WINSTON-SALEM —West Forsyth has hired two coaches and lost one, and R.J. Reynolds has filled a vacancy on its staff, according to the Winston-Salem Journal. West Forsyth has hired Karen Duncan and Lindsay Deibler as varsity tennis coaches, athletic director T.R. Richards of West said. Reynolds has named Franny Apel to coach girls soccer, according…
Franklin Lowery has resigned as East Lincoln High School varsity women’s basketball coach to take the same job at Lincoln Charter, according to the Gaston Gazette. A 1975 East Lincoln graduate, Lowery led his alma mater to a 23-6 record and second-place finish in the Southern Piedmont Conference two season ago. During the 2010-11 campaign,…
CHAPEL HILL— Brooks Matthews, principal of Triton High School in Erwin, will serve as president of the North Carolina High School Board of Directors for the 2011-12 academic year. Allison Sholar, who will be moving from the Pender County schools as superintendent to Currituck County, will be the immediate past president….
SCOTLAND BASEBALL STAR TO PLAY IN UNDER ARMOUR ALL AMERICAN GAME LAURINBURG – Scotland High School baseball standout Curt Britt has been chosen to play in the 2011 Under Armour All-America Baseball Game. The contest is scheduled Aug. 13 at the Chicago Cubs’ famed Wrigley Field. Britt was selected from a field of more than…
BURLINGTON— Superintendent Lillie Cox of the Alamance-Burlington School System has named two high school principals to their posts for the 2011-12 academic year. According to the Burlington Times-News, Charlotte Holmes will be the principal at Graham and Joe Ferrell will assume those duties at Williams. Holmes was an assistant principal at Graham from 2001 to…
Every year since 1997, the Carolina Panthers have honored high school football coaches through the Coach of the Week program. Members of the media, principals and athletic directors in North and South Carolina are encouraged to nominate varsity coaches in their area. The Panthers will select a coach for each week of the high school…
NCHSAA RECORD BOOK The North Carolina High School Athletic Association Record Book is one of the most comprehensive in the nation and one of the most visited parts of the NCHSAA website. The Record Book chronicles student-athlete achievements in a variety of sports and is now exclusively on line. The book was begun in 1987…
HAMPSTEAD — Topsail High School athletic director B.J. Horne has announced the hiring of Ryan Morris as the new head baseball coach, according to the Wilmington Star-News. Morris, 36, has more than 10 years of coaching experience, having served in both the high school and collegiate coaching ranks. He played collegiate baseball for Bridgewater and…
BESSEMER CITY HAS NEW ATHLETIC DIRECTOR , BASEBALL COACH BESSEMER CITY — Bessemer City High School has announced the hiring of Brandon Scott as its athletic director and baseball coach, according to the Gaston Gazette. Scott, 30, had served as head baseball coach at Patton High School in Morganton since the 2007-08 school year but…
Eight Named To Join NCHSAA Hall of Fame CHAPEL HILL—Eight more outstanding individuals in the annals of state prep athletics have been selected for induction into the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame. Rosalie Barden of Wilson, Sheila Boles of Wilmington, Jimmy Fleming of Creedmoor, John Frye of Vass, Jerry Johnson of…
