CHAPEL HILL– The North Carolina High School Athletic Association announced today that 127 member schools in the NCHSAA were ejection free in their athletic contests during the 2011-12 school year. 

The schools were recognized at the Association’s recently completed regional meetings held across the state. The 127 schools represent 32.6 percent of the NCHSAA’s member schools, based on the 390 member schools last year.

Two schools, including Jones Senior and Gray Stone Day in Misenheimer, completed their fifth consecutive year without an ejection in any sports.

The guidelines record ejections for unsportsmanlike acts such as fighting, taunting, profanity, obscene gestures or disrespectfully addressing or contacting officials.

The 2006-07 academic year was the best since the NCHSAA starting tracking ejections in 1997, with 202 schools earning ejection free status, which represented 54.8 percent of the member schools in that year. There were 113 ejection free schools in 2010-11, or 29 percent of the membership.

“We are proud that 127 schools were ejection free last year,” said NCHSAA commissioner Davis Whitfield, “but we have to continue to make sportsmanship a priority and not lose focus until all member schools are also ejection free.”

All schools with no ejections for the year received a certificate of recognition at the recently completed NCHSAA regional meetings across the state. North Carolina Farm Bureau sponsors the program as part of its initiative with the NCHSAA.

 

Cape Hatteras

Mattamuskeet

Northeastern

Northside (Beaufort)

Ocracoke

Perquimans

South Creek

Southside

Washington

Ashley

Croatan

Heide Trask

Hobbton

Jones*

Lakewood

Midway

North Brunswick

North Duplin

North Lenoir

Rosewood

South Lenoir

White Oak

Cardinal Gibbons

Corinth Holders

Durham School of the Arts

Eastern NC School for the Deaf

Fike

Franklin Academy

Franklinton

Hunt

Kestrel Heights

Leesville Road

Louisburg

North Johnston

Princeton

Raleigh Charter

Rocky Mount

Rocky Mount Preparatory

Roxboro Community

Southeast Halifax

Southern Durham

Southern Nash

Southwest Edgecombe

Voyager Academy

Warren County

East Bladen

Lee County

North Moore

Pine Forest

Scotland

South Robeson

Triton

West Bladen

West Montgomery

Western Harnett

Andrews, T.W.

Asheboro

Atkins

Bishop McGuinness

Central Davidson

Chatham Central

Cummings

East Forsyth

Glenn, Robert B.

Graham  

Jordan-Matthews

North Stokes

Northern Guilford

Providence Grove

River Mill Academy

Smith, Ben L.

South Davidson

West Forsyth

Western Alamance

Wheatmore

Winston-Salem Preparatory

Anson Senior

Ashbrook

Berry Academy, Phillip O. 

Brown, A.L.

Butler

Charlotte Catholic

Cherryville

Cuthbertson

East Mecklenburg

Gray Stone Day*

Harding University

Hickory Ridge

Hopewell

Hough

Kings Mountain

Lincoln Charter

North Stanly

Olympic

Porter Ridge

Providence

Salisbury

South Stanly

Sun Valley

Weddington

West Charlotte

West Lincoln

Bandys

Challenger Early College

Mount Airy

NC School for the Deaf

North Surry

Pine Lake Preparatory

Statesville

Watauga

West Iredell

Andrews

East Henderson

East Rutherford

Hayesville

Hendersonville

Hiwassee Dam

McDowell

Mitchell

Mountain Heritage

Nantahala

North Henderson

Owen, Charles D.

Polk County

A.C. Reynolds

Robbinsville

Smoky Mountain

*5th Consecutive Ejection-free Year Recipient