February 7, 2013 On this day in history in the NCHSAA, Emily Allen of Cornelius W.A. Hough won two individual events and swam anchor on two winning relay teams to lift Hough to the NCHSAA state 4-A women’s swimming and diving team championship at the Triangle Aquatics Center in Cary. …
ASSOCIATION SPOTLIGHT: BLACK HISTORY MONTH During the month of February, in honor of Black History Month, the NCHSAA website will feature information about African-Americans who have made major contributions to the great tradition of high school sports in our state. We hope you find these both entertaining and informative. BILL CARVER …
February 6, 2012 On this day in history in the NCHSAA, the North Carolina High School Athletic Association announced a partnership has produced a series of four sixty-second public service announcements for radio. The PSAs were distributed to every radio station in the state of North Carolina as a result of a partnership with…
Championships in four classifications will be decided Saturday in the North Carolina High School Athletic Association’s 26th annual dual team wrestling championships. The championships are held on high school campuses, alternating years between Eastern and Western sites for the finals. All of the teams advancing…
During the month of February, in honor of Black History Month, the NCHSAA website will feature information about African-Americans who have made major contributions to the great tradition of high school sports in our state. We hope you find these both entertaining and informative. RICHARD HICKS Richard Hicks…
WENTWORTH–Rockingham County High School has named Derrick Minor as its new head football coach, according to media reports including HighSchoolOT.com. Minor has been the head coach at Princeton High for the past three years and helped the Bulldogs become a 1-A power. This year Princeton went to the third round of…
4 QUESTIONS: A CONVERSATION WITH…LANGSTON WERTZ Langston Wertz is a columnist and long-time sports writer at The Charlotte Observer. He has been with the Observer for more than 25 years, and part of his beat has always been high school athletics during his tenure there. He also has covered college sports, professional sports, golf and…
February 4, 1966 On this day in history in the NCHSAA, Durham's Hillside High School set a single-game men's basketball scoring record by rolling past Rocky Mount Booker T. Washington by a score of 147-57. The record-breaking Hornet team became known as the "Pony Express." Those schools were members of the old North Carolina…
ASSOCIATION SPOTLIGHT: BLACK HISTORY MONTH During the month of February, in honor of Black History Month, the NCHSAA website will feature information about African-Americans who have made major contributions to the great tradition of high school sports in our state. We hope you find these both entertaining and informative. DAVID LEE LASH David…
FAYETTEVILLE–Westover High School named its gymnasium in honor of former girls' basketball coach Gene Arrington on Friday night. The ceremony took place between the varsity girls and varsity boys basketball games with Gray's Creek. Arrington retired as Westover coach just before the start of the 2013 school year because…
