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April 26, 2025
Dudley High School junior Le’Ezra Brown was named the Gatorade North Carolina Boys Track & Field Player of the Year on Thursday. Brown, who stands at 6-foot-1 and 170 pounds, is a hurdler and sprinter at Dudley who has won multiple state championships and is a nation champion hurdler. At the N.C. High School Athletic
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The fourth-annual HighSchoolOT boys lacrosse all-state team features 31 athletes making an appearance on the team for at least the second time, led by the lone first four-time all-state selection: Cannon School’s Brevin Wilson. There is a 20-player first, second, and third team, each with at least two goalies, three defenders, two long-stick midfielders, three
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Robert Dillingham’s next stop? The Land of 10,000 Lakes. The 6-foot-1 guard was drafted by the San Antonio Spurs with the eighth overall pick on Wednesday night in the 2024 NBA Draft. Dillingham is originally from Hickory but never played for an association school in North Carolina. He played for three different teams in high
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Risk minimization – particularly as it relates to lost equipment during play, proper wearing of the helmet and appropriate instances for checking an opponent’s crosse – was the focus of the rules changes forwarded by the NFHS Boys Lacrosse Rules Committee for the 2025 season. These topic areas headlined the eight total rules changes recommended
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The National Federation of State High School Associations’ (NFHS) 105th Summer Meeting will be held June 28-July 1 at the Boston Marriott Copley Place in Boston, Massachusetts. This will be the fourth time Boston has played host to the NFHS Summer Meeting, and the first time the event has returned to “The City on the
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High school baseball players using non-wood bats will have greater flexibility in using substances to enhance their grip on the bat with a change that brings consistency to Rule 1-3-2. This rule revision was one of two proposed by the NFHS Baseball Rules Committee after its annual rules meeting held June 2-4 at The Alexander
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Jimmy Randazzo will attend and play football at Yale University. The 6-foot-5, 300-pound offensive tackle is one of the best lineman in the Charlotte metro. The class of 2025 prospect announced his commitment to his X account on Tuesday. He has achieved an impressive 4.41 GPA. Yale’s football program competes in the NCAA Division I
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On Tuesday, Butler High School quarterback Zachary Lawrence closed his recruitment with a verbal commitment to the University of Massachusetts. He announced his decision to his social media accounts. The Minutemen’s football team competes in the NCAA’s Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. Since 2015, UMass has not competed in a conference. Starting with the 2025
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Welcome back to The Huddle! It’s getting scary close to the start of the high school football season in North Carolina. I am deep in the weeds of trying to finish up my returning team production stats for HSOT Insiders while also writing most of the content for our second annual HighSchoolOT Football Preview digital
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The fourth-annual HighSchoolOT girls lacrosse all-state team features 42 athletes making an appearance on the team for at least the second time, led by our first four-time all-state selections: Cardinal Gibbons’ Taylor Alexander and Weddington’s Elektra Koulouris. There is a 20-player first, second, and third team, each with at least two goalies, four defenders, and 10 offensive
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