Lawrence Dunn enjoyed an excellent coaching career in basketball and baseball as well as track and cross country at a couple of schools in Wake County. A graduate of Berry O’Kelly High and then North Carolina A&T State University, where he was an outstanding basketball player, Dunn is probably best remembered for his success coaching basketball.
Green Hope men repeat while Leesville Road women stop Hough streak in record-shattering meet CARY, NC – The North Carolina High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA) 4A Swimming and Diving Championships wrapped up a fast day of action with multiple state records falling and a new champion on the women’s side. Leesville Road stopped Hough’s streak…
A native of Durham, Willie Bradshaw has devoted a lifetime of service to his city and his alma mater. Bradshaw was an outstanding athlete at Hillside High School in Durham and played on the 1943 football team that was unbeaten, untied and unscored upon. He went on to North Carolina College, now North Carolina Central University, and was a great athlete there, joining the NCCU Athletic Hall of Fame in 1985. He coached at I.E. Johnson in Laurinburg, Lincoln High in Chapel Hill, and at Dudley in Greensboro before going to Hillside in 1963. He served as a coach and athletic director there for 15 years, and then was the athletic director for the Durham City School system, becoming the first black city/county athletic director, until 1991.
The NCHSAA is proud of the many women pioneers that helped shaped high school athletics through the years. There are currently 21 members of the NCHSAA Hall of Fame who are female and made significant contributions to high school athletics. These women are considered among those "who have done the most for high school athletics…
Que Tucker has enjoyed an outstanding career at the North Carolina High School Athletic Association after successful stints coaching at the high school and college levels. A graduate of Stoneville High, she attended Mars Hill College, where she was an outstanding athlete and graduated in 1974. Tucker came to the NCHSAA in 1991 after several years as an assistant women’s basketball coach at N.C. State under Kay Yow. She is currently deputy commissioner of the NCHSAA, where she oversees the entire NCHSAA sports program, after helping to start the Association’s acclaimed Student Services program.
The North Carolina High School Athletic Association is proud of the significant impacts made on the Association by the many women who have dedicated their lives to teaching, coaching and organizing high school athletics across the state. Reflecting on the impact of these women, we wanted to recognize females in Athletic Administrator roles across our…
CHAPEL HILL— Amber Parker from Parkwood High School and Jefferson Boaz from East Surry High School have been named recipients of the NCHSAA Performance of the Week awards. Each week two athletes in North Carolina High School Athletic Association competition are selected for this award from nominations received from media and school administrators. Parker, a…
One of the well-known schools which was a member of the old North Carolina High School Athletic Conference was Ridgeview High School of Hickory.
The late Dr. Wiley “Army” Armstrong was one of the most influential figures in high school athletics in the state for many years as he served as the executive director of the North Carolina High School Athletic Conference (NCHSAC), the organization for black high schools.
WINSTON-SALEM – The North Carolina High School Athletic Association, in conjunction with the North Carolina Chapter of U.S.A. Wrestling, hosted the inaugural NCHSAA Women’s Wrestling Invitational Tournament in Winston-Salem this morning and afternoon. The field featured 87 participants in 11 weight divisions. In December, the NCHSAA Board of Directors unanimously elected to hold the tournament…
