Alexander Central High School head softball coach Monte Sherrill has been named the National Softball Coach of the Year by MaxPreps. Sherrill led his team to a perfect 35-0 record and the North Carolina High School Athletic Association state 4-A softball championship. Alexander Cetnral was actually ranked second nationally to Amador…
MORGANTON– Brandon Allen is leaving Tuscola High School to take over as head football coach at Freedom High in Morganton, according to various media reports including the Asheville Citizen-Times. Allen was the head coach at North Buncombe in 2011 and then guided the Tuscola program for the next two seasons. Allen…
CHAPEL HILL – Kayla Rae Montgomery of Mount Tabor High School in Winston-Salem and Christian Sidney Miles of Walter Williams High in Burlington have been named winners of the annual Jerry McGee Endowed Scholarships awarded by the North Carolina High School Athletic Association. The two outstanding student-athletes…
GARNER—A member of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame has earned a prestigious community service honor from his hometown. Tim Stevens, a member of both the NCHSAA and the National High School Hall of Fame and the long-time prep editor of the Raleigh News and Observer, will…
CHICAGO — Trentavis Friday of Cherryville High School has added another prestigious award, this one national, to his long list of accomplishments. Friday has been named as the Gatorade National Boys Track and Field Athlete for 2013-14. He was earlier named the North Carolina Athlete of the Year in the sport….
CARY—John D’Agostin has been named as the women’s basketball coach at Green Hope High School, according to various media reports including HighSchoolOT.com. D’Agostin has previously been an assistant basketball coach at both Cary and Green Hope. He will take over for Mike Robinson. The new Green Hope coach began his coaching…
RED SPRINGS—Former Red Springs High School assistant coach Ron Cook is returning to Red Springs as head football coach, according to a report in the Robesonian. Cook was the defensive coordinator at Lumberton High School last year and then also served as the interim head coach for the final four weeks of…
July 15, 1996 On this day in history in the NCHSAA, Glaxo Wellcome announced a gift of $100,000 to the North Carolina High School Athletic Association for the NCHSAA Hall of Fame. The donation, made over a four-year period, enabled the Association to create a special endowment to subsidize the activities of the Hall…
CHICAGO — In its 29th year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, The Gatorade Company, in collaboration with USA TODAY High School Sports, has announced Sydnei Murphy of Apex High School as its 2013-14 Gatorade North Carolina Girls Track & Field Athlete of the Year. Murphy is the first Gatorade North…
July 13, 2010 On this day in history in the NCHSAA, legendary coach and administrator Dave Harris of Charlotte died just a few days short of his 86th birthday. A graduate of Statesville High School and then of Wake Forest University in 1946, where he played in the first Gator Bowl, Harris is one…
