MORGANTON—Blair Hardin is leaving Freedom High School as head football coach after one year. Hardin, who went to Freedom after a successful tenure at Porter Ridge, has been named the new head football coach and assistant athletic director at North Myrtle Beach (SC) High School, according to a report in…
CONCORD—Jay Robinson High School has named Lamar Batts, Sr., as its new head basketball coach, according to various media reports including the Concord-Kannapolis Independent Tribune. Batts will replace former head coach Joe Pike and is only the second men’s basketball coach in the school’s 13-year history. He is a 2001…
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 Braxton Davidson of T.C. Roberson as its 2013-14 Gatorade North Carolina Baseball Player of the Year. Davidson is the third Gatorade North Carolina Baseball Player of the Year to…
The 12th Annual Bill Dooley Chapter Pigskin Preview, the official kickoff to the upcoming college football season, is set for July 24, 2014 at the Embassy Suites (201 Harrison Oaks Blvd) located off I-40 on Harrison Ave. in Cary. Last year a record crowd of 420 attended the luncheon. This year's panel of head coaches will include…
WINSTON-SALEM—Derrick Speas has resigned as the track and field coach at Winston-Salem Preparatory Academy, according to a report in the Winston-Salem Journal. Speas served in that capacity for seven years, coaching Winston-Salem Prep to a couple of NCHSAA 1-A team championships and a couple of runner-up finishes. The W-S Prep women’s team was third in…
MOORESVILLE—Brett Hayford has been named as the new head football coach at Pine Lake Preparatory, according to a report in the Mooresville Tribune. Hayford has been a long-time Davidson College assistant football coach, ever since he had played football and baseball at Davidson and graduated from there in 1993. Among Hayford’s duties at Davidson were…
June 25, 2013 On this day in history in the NCHSAA, associate commissioner Rick Strunk of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association received the National Federation Citation award at the 94th annual NFHS Summer Meeting in Denver, Colorado. The NFHS Citation is one of the most highly regarded achievements in high school athletics and…
CHAPEL HILL—A coach with 20 years of collegiate coaching experience will take over the helm of the Chapel Hill High School volleyball program. Jody Brown, who served as the head coach at Florida Atlantic University from 1995 through the 2012 season, has been named the new head coach at Chapel Hill, according to various media…
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 Vada Sherrill of Alexander Central High School as its 2013-14 Gatorade North Carolina Softball Player of the Year. Sherrill is the second Gatorade North Carolina Softball Player of the…
INDIANAPOLIS— The 95th annual National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) Summer Meeting will be held June 28-July 2 at the Boston Marriott Copley Place in Boston, Massachusetts. The NFHS is the national leadership organization for high school athletic and performing arts activities and is composed of state high school associations…
