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            <title>Nick Stevens to host live football chat Friday</title>
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            <description>HighSchoolOT.com editor Nick Stevens will host a live chat on Friday, July 30, as North Carolina prepares to kick off the 2010 high school football season.</description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:57:23 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Singer will not play at N.C. State</title>
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            <description>Former Athens Drive defensive back Pete Singer will not play football at N.C. State this fall.</description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:40:35 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>West girls basketball team beats East</title>
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            <description>The West girls basketball team defeated the East girls 62-55 in the N.C. East-West All-Star Game on Monday in Greensboro.</description>
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            <title>NCHSAA commissioner speaks to N.C. athletic directors</title>
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            <description>North Carolina High School Athletic Association commissioner Davis Whitfield addressed a large group of the state&#039;s high school athletic directors on Tuesday morning.</description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:50:57 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>East-West All-Star basketball games scheduled for Monday</title>
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            <description>The East-West All-Star basketball games are slated to be played Monday night at the Greensboro Coliseum.</description>
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            <title>Athens Drive&#039;s Perry qualifies for U.S. Women&#039;s Amateur</title>
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            <description>Perry, from Cary, N.C., is a previous recipient of Tom Suiter’s Extra Effort Award and attended Athens Drive High School in Raleigh.</description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:45:11 -0400</pubDate>
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            <description>Earlier this week, Bobby Guthrie, Wake County Public Schools&#039; senior administrator for athletics, won a national award for his work in pushing coaching education in Wake County, North Carolina and across the country.</description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:20:45 -0400</pubDate>
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            <description>The Lady Jaguars posted a 24-5 overall record in 2009-2010.</description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:55:16 -0400</pubDate>
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            <description>Bobby Guthrie, senior administrator for athletics for the Wake County Public Schools, has been named the National Coach Educator of the Year by the National Federation of State High School Athletic Associations.</description>
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            <description>Athens Drive High School basketball product Josh Davis will transfer to Tulane University.</description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:38:53 -0400</pubDate>
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            <description>A strong spring sports season pushed Apex past Green Hope in the Wachovia Cup standings.</description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:03:58 -0400</pubDate>
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            <description>The N.C. High School Athletic Association will meet on Tuesday with football coaches from the state about the proposed pod playoff system.</description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:29:04 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Athens Drive hurdler to sign with Wake Forest</title>
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            <description>Athens Drive hurdler Allie Johnson will sign her National Letter of Intent on Thursday with Wake Forest, the school announced in an e-mail Thursday morning.
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            <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:23:25 -0400</pubDate>
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            <description>Keith Sutton, the chairman of the school board&#039;s finance committee, said he will ask the committee to drop the proposal that would cut coaches&#039; pay by 30 percent.</description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 12:13:21 -0400</pubDate>
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            <description>The North Carolina High School Athletic Association state cross-country championships will have a new home, starting with the 2010 event.</description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 16:42:14 -0400</pubDate>
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            <description>Athens Drive head football coach Jeff Smouse has retired from teaching, the school&#039;s athletic director confirmed to HighSchoolOT.com Monday morning.</description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 13:14:52 -0400</pubDate>
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            <description>The  N.C. Coaches Association released the east rosters for the East-West All-Star boys and girls basketball games to be held in July.</description>
            <pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 22:54:24 -0400</pubDate>
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            <description>The N.C. High School Athletic Association released the state playoff soccer brackets on Monday afternoon.</description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 14:13:15 -0400</pubDate>
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            <description>The N.C. High School Athletic Association voted Wednesday to make changes to the high school football season beginning in 2011.</description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 08:45:05 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Statewide Scores: Lacrosse District Round</title>
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            <description>HighSchoolOT.com is tracking statewide playoff scores for boys and girls lacrosse.</description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 22:09:50 -0400</pubDate>
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            <description>The N.C. Chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame has announced the names of five individuals who have been selected for induction into the Class of 2010.</description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:20:08 -0400</pubDate>
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            <description>Dr. Jim Tenopir, executive director of the Nebraska School Activities Association for the past nine years, has been named chief operating officer of the NFHS, effective July 1.</description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:07:47 -0400</pubDate>
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            <description>A revision in the appropriate dress for weigh-ins in high school wrestling was among four rules changes approved by the NFHS Wrestling Rules Committee at its April 5-7 meeting in Indianapolis.</description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:06:03 -0400</pubDate>
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            <description>2010 will mark the first lacrosse state championship as a sanctioned sport by the N.C. High School Athletic Association.</description>
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            <description>The changes, which were subsequently approved by the NFHS Board of Directors, will take effect with the 2010-11 season. </description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:48:59 -0400</pubDate>
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            <description>School board member Debra Goldman seemed to oppose the proposed cuts to the extra-duty staff on Tuesday.</description>
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            <description>Wake County athletic director Bobby Guthrie said not to expect a decision on the 30 percent pay cut next week.</description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:55:51 -0400</pubDate>
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            <description>At least one Wake County school board member thinks the school system should look at selling the naming rights at high school stadiums to help with school funding.</description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:09:27 -0400</pubDate>
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            <description>The cuts, which could total as much as $34 million, do not spare athletics.</description>
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            <description>Four local coaching positions were listed as open on Thursday by Wake County Public Schools.</description>
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            <description>The Wake County Public School System&#039;s chief business officer says the school system is facing an additional $20 million in budget cuts, on top of other money problems the district is facing.</description>
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            <description>The Bobby Murray High School Baseball Invitational begins Thursday at the USA Baseball Complex in Cary.</description>
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            <description>Athens Drive is looking to hire a new varsity cheerleading coach for next school year.</description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:54:32 -0400</pubDate>
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            <description>Outfielder Josh Hamilton has been scratched from the Texas Rangers&#039; initial intrasquad game with a bruised left shoulder.</description>
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            <description>Enloe will advance to the east regionals in Greenville on Thursday night.</description>
            <pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:53:26 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Slideshow: Athens Drive vs. Enloe, girls playoffs (Feb. 26, 2010)</title>
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            <description>Senior Keisha Gatling led Athens Drive past Wakefield on Wednesday night with a career-high 27-points.</description>
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            <title>Interview: Mike Robinson, Green Hope (Feb. 19, 2010)</title>
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            <description>Robinson says the undefeated mark will place extra pressure on his team in the state playoffs.</description>
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            <description>The Falcons defeated Athens Drive for the third time this season, this time to win the Tri-9 tournament title.</description>
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            <description>HighSchoolOT.com editor Nick Stevens is blogging live at the Tri-9 finals tonight.</description>
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            <description>Girls basketball fans in the Triangle will want to be at Panther Creek High School on Friday night when Green Hope and Athens Drive meet for the third time this season - this time for the conference tournament title.</description>
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            <description>Athens Drive girls basketball player Rachel Collins was named this week&#039;s winner of Tom Suiter&#039;s Extra Effort Award.</description>
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            <description>The Wake County Public School System&#039;s senior director of athletics, Bobby Guthrie, reported the school districts accomplishments for the 2008-2009 winter sports season to the Board of Education.</description>
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