Millbrook, Jones Senior To ReceiveMajor Awards At Annual Meeting CHAPEL HILL – Two major awards will be presented to schools at the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Annual Meeting on Thursday at the Smith Center on the University of North Carolina campus. Millbrook High School in Raleigh is the seventh annual winner of the…
HICKORY — Andy Poplin has been named by the Hickory Public Schools Board of Education to serve as the new men’s head basketball coach for Hickory High School, according to a press release by the school system.. Poplin’s record is among the most notable among his peer. While serving as the head men’s basketball coach…
April 30, 2012 On this day in history in the NCHSAA, Takeisha J. Smith of St. Pauls High School and Jaret Grady of South Lenoir High School were named winners of the third annual Charles Adams Endowed Scholarships awarded by the North Carolina High School Athletic Association. The scholarships are made possible through the generosity…
AAA SCHOLAR-ATHLETE WINNERS NAMED BY NORTH CAROLINA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION CHAPEL HILL—Over 28,000 individual awards have been given by the North Carolina High School Athletic Association to student-athletes for their achievements in the classroom as well as on the playing court or athletic field. The NCHSAA made the awards in its AAA Scholar-Athlete program,…
INDIANAPOLIS— High school swimmers in the breaststroke event will now be permitted to execute a single butterfly kick on the start or turn at any time prior to the first breaststroke kick. “It was extremely difficult for officials to observe and consistently judge the initiation of the arm stroke on the start and turns,” said…
HICKORY—St. Stephens High School in Catawba County has named Wayne Hicks as its new head football coach, according to various media reports including the Hickory Daily Record. Hicks has been the defensive coordinator at Hickory High for the last five seasons and prior to that was head football coach at Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory from…
April 29, 2012 On this day in history in the NCHSAA, James Kornegay of North Duplin High School was named the 2012 winner of the Gainey Student Scholarship Award. The Gainey Student Scholarship Awards are available to NCHSAA member schools in counties having a poverty rate of 20 percent or more for children 17 and…
CLINTON, NORTHEAST GUILFORD STUDENTS EARNNCHSAA’S SEVENTH ANNUAL PAT GAINEY STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS CHAPEL HILL—The North Carolina High School Athletic Association announced today the winners of a special award established in the name of the late Pat Gainey. Jamison Kidd of Clinton High School and Jacob Watkins of Northeast Guilford High School have been named…
WEST TO LEAVE REAGAN FOR FORSYTH COUNTRY DAY WINSTON-SALEM—The Winston-Salem Journal has reported that Howard West is leaving Reagan High School to become the head men’s basketball coach at Forsyth Country Day. West, who is age 66, is the winningest active coach in North Carolina with 715 victories to his credit. He coached for 17…
TROUTMAN—South Iredell High School has finally had its long winning streak in Catawba Valley Athletic Conference women’s soccer play snapped on Thursday night. South Iredell’s string of CVAC victories was finally stopped at 53 after almost four years of play, as South fell to Newton-Conover 1-0 in action at South Iredell. Kara Schell of Newton-Conover…
