–Roberson & Bill Rucker honored today by NCHSAA
6 October 2007CHAPEL HILL - October 6, 2007 - The North Carolina High School Athletic Association was recognized by the University of North Carolina today at Kenan Stadium. At the half-time of today’s North Carolina-Miami football game, which Carolina won 33-27, the 23rd annual NCHSAA Daywas observed. The university actually spearheaded the founding of the NCHSAA in 1913.
The winners of the Wachovia Cup for the 2006-07 academic year, symbolic of the best overall interscholastic sports program in the state, were honored.
The winners include Kernersville Bishop McGuinness in the 1-A classification; Cardinal Gibbons of Raleigh among 2-A schools;
T C Roberson among 3-A schools for the third consecutive year; and Providence High School of Charlotte in the 4-A class, for the seventh time in school history.
In addition, the newest members of the NCHSAA Hall of Fame were recognized. Bill Rucker of Black Mountain , one of the state’s most successful women’s basketball coaches was among them; Stuart Allen, whose teams won 11 NCHSAA track championships at Myers Park; Daryl Barnes, former head football coach at Richmond Senior who won five state football crowns there; long-time coach and administrator Bob Brooks of Elizabeth City; coach, administrator and game official Bill
Carver of Fayetteville; sports medicine pioneer Elton Hawley, formerly of Charlotte; outstanding baseball coach Fred Lanford from Hudson; ; and long-time Chatham Central baseball coach Ronald Scott have been chosen as the 21st group of inductees to join the prestigious hall.
That brings to 110 the number enshrined. These eight will formally be inducted into the NCHSAA Hall of Fame next spring during the Hall of Fame annual banquet and induction ceremonies at the Watts Alumni Center in Chapel Hill.
"We are certainly appreciative of the university and it’s willingness to recognize the North Carolina High School Athletic Association on this special occasion," says Charlie Adams, executive director of the NCHSAA.
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