CHAPEL HILL – The North Carolina High School Athletic
Association announced today that 127 member schools in the NCHSAA were ejection
free in all of their athletic contests during the 2011-12 school year.
The schools were recognized at the Association’s recently completed regional meetings held across the state. The 127 schools represent 32.6 percent of the NCHSAA's member schools, based on the 390 member schools last year.
Two schools, including Jones Senior and Gray Stone Day in Misenheimer, completed their fifth consecutive year without an ejection in any sports.
The guidelines record ejections for unsportsmanlike acts such as fighting, taunting, profanity, obscene gestures or disrespectfully addressing or contacting officials.
The 2006-07 academic year was the best since the NCHSAA starting tracking ejections in 1997, with 202 schools earning ejection free status, which represented 54.8 percent of the member schools in that year. There were 113 ejection free schools in 2010-11, or 29 percent of the membership.
"We are proud that 127 schools were ejection free last year," said NCHSAA commissioner Davis Whitfield, "but we have to continue to make sportsmanship a priority and not lose focus until all member schools are also ejection free."
All schools with no ejections for the year received a certificate of recognition at the recently completed NCHSAA regional meetings across the state. North Carolina Farm Bureau sponsors this as part of its initiative with the NCHSAA.
2011-2012 Ejection-Free Award Recipients
Region 1
Cape Hatteras
Mattamuskeet
Northeastern
Northside (Beaufort)
Ocracoke
Perquimans
South Creek
Southside
Washington
Region 2
Ashley
Croatan
Heide Trask
Hobbton
Jones*
Lakewood
Midway
North Brunswick
North Duplin
North Lenoir
Rosewood
South Lenoir
White Oak
Region 3
Cardinal Gibbons
Corinth-Holders
Durham School of the Arts
Eastern NC School for the Deaf
Fike
Franklin Academy
Franklinton
Hunt
Kestrel Heights
Leesville Road
Louisburg
North Johnston
Princeton
Raleigh Charter
Rocky Mount
Rocky Mount Preparatory
Roxboro Community
Southeast Halifax
Southern Durham
Southern Nash
Southwest Edgecombe
Voyager Academy
Warren County
Region 4
East Bladen
Lee County
North Moore
Pine Forest
Scotland
South Robeson
Triton
West Bladen
West Montgomery
Western Harnett
Region 5
Andrews, T.W.
Asheboro
Atkins
Bishop McGuinness
Central Davidson
Chatham Central
Cummings
East Forsyth
Glenn, Robert B.
Graham
Jordan-Matthews
North Stokes
Northern Guilford
Providence Grove
River Mill Academy
Smith, Ben L.
South Davidson
West Forsyth
Western Alamance
Wheatmore
Winston-Salem Preparatory
Region 6
Anson Senior
Ashbrook
Berry Academy, Phillip O.
Brown, A.L.
Butler
Charlotte Catholic
Cherryville
Cuthbertson
East Mecklenburg
Gray Stone Day*
Harding University
Hickory Ridge
Hopewell
Hough
Kings Mountain
Lincoln Charter
North Stanly
Olympic
Porter Ridge
Providence
Salisbury
South Stanly
Sun Valley
Weddington
West Charlotte
West Lincoln
Region 7
Bandys
Challenger Early College
Mount Airy
NC School for the Deaf
North Surry
Pine Lake Preparatory
Statesville
Watauga
West Iredell
Region 8
Andrews
East Henderson
East Rutherford
Hayesville
Hendersonville
Hiwassee Dam
McDowell
Mitchell
Mountain Heritage
Nantahala
North Henderson
Owen, Charles D.
Polk County
A.C. Reynolds
Robbinsville
Smoky Mountain
*5th Consecutive Ejection-free Year Recipient
.png)
