See a gallery of photos from several selected high school games in the Triangle area.

Former East Chapel Hill High School standout Dan Greenberg has been named head tennis coach at his alma mater, Williams College (’08), making him one of the youngest NCAA coaches in the nation.
Greenberg will coach three current Ephs who were his teammates during his playing days in seniors Nick Lebedoff and Jeremy Weinberger, and junior Ari Binder.
"I feel very fortunate to return to Williams,” said Greenberg. “I had an amazing experience here as a student-athlete, and the opportunity to come back as a coach is tremendous. I couldn't imagine a more inspiring place to work. Everyone here is dedicated to the community and to bringing out each other's best, and I look forward to dedicating myself to this great school and storied program."
One of four brothers to help East Chapel Hill win a string of state team championships , Greenberg was the 2005 Rookie of the Year and the 2008 Player of the Year for the New England Small Colleges Athletic Conference. Upon graduating from Williams, Greenberg was hired as an Assistant Pro at the Hollow Rock Racquet Club in Durham, where he was also responsible for Junior Development.
In the fall of 2008 he became a volunteer coach at the University of North Carolina where he helped plan and lead practices, provided on-court coaching and assisted with administrative duties for the Tar Heels.

Much to the relief of players and parents, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board has approved a teaching position for Chapel Hill High School boys basketball coach Tod Morgan.
Morgan initially was among six first-year teachers at CHHS whose jobs were cut because of budget shortfalls. But CHHS interim principal Steve Scroggs, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Superintendent Neil Pedersen and CHCCS personnel director Hazel Gibbs scrambled to find funding to preserve as many jobs as possible.
Pedersen put Morgan’s name before the school board last Thursday for a teaching position in next year’s budget. The board’s approval at that meeting means Morgan should return as a health and physical education teacher somewhere within the CHCCS system for 2009-10. And that smoothed the way for CHHS to renew Morgan’s position as basketball coach.
“This is some wonderful news! In this economy, just knowing you have a job is very good news,” Morgan told CHHS team members and parents.
The question remains whether or not Morgan’s teaching position will be posted at Chapel Hill High School. Pedersen's recommendation did not specify where the job would be situated, and recent budget cuts may necessitate Morgan going to another school to replace another vacated post.
Still, having coaches teach at the same school with their respective team has long been the preference for the school system, and Morgan hopes he can keep teaching at CHHS.

See 29 raw images from Sanderson's 8-3 win over Greenville Rose in Raleigh on Friday, May 29, 2009.

See an audio slide show of high school athletes to watch in the Triangle. Photos and audio by staff photojournalist Takaaki Iwabu.

Almost 200 prospects turn out at Crabtree Valley Mall on Saturday, Feb. 21, 2009 to audition for a local production of High School Musical 2.

I'll admit that I wasn't really that into watching "High School Reunion."

I don't have bad memories of high school, and I've moved on, keeping in touch with the friends I liked best. Plus I went to a school with like 5,000 students. I probably didn't know 3/4s of my class.

But wouldn't you know, I found the first hour of this show pretty darn interesting. It comes on tonight at 10pm.

The show reunites the 1988 class of Chandler High of Chandler, Arizona at a resort in Hawaii. And most of the "types" are present: The jock and the homecoming queen (they actually married, then divorced); the ignored ugly duckling, who is now sweet, more aggressive and compelled
to dress like a hootchie; the wannabe, who still holds a grudge against the mean girl; the class clown, the one who got pregnant and others.

Due to the recent weather conditions, the varsity basketball games scheduled between East Chapel Hill High School and Northern Durham for Jan. 21 at ECHHS have been rescheduled. They will be played as a quadruple-header — junior varsity and varsity, boys and girls — will play this Saturday Jan. 24 at East Chapel Hill.
The JV girls will tip off the afternoon with a 1 p.m. start, and the next three games will follow in succession.

The Schedule
ECH vs. Northern Durham
Saturday, Jan. 24
JV Girls — 1 p.m.
JV Boys — 2:30 p.m.
Varsity Girls -- 4 p.m.
Varsity Boys -- 5:30 p.m.

Show a slight promise of future domination, make a bus load of friends that are all grown up and care about the game of baseball and what do you get? A sweet facility for the spring.

East Wake High School's baseball field is right in the middle of such a transition to aesthetic perfection.

Through boosters and golf tourneys, etc., the Warriors will have one of the nicest facilities in the state come this spring.

The price tag? Well, they could've bought a Corvette. Coach Kerry Kincaid estimated the coast of the improvements at around $50,000-$55,000. Those improvements include new grass and infield, a new outfield fence, a new scoreboard and a new backstop.

With a new three-wheeler for dragging the field, the ticket could run up to near $60,000. Luckily for East Wake, the school system/county met them halfway on some of the funding since aspects of the current facility didn't meet code and was their responsibility.

There will be more on this facelift as it comes. Look for a story and picture in Eastern Wake News in the weeks to come -- I don't think anyone will be taking field pictures as long as it is covered with snow. 

Johnny Whitfield asked me an interesting question while the GlaxoSmithKline Holiday Invitational was going on at Broughton two weekends ago, and to my surprise I knew the simple answer despite never thinking of it myself.

He wanted to know why all these Texas, Georgia and Canadian schools came to Raleigh for a basketballl tournament when our teams never travel that far.

It was like a lightbulb exploded in my head when I remembered seeing Roy Williams on day one.

Raleigh is the Mecca of basketball. Well, really it's probably somewhere in Cary (in-between Chapel Hill, Durham and Raleigh), but think about UNC, N.C. State and Duke, how close they are to Raleigh — and the roots the Broughton program has and history of the gym — and you tell ME why we don't have to go anywhere!

Knightdale didn't fare so well in the GSK tourney this year, similar to last year, but did have some big moments.

Those that saw Stan Okoye in the game against Panther Creek probably heard the announcers state he had cross the 1,000 point barrier on his career — nothing too flashy unless, like Stan, you didn't play for nearly an entire season for knee injury (last year).

Although the Knights fell off in rounds two and three, their future college players got some time in the spotlight to showcase skills any school would love to have on the court.