NCHSAA Announces top teams in the annual Scholar Athlete Program Contest:Page HS and T. Wingate Andrews HS among Top Finishers

CHAPEL HILL – The NCHSAA Scholar Athlete Program is sponsored by the Governor’s Highway Safety Program’s “Click It or Ticket” initiative and provides certificates of recognition to individual students as well as teams that meet the qualification standards. For individuals to qualify, they must have a 3.5 weighted GPA or higher during the semester under consideration, and for a team to qualify for recognition they must have a combined unweighted GPA of 3.1 or higher during their semester of competition.

The Scholar Athlete Program is the associations largest voluntary program. This year the NCHSAA awarded over 20,000 certificates for the Fall and Winter Sports Season alone, and recognized 949 teams Fall or Winter Sports teams, which is the largest number of teams ever submitted for a single-semester in the history of the program.

The NCHSAA presented a plaque and a cash award to the top team in each sport, based on unweighted team GPA, at the Annual Meeting. The Association also provides a cash award to second and third place teams. The cash awards are $250 for a first-place finishing team, $150 for second and $100 for third.

Spring 2017 Scholar Athlete Team Awards

BASEBALL
1 – Wilkes Central – 3.68
2 – Kings Mountain – 3.596
3 – North Wilkes – 3.54

MEN’S GOLF
1 – Chatham Charter – 3.73
2 – Tuscola – 3.62
3 – Broughton – 3.583

MEN’S LACROSSE
1 – Weddington – 3.472
2 – North Davidson – 3.391
3 – Broughton – 3.334

WOMEN’S LACROSSE
1 – Weddington – 3.771
2 – R.J. Reynolds – 3.747
3 – Broughton – 3.672

MEN’S OUTDOOR TRACK
1 – Carolina International School – 3.750
2 – Weddington – 3.555
3 – NC School of Science & Math – 3.53

WOMEN’S OUTDOOR TRACK
1 – Weddington – 3.7553
2 – Tuscola – 3.718
3 – NC School of Science & Math – 3.70

WOMEN’S SOCCER
1 – Polk County – 3.872
2 – Page – 3.824
3 – East Wilkes – 3.781

SOFTBALL
1 – North Wilkes – 3.79
2 – Crest – 3.72
3 – North Iredell & Piedmont Community Charter – 3.70

MEN’S TENNIS
1 – Kings Mountain – 3.913
2 – Carrboro – 3.85
3 – Crest & Union Pines – 3.77

FALL 2017-18 Scholar Athlete Team Awards

CHEERLEADING
1 – Heide Trask – 3.889
2 – Eastern Alamance – 3.850
3 – Alexander Central – 3.82

MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY
1 – Hickory – 3.877
2 – Roxboro Community School – 3.854
3 – T.C. Roberson – 3.84

WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY
1 – Smoky Mountain – 3.939
2 – Southwestern Randolph – 3.929
3 – Weddington – 3.911

FIELD HOCKEY
1 – Carrboro – 3.579
2 – Reagan – 3.514
3 – Page – 3.506

FOOTBALL
1 – Weddington – 3.498
2 – Highland Tech – 3.379
3 – Cardinal Gibbons – 3.343

WOMEN’S GOLF
1 – Topsail – 3.930
2 – Watauga – 3.92
3 – South Granville & Southern Alamance – 3.900

MEN’S SOCCER
1 – Weddington – 3.699
2 – NC School of Science & Math – 3.68
3 – Goldsboro – 3.59

WOMEN’S TENNIS
1 – Smoky Mountain – 3.881
2 – Ashe County – 3.871
3 – Crest 3.86

VOLLEYBALL
1 – Ayden Grifton – 3.99
2 – Crest – 3.9
3 – Richmond – 3.86

WINTER 2017-18 Scholar Athlete Team Awards

MEN’S BASKETBALL
1 – Tuscola – 3.725
2 – NC School of Science & Math – 3.64
3 – Mountain Heritage – 3.624

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
1 – Piedmont Community Charter – 3.93
2 – Roxboro Community School – 3.853
3 – Carson – 3.841

MEN’S INDOOR TRACK
1 – Hickory – 3.858
2 – Weddington – 3.647
3 – NC School of Science & Math – 3.63

WOMEN’S INDOOR TRACK
1 – Northern Nash – 3.964
2 – Hickory – 3.900
3 – Central Academy – 3.86

MEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING
1 – Crest – 3.79
2 – Smoky Mountain – 3.768
3 – Tuscola – 3.753

WOMEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING
1 – Orange – 3.84
2 – Richmond – 3.83
3 – T.C. Roberson – 3.82

WRESTLING
1 – N.C. School of Science & Math – 3.65
2 – Weddington – 3.585
3 – T.W. Andrews – 3.5