MOUNT AIRY— Mount Airy High School has named Levi Goins as its new head basketball coach, according to the Winston-Salem Journal. Goins is no stranger to Mount Airy, as he was a starter when the Granite Bears won the North Carolina High School Athletic Association state championship in 2002. He scored 11 points in the…
CHAPEL HILL— Davis Whitfield, commissioner of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association, announced today the appointment of two new members to the NCHSAA Board of Directors. The interim appointments were approved by the Nominating Committee of the NCHSAA due to retirements of Board members and are for one year. Teresa Evans,…
BURLINGTON— Walter Williams High School has announced its new men’s basketball coach, according to the Burlington Times-News. Former Northern Guilford coach Ryan Freeman will take over the reins at Williams. Freeman has coached at both Northern Guilford and New Bern, and his teams have compiled a record of 90-38 overall. Freeman will take over from…
GREENSBORO— Grimsley High School has named Thomas Griffis as its new men’s head basketball coach, according to reports in the Greensboro News and Record. Griffis played collegiately at North Carolina A&T after his graduation from Athens Drive High School in Raleigh. He has previously coached at Upper Room Christian Academy at the middle school leve,…
GREENSBORO— Former Dudley assistant coach Derrick Partee has been named as the new men’s head basketball coach at Greensboro’s Ben Smith High School. Partee was an assistant coach for 13 seasons under veteran Dudley coach David Price. He will take over the Smith helm for Brian Jones. The 34-year-old Partee played four years at Dudley…
ASSOCIATION SPOTLIGHT: highlighting special programs of the NCHSAA WELLS FARGO CUP The Wells Fargo Cup has become the symbol of overall sports excellence among high schools in North Carolina. 

 Since 1979 the Cup has gone to the schools that have the best overall interscholastic sports programs in each of the four classifications of competition:…
New content has been posted to the NFHS Coaching Today site. Here’s the link to that publication: http://www.nfhs.org/CoachingToday/
CHARLOTTE— West Charlotte High School has named a new principal for the 2012-13 academic year. John Wall Jr., will take over the helm at West Charlotte, according to reports in the Charlotte Observer. He was principal last year at Southeast Raleigh. Prior to his year at Southeast Raleigh, he had been a principal at the…
NFHS Offers Free Online Courses to Prevent Heat Illness/Stroke and Recognize Concussions INDIANAPOLIS— As fall sports practices begin across the country this month, the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) is re-emphasizing the importance of risk minimization for high school student-atheltes, specifically through two of its free on-line courses: “Concussion in Sports–What You…
August 1, 1984 On this day in history in the NCHSAA, Dick Knox joined the staff of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association as assistant executive director and supervisor of officials after 21 years as a teacher and coach in various North Carolina public schools. He replaced Charlie Adams, who became executive director.
