Former Sanderson boys soccer coach Bob Catapano, former Princeton football coach Harvey Brooks and N.C. High School Athletic Association deputy commissioner Que Tucker are among seven people who have been selected for the NCHSAA Hall of Fame.
The group will be presented at halftime of the University of North Carolina football game in Chapel Hill against Virginia Tech on Nov. 13 and will be inducted next spring.
Bob Catapano already is a member of the N.C. Soccer Hall of Fame and the N.C. Athletic Directors Hall of Fame.
He had a 363-44-21 boys soccer record, including 11 NCHSAA titles. His teams set a national record by going 103 games without a loss from 1982 through '87.
He retired from coaching in 1996 but served as Sanderson's athletic director until this spring.
Harvey Brooks coached football, basketball, baseball and track for more than 40 years at Norwood, South Stanly, Warrenton Graham, Princeton, Pikeville Aycock and Jones Senior. His basketball teams won 320 games while his football squads were 238-99-3.
Que Tucker coached at Reidsville High and had a 145-104 record in basketball and a 58-16 mark in volleyball. She was an assistant women's basketball coach at N.C. State before joining the NCHSAA in 1991.
Tunney Brooks coached several sports at Edenton Holmes and Lumberton. His basketball teams won 291 games, and his football teams were 72-41-4. He was athletic director at Lumber from 1960 through 1989.
Tom Brown's football teams at Maiden have won 330 games in 35 seasons. No NCHSAA coach has ever won more football games at one school. His overall football coaching record is 352-132-7.
Joe Hunt had a 87-43-6 record at Sylva-Webster and a 118-40-2 mark at Hendersonville.
Carolyn Rogers coached at Perquimans High from 1972 to 2009. She coached volleyball, cheerleading, track and field and basketball. Her basketball coaching record was 303-135.
Corinth Holders starts: The first team to wear Corinth Holders High School uniforms since 1969 will take the field this morning during a 13-team boys soccer scrimmage at Wake Forest Heritage High.
Corinth Holders is a new Johnston County school that is about five miles from Wendell. In the fall of 1969, the old Corinth Holders High merged into Smithfield-Selma High.
"We're excited about getting started," Pirates coach Brent Walston said. "This is the first time an athletic team has represented this school in a long time."
The soccer jamboree includes Heritage, Cleveland, North Johnston, Wake Forest-Rolesville, North Raleigh Christian, Charlotte Mallard Creek, Rocky Mount, Athens Drive, Wakefield, Leesville Road, Cardinal Gibbons, Panther Creek and Corinth Holders.
Play begins at 8 a.m. and continues until 6 p.m.
The jamboree schedule is online at blogs.newsobserver.com/bestblog.
Bull City moved: The Bull City Jamboree, a 16-team high school preseason football scrimmage next Friday has been moved from Durham County Stadium to Durham Riverside.
Durham County Stadium is not available because of repairs.
Sessions are scheduled for 1:30, 3:45, 6 and 8:45 p.m.
Among the teams expected to compete are Carrboro, Chapel Hill, East Chapel Hill, East Wake, Durham Hillside, Durham Jordan, Middle Creek, Millbrook, Northern Durham, Panther Creek, Winston-Salem Parkland, Person, Durham Riverside, Southern Durham and Wakefield.
Caps look strong in tennis: Broughton girls tennis coach David Rose expects all six singles starters to return. Broughton won the NCHSAA 4-A girls tennis dual-team title in 2009.
Broughton's Asha Lyengar and Katie Kane beat teammates Hamilton Lovett and Katie Davidson for the doubles title last fall.
