East Wins One, Ties One In NCCA Soccer All-Star Games GREENSBORO – The East scored a narrow 2-1 victory over the West in the North Carolina Coaches Association men’s all-star soccer game on Tuesday night at the UNC Greensboro Soccer Stadium. The East win came after the two women’s teams battled to a…
MOORESVILLE – A veteran athletic director has announced his retirement. Steve Rankin, currently athletic director at Lake Norman High School in Iredell County, has announced his retirement effective September 1. He will continue to work at the school until that date. Rankin has been employed by the Iredell-Statesville system for many years…
EAST SWEEPS NCCA BASKETBALL ALL-STAR GAMES GREENSBORO—The East took both ends of the North Carolina Coaches Association all-star basketball doubleheader at the Greensboro Coliseum on Monday night. The East All-Stars captured the women’s game 67-60, and then in the men’s contest the East rolled to a convincing 107-84 triumph. Harnett Central’s DeAnneisha Jackson was selected…
SYLVA—A Smoky Mountain High School baseball pitcher had one of the most memorable seasons in recent memory and has earned a performance listing in the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Record Book. Mark Thompson of Smoky Mountain recorded 15 pitching victories against a single loss as his team advanced the whole way…
July 21, 2012 On this day in history in the NCHSAA, Lexi Davis of Porter Ridge High School in Indian Trail was named the ESPNHS National Softball Player of the Year. Davis was 33-1 as a pitcher for Porter Ridge and led her team to the North Carolina High School Athletic Association state 4-A softball…
TRINITY—Wheatmore High School has announced a couple of changes in its athletic department, according to a report in the High Point Enterprise. Rick Halo has been named as the school’s new athletic director and Pete Kilcullen has been selected as the new women’s varsity basketball coach. Halo replaces veteran Eugene Everhart, who…
Merritt Wilkinson of Western Alamance High School had an outstanding softball season as a senior in the spring, and her performance enables her to have several listings in the North Carolina High School Athletic Association on-line record book. Wilkinson batted .616 for the season, collecting 45 hits in 73 official at-bats, and had 15 doubles…
RALEIGH—Enloe High School has announced that Patrick Paye is the school’s new athletic director and will also assume the duties as head men’s basketball coach, according to various media reports including HighSchoolOT.com. Paye comes to Enloe from Knightdale and before that served as an assistant basketball coach at Elizabeth City State University. He…
Chris Munnelly, who just completed an excellent career with the University of North Carolina Tar Heel baseball program, has embarked upon his professional baseball career. Munnelly, who worked for a year in the North Carolina High School Athletic Association offices as an intern while in school at UNC, signed with the Houston Astros…
GREENSBORO—Page High School will have a new softball coach during the spring of 2014, but his name might ring a bell with football fans. Ethan Albright, who played for 16 years in the National Football League after a standout career at Grimsley and the University of North Carolina, will serve as the head…
