The N.C. High School Athletic Association announced the new playoff structure for the 2025-2026 school year as it expands from four to eight classes. The plan also includes a massive expansion in the number of teams that will qualify for the postseason. Please click here for more.
Category Archives: High School Sports
Watch these NC high school basketball alums in the men’s NCAA tournament
A total of 43 NCAA men’s basketball athletes who made this year’s tournament played at North Carolina high schools. Please click here for more.
The best options to balance NCHSAA’s charter, parochial, and public schools
Columnist J. Mike Blake writees that not only are North Carolina parochial and charter schools are winning a smaller share of titles over the last three years of this current period than the one that came before it — but there’s also greater parity among the public schools that win. Please click here for more.
adds six high school signees to 2025 class
Campbell rounded out its 2025 high school signing class on Wednesday, inking six more future Fighting Camels.Of the six additions joining second year head coach Braxton Harris’ squad, four will stay at home in North Carolina. Please click here for more.
Cardinal Gibbons’ Harris named volleyball NC Player of the Year
Cardinal Gibbons junior Genevieve Harris has been named the Gatorade North Carolina Player of the Year in volleyball. Harris, a 5-foot-11 setter, who helped Gibbons to a perfect 22-0 record this past fall, including a win in the N.C. High School Athletic Association 4A state championship. Please click here for more.
Year in Review: Top 10 sports stories of 2024 in North Carolina
It’s been another memorable year in the world of sports and the ABC11 team takes a look back on the biggest stories. Please click here for more.
For the first time, the NCHSAA will have eight classifications of member schools
J. Mike Blake, writer for HighSchoolOT.com, joined Jeff Hamlin to discuss the complications with the changes to the North Carolina High School conference realignment. Please click here to listen.
Live updates: North Carolina 1A championship football game, Tarboro vs. Corvian Community School
Corvian Community High School’s football team of Charlotte, under Chris Amill, is only in its third season. Tarboro, under longtime coach Jeff Craddock, is in North Carolina’s High School Athletic Association 1A state title game for a state-record tying eighth straight year. Please click here for more.
NCHSAA high school football championships: Picks, predictions for 2024 state title games
High school football season in North Carolina reaches its climax this weekend, with state champions being crowned in Chapel Hill and Raleigh. See who one prep writer expects to win each game. Please click here for more. Photo by Josh Bell/Asheville Citizen Times.
Will James Jr. drops 51 to send Holly Springs past White Oak
Will James Jr. of Holly Springs High School scores in bunches and that’s nothing new, but what he has saved for his senior season may be some of his best work. A game after registering his 1,000th career point, the Toledo recruit posted a career-best 51 in Holly Springs’ 77-70 non-conference win over White Oak. Please click here for more.