The Big Kick was a big success.
More than 500 youths and volunteer coaches from 55 teams in the A.E. Finley YMCA’s soccer program raised $4,290 to help less fortunate families.
Led by the A.E. Finley sports staff, the Big Kick program ended Sept. 25. For six weeks, players learned about teamwork, sportsmanship and philanthropy while raising money for less privileged children ...
NCHSAA names seven coaches who have made a difference
Sanderson High will receive the N.C. High School Athletic Association's
2010 Sportsmanship Award during the organization's annual meeting next
Thursday.
The Capital Area Soccer League has honored Cameron Jarvis of Wake
Forest and more than 350 other young players with its Fall Hamilton
Sportsmanship Awards.
Jarvis, 9, is a fourth-grader at Pleasant Union Elementary School in Wake Forest. She plays for the CASL U10 Hearts.
"Sportsmanship means that you help other people. You have to treat the
coaches the way they treat you," Jarvis, the daughter of Steve and Beth
Jarvis, said cheerfully during a telephone interview Monday evening.
Christina Alevizatos (Millbrook), Megan Carper (Franklinton) and Ashley Davis (Sanderson) are among the individual sportsmanship winners.
125 of the NCHSAA's 375 schools had no ejections in 2007-2008. A record 202 schools had no ejections in 2006-2007.
My column in today's News & Observer has generated several calls. Some people have asked to see New Hanover's Code of Ethics. Here is the link:
