Spring Creek High School Men's and Women's Coach Retiring

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Written by: Donald Clark

Published: May 29, 2025

Robert Jones, the men's and women's tennis coach at Spring Creek High School, is retiring as the head coach at the school.   Coach Jones coached men's tennis for 22 seasons at East Duplin, Spring Creek, Pender County, and Clinton.  He coached women's tennis for 18 seasons at East Duplin, Spring Creek, and Clinton.

Coach Jones won 323 high school tennis matches in his career at the four schools.   His overall record for 22 seasons in men's tennis was 173-16.   His overall record for 18 seasons in women's tennis was 150-111.

He has 29.1 years in education and plans to continue teaching next year at Greenwood and Wayne School of Technical Arts.   His wife Erica, who played for East Duplin High School four years, is the current CTE and High School Director for Duplin County Schools.   His son Daniel, a senior at East Duplin High School, will be attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on a Morehead-Cain Scholarship next year.

The new Spring Creek High School me's and women's tennis coach will be Daniel Krentz.  Coach Jones plans to continue to serve as an assistant coach for both programs.

 

North Carolina Men's Tennis Most Coaching Wins (Active Coaches)

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Written by: Donald Clark

Published: March 11, 2025

 NORTH CAROLINA MEN'S TENNIS COACHING RECORDS (ACTIVE)

Current Rank	Name	School(s)	Wins	Losses	Seasons	Notes
#1	Union Pines	Union Pines	777	156	53
#2	Brad Joyner	Southern Nash	480	138	31
#3	Andrew Tuttle	Cardinal Gibbons	421	74	21	(75-14 in first four years at Green Hope)
#4	Kenneth Stivason	Clayton	376	67	26
#5	Lee Matthews	Wilson Fike	307	145	25
#6	Denny Wesney	Southwest Guilford	305	140	25
#7	Ed Flynn	Charlotte Myers Park	246	50	19
#8	Jo Cabana	Charlotte Catholic	202	17	11	45-14 in three seasons at Charlotte Catholic; 167-3 at Cardinal Gibbons in Florida
#9	Buzz Cook	T.C. Roberson	160	21	12
#10	Rich Dowler	Western Alamance	155	48	16
#11	Ryan Griffin	Raleigh Charter School	153	25	11
#12	Milton Griffith	Salisbury	144	14	11
#13	Kirk Schmidt	Wilmington New Hanover	141	24	11
#14	Craig Hassell	Charles B. Aycock	137	67	16	124-64 in 15 seasons at Eastern Wayne
#15	Neil Alderman	Chapel Hill	128	54	10
#16	Scott Alston	North Lenoir	122	70	14
#17	Tim Medlin	Greene Central	115	46	10
#18	David Anderson	North Johnston	111	49	10
#19	Scott Fowler	Lincoln Charter School	106	30	12
#20	Marvin Hardy	Greenville J.H. Rose	105	37	22
#21	Bob Jones	Green Hope	98	5	6
#22	Vic Ramsey	Currituck County	96	143	20
#23	Shane Nixon	Davie County	95	41	9
#24	Justin Webb	Hillsborough Orange	92	73	11
#25	Will Tyer	Ayden-Grifton	92	112	17
#26	Matthew Tuck	Forbush	90	55	10
#27	James Krege	Greensboro Grimsley	75	23	6
#28	Jennifer Anderson	Northwest Guilford	59	10	4
#29	Andrew Myers	Ledford	53	10	4
#30	Sean Harmon	South Point	53	5	4
#31	Chase Connor	Martin County	50	18	4
#32	Christopher Goodman	Fayetteville Terry Sanford	48	8	5
#33	Josh Oxendine	Charlotte Providence	41	7	3
#34	Jay James	Felton Grove	37	11	4	(10-3 at Wayne Christian; 27-8 at Harnett Central in three seasons)
#35	Daniel Manzer	Northeastern	36	14	4	(21-7 at Washington High School in 2011 and 2012) (10-0 at Clayton High School in spring of 2021)
#36	Stephen Kirby	Eno River Academy	36	27	4
#37	Fred Brown	East Burke	32	44	7
#38	Holden Poole	Harnett Central	25	11	3
#39	Brandon Shull	Cherryville	23	62	9

 

NCHSAA Releases Third Draft of 25-26 Conference Assignments

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Written by: Vic Ramsey

Published: January 12, 2025

On Monday, March 3rd, the NCHSAA Board of Directors met at its offices in Chapel Hill and heard appeals from schools asking for changes in their conference assignments. After hearing presentations from the schools, the Board of Directors voted on each proposal, denying the majority and approving only four changes.

• Cardinal Gibbons was granted an exception to move from 6A to 7A, while remaining in the same conference. 
• Swansboro was granted a move to the 5A conference currently including schools such as Dixon and Croatan. Swansboro will be the only 6A school in that conference.
• NCSSM-Durham was allowed to join a conference in the Raleigh-Durham area, forming a 1A/2A/3A split of mostly charter schools in the Raleigh metro area.
• Fourteen schools in the northwestern section of the state were reconfigured into two conferences, one a 2A/3A/4A split and the other a 3A/4A combo.

After hearing all appeals, and voting on each, the Board adopted the final conference assignments for the new realignment period. A copy of that final report is available on the NCHSAA website. 

The number of conferences remained 64, with all but 10 being split conferences. There are now 11 three-way splits and 43 two-way splits.

The vast majority of schools find themselves in split conferences.

• 68 schools are in single-class conferences
• 290 schools are in two-way splits
• 83 are in three-way splits

Seventeen schools are now "singletons"; that is, a school which is the only school of its classification in a given conference.

The prevalence of split conferences is true in all eight classifications, and is testimony to the fact that the Realignment Committee prioritized geography and natural rivalry over grouping schools of similar size.

The NCHSAA Board of Directors will now turn its attention to the work of its Bylaw Task Force, which is developing the playoff structure for individual and team sports, as well as the 2025-26 sports calendar.

This article has been updated to reflect the third draft of the conference assignments released by the NCHSAA on February 14th.