NORTH CAROLINA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION BULLETIN VOL. 54, NO. 4 SUMMER 2002 Northern Durham’s Davis, DSA’s Armwood Are Named NCHSAA Athletes Of The Year At 2002 Annual Meeting CHAPEL HILL—Katrelle Armwood of the Durham School of the the former Goldsboro High principal and president of the NCHSAA Arts and A.J. Davis of Northern Durham High School have been who died unexpectedly in 1988. named winners of the 2002 Athlete of the Year awards by the North “We congratulate these fine student-athletes on their great Carolina High School Athletic Association. achievements during their high school careers,” said Charlie These are the top athletic awards given by the NCHSAA to honor Adams, executive director of the NCHSAA. “Both Katrelle and A.J. the most outstanding male and female high school athletes in the have tremendously impressive credentials along the lines of the pre- state. They were presented at the Dean Smith Center on the vious outstanding winners of this award. We certainly wish them University of North Carolina campus during the NCHSAA’s Annual the best in the future.” It is the first time both athletes are from the Meeting. same school system. Both Armwood and Davis were nominated and selected by a Davis has been among the nation’s top performers in both foot- special panel of media representatives from across the state. They ball and track during his high school career. He was listed as one were each presented with the Pat Best Memorial Trophy, named for of the top 25 players in the country by USA Today and played in both the Shrine Bowl and the U.S Army All-American Bowl. He was a four-year varsity player for the perennially strong Northern NCHSAA ATHLETES OF THE YEAR Durham program, playing both wide receiver and cornerback. Winners of the Pat Best Memorial Trophy He has captured a total of nine individual NCHSAA champi- onships in track, both indoor and outdoor. He was the Most 1985-86 Pam Doggett, Dudley Valuable Performer in the 2002 indoor championships and won two Patrick Lennon, Whiteville titles in last year’s outdoor meet. Davis has won the long jump, 1986-87 Andrea Stinson, North Mecklenburg triple jump and high jump state championships during his prep Robert Siler, Jordan-Matthews career. He will be attending North Carolina State University on a 1987-88 LeAnn Kennedy, Trinity football scholarship. Chester McGlockton, Whiteville Armwood is a three-sport star at Durham School of the Arts. 1988-89 Danyel Parker, Clinton She was the Most Valuable Player in the NCHSAA state 1-A volley- Ethan Albright, Grimsley ball championships as she led her team to the state title and was 1989-90 Karen Davis, Forbush Player of the Year in that sport in the Tar Roanoke Conference. In David Inman, Terry Sanford basketball, she averaged 14 points, nine rebounds, 2.8 assists and 1990-91 Christy Cagle, Hayesville 2.8 steals and was runner-up for conference player of the year in Mike Kendall, Albemarle women’s basketball. In outdoor track, Armwood has won several state champi- 1991-92 Wendy Palmer, Person onships during her career, including winning the triple jump, 300 Rusty LaRue, Northwest Guilford meter intermediate hurdles, 100 meter high hurdles and long jump, 1992-93 Holly Hill, Southwestern Randolph and has been runner-up in an event on six other occasions. In Tyrone Westmoreland, South Iredell addition, Armwood carries a brilliant 4.302 grade point average. 1993-94 Jamie Parsons, Millbrook Brian Roseboro, T.Wingate Andrews 1994-95 Aedrin Murray, Chatham Central Na Brown, Reidsville 1995-96 Shea Ralph, Terry Sanford Titcus Pettigrew, West Forsyth 2002 NCHSAA 1996-97 Jackie Houston, Kings Mountain Athletes of the Tyrell Godwin, East Bladen Year A.J. Davis 1997-98 Clifeteana McKiver, East Duplin and Katrelle Julius Peppers, Southern Nash Armwood. 1998-99 Anna Tharrington, Southern Nash (NCHSAA Photo Nick Maddox, A.L. Brown by John Bell) 1999-2000 Courtney Willis, Terry Sanford Manny DeShauteurs, Brevard 2000-01 Molly Pyles, Hendersonville Derrele Mitchell, R.J. Reynolds 2001-02 Katrelle Armwood, Durham School of Arts A.J. Davis, Northern Durham RECORD BREAKERS? Don’t forget, if you have any potential state or national listings for the record book, there is a form in the current edition of the FormsBook to send that information for consideration. Help us to make our state and national books as inclusive and complete as pos- 2 sible! Any questions call Rick Strunk at (919) 962-7786. And don’t forget to check the latest ver- NCHSAA BULLETIN sion of the state record book on line. NCHSAA Board Of Directors Makes Major Changes CHAPEL HILL—The North Carolina High School Athletic Association Board of Directors concluded its spring meeting, one that executive director Charlie Adams noted was “monumental” due a number of important issues that were addressed. The Board took the action to subdivide the football playoffs for 2-A, 3-A and 4-A in similar fashion to what was done in the 1- A classification for the 2001 football sea- son. The subdivision means that 64 teams will qualify in football in each of those classes and then will be ranked largest to smallest by average daily membership, to be divided in half. The 32 larger schools will play in the “AA” portion of the playoffs (4-AA, 3-AA, 2-AA, with more A’s in high school athletic terminology meaning larger, such as 4-A schools being larger than 3-A schools), while the 32 smaller schools will Board Members Vote On Issues At Meeting play in the “A” portion (4-A, 3-A and 2-A). Those schools will then be divided East and West and then Tanglewood in Winston-Salem from McAlpine Park in Charlotte seeded according to the NCHSAA procedure for seeding. The for the next three years. Wrestling will take place at Lawrence total subdivision concept, which the 1-A schools will follow for Joel Coliseum in Winston-Salem for the next three years after a second year in the fall of 2002, will be evaluated next year. a run at Cricket Arena in Charlotte. In addition, a three-year The eight state football championships also necessitated contract has been confirmed for all of the state track and field some adjustment in the sites for those finals. The Board outdoor championships to take place at the Paul Derr Track on approved, for 2002, the following schedule: the 4-A, 1-AA and the N.C. State campus. 1-A finals will be held at Kenan Stadium in Chapel Hill, while —contracts have been approved to keep the Eastern the 4-AA, 3-A and 3-AA will be played at Carter-Finley Stadium Regional basketball tournament in Greenville and the Western in Raleigh. The 2-A and 2-AA games will be slated for Groves Regionals in the Hickory area through 2005. Stadium in Wake Forest, contingent upon finalizing funding. —starting with the 2005 season, football teams will have 11 Sites will rotate each year, if the subdivision continues to be weeks to play 11 games, which would include 10 regular sea- done. All championship games will be played on December 14 son games and the optional Endowment game, rather than the this year. current schedule which gives an additional week to play 11 games. In other actions, the Board of Directors decided the following: —starting with the 2005-2006 academic year, which will be —an adjustment was made in the NCHSAA’s off-season the initial year of another four-year realignment, the length of skill development policies for football, to take effect next year. the standard game contracts required in football and basket- Coaches will be able to work with up to 21 athletes in a single ball will be just two years. Schools currently have an option of day, in skill development sessions. Helmets and shoulder pads two or four-year contracts, but with the number of new schools will be required for these, with no body-to-body contact opening it makes it very difficult to create schedules for them allowed. The Board emphasized that the policy still means that if all the other schools are locked into four-year contracts. sessions “must be voluntary, and that “at no time during the —the cost of the mandatory catastrophic insurance that is school year may any off-season team gather with all positions carried for all student-athletes in the NCHSAA program is represented. Any team practice or game environment created going up from $3.50 to $3.75 per individual. in an off-season skill development session is prohibited during —updated the levels of fines as listed in the Penalty Code, the 180-day school calendar. the first revision of the fines in almost 20 years. —starting with the 2003 basketball championships, four —made a series of editorial adjustments in some of the lan- games (two men’s and two women’s) will be played at the Smith guage about ineligible players based on recommendations from Center in Chapel Hill and the other four at the Entertainment legal counsel. and Sports Arena in Raleigh. The 4-A and 2-A finals will be —made an adjustment in the sportsmanship policy about played at the Smith Center and the 1-A and 3-A championships ejections so that five cumulative yellow cards will considered at the ESA for 2003, and those championships will rotate an ejection, subject to the NCHSAA penalty of sitting out between those two facilities for the current realignment period. games; red cards which are not sportsmanship ejections or —the soccer field for playoffs in each classification will red-yellows will be considered two yellows for these purposes, move from 32 to 48 teams, using the predetermined brackets and schools will be responsible for tracking these.