SWAIN COUNTY NAMES NEW FOOTBALL COACH BRYSON CITY—Swain County High School has named its new head football coach, according to the Asheville Citizen-Times. Neil Blankenship, long-time assistant coach, has been elevated to the head job, taking the place of Sam Pattillo. Blankenship, a 1988 graduate of Swain, has been at the school for 19 years…
BUTLER DREAM TEAM EXCELS, FEATURED IN TELEVISION SEGMENT IN CHARLOTTE CHARLOTTE– The Butler High School Dream Team has been featured in a special television segment in Charlotte, and the story is posted on the NCHSAA web site. The Dream Team placed 1200 luminaries around the front of Butler High School, representing 1200 lives lost…
MARK LITTLE HEADED TO WEST COLUMBUS West Stanly head football coach Mark Little is headed to Columbus County to become the head coach at West Columbus, according to the Stanly News and Press. Little has been a head coach for 26 seasons and has compiled an overall career mark of 164-134, including 93-96 at West…
CROCKER IS NEW FOOTBALL COACH AT PANTHER CREEK Sean Crocker has been announced as the new head football coach at Panther Creek High School, according to multiple media outlets including the Raleigh News and Observer. Crocker will leave Middle Creek to become the Catamounts’ third head football coach. He succeeds Wayne Bragg, who left Panther…
WHITEVILLE — Luke Little will be the new head football coach at Whiteville High School, according to the Stanly News and Press. Little, who is from the Whiteville area, has been the head coach at South Stanly for the last five years and served as an assistant coach at Whiteville under his father Mark for…
DINWIDDIE HEADED TO NORTH HENDERSON AFTER WAKEFIELD STINT HENDERSONVILLE— North Henderson High School has named Jason Dinwiddie as its new head football coach, according to the Hendersonville Daily News. Dinwiddie had recently resigned as the head football coach Wakefield High in Raleigh. Dinwiddie, 35, replaces Doug Justice, who resigned at the end of the 2011…
APEX — Joe Kilby is the new head football coach at Apex High School, leaving his post at Cedar Ridge in Hillsborough, according to several media reports, including the Raleigh News and Observer. Kilby posted a record of 15-11 in his two seasons at the Cedar Ridge helm and led the Red Wolves to the…
GASTON COUNTY COACH HITS MILESTONE GASTONIA— A Gaston County basketball coach has achieved a coaching milestone, according to the Gaston Gazette. Butch Blaylock, the head men’s basketball coach at Highland Tech, earned his 300th career coaching victory last week when his Rams downed East Lincoln. According to the Gazette, Blalock became the eighth basketball coach…
A North Carolina high school softball team is the subject of a feature in a national magazine. The East Surry softball team was recognized for great community service in the November 2011 issue of High School Today, a publication of the National Federation of State High School Associations. The feature appears in a section entitled…
CHARLOTTE— Former Winston-Salem Carver football coach Keith Wilkes is now the new head coach at Vance High School in Charlotte, according to the Charlotte Observer. Wilkes, 48, is leaving a job at an Atlanta-area elementary school. From 1992 to 2007, his Carver teams were 139-62-1 with 11 conference titles and state championships in 1998 and…
