The Pride's Faren Frizzelle, Nitang Jones, Kim Kern and Chaudel Pilon were selected to the N.C. Soccer Coaches Association 4-A squad.

Other area players on the 4-A squad are Taylor Boone of East Chapel Hill; Nicole Danford and Taylor Rovito of Green Hope; Katy Dodd, Sydney Reed and Stephanie Partenheimer of Apex; Paige Dugal and Meagan Proper of Garner; Casey Kilburn and Barkley Minton of Broughton; Erin Mulhern and Stephanie Shaw of Enloe; and Alyssa Beardon of Panther Creek.

The 2-A and 3-A teams included Trameka James of Wilson Fike and Anna Hickey and Lauren McAnallen of Cardinal Gibbons.

The 1-A and Private All-State Teams included Macky Wingo of St. Mary's; Kelsey Kearney and Molly Pathman of Durham Academy; Nakisa Asefnia and Camille Morgan of Raleigh Charter; Brittany DeWitt of Durham Science & Math; and Yadira Santana of Siler City Jordan-Matthews.

The complete all-state teams, and the region teams, can be found at www.ncsca.org.

WEIGHTLIFTING: Athens Drive football defensive coordinator Garron Warwick has organized a Wake County Weightlifting Championship for June 14 at Athens Drive High School.

Warwick came to the area from South Florida, where high school weightlifting events are popular.

He hopes to build on this year's inaugural event, which involves only Athens Drive and Fayetteville Jack Britt.

COACHING TURNOVER: The Southeastern 1-A/2-A Conference will have almost an entirely new set of football coaches in the fall.

Six of the league's seven coaches are starting new jobs this coming season.

The only holdover is East Bladen's Lenon Fisher.

Fairmont (Barry Leonard), Red Springs (Jonathan Harper), St. Paul's (Trey Sasser), West Bladen (open), South Robeson (Laricoy McRae) and West Columbus (Pat Byrd) will have new coaches.

"I don't think there will be a lot of film study this summer. There is going to be a lot of new things in the league this year," said Sasser, who is the son of famed Wilmington-area coach Glenn Sasser and a relative of the late Johnny Sasser of East Wake.

Pat Byrd of West Columbus is the son of former Warsaw Kenan coach Billy Byrd.