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- Written by: Vic Ramsey
As you may recall, at the end of the women's season last fall, the NCHSTCA conducted an extensive survey of the coaching community regarding a number of issues facing high school tennis in North Carolina.
Those results have been tabulated, and we're sharing a "public" copy of the results here on our website.
This report does not include the coaches' responses to the variety of open-ended questions we posed as part of the survey, since we did not have permission to publish those comments broadly. However, we have shared those comments with our Board of Directors,with the NCHSAA staff members responsible for tennis, and with our liason at USTA-NC.
Click here to access the survey results.
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- Written by: Vic Ramsey
Last August, we published the results of our level-based play survey, conducted in May 2025, and our analysis of the playoff results in all sports from 2021-25. You can find that article here.
We've continued that study, looking at playoff results from the most recent fall season in football, men's soccer, volleyball, and women's tennis. We analyzed every contest in which a charter school and a traditional, geographically based high school played against each other. We wanted to see if the move to eight classifications had an effect on the charter vs. traditional competition.
If charter schools, by virtue of being charter schools, have a significant athletic advantage, we should see charter schools winning these contests a majority of the time, by a statistically significant margin, and across all classifications.
Here are the results from the fall 2025 playoffs, in all four fall team sports, in class 1A through 4A, where all of the charter schools reside.
It's early yet ... only one season, after all. So many of the results are not yet statistically significant. Plus, these results are not "independent" ... the same team may be responsible for several wins in a given sport.
All that said, in tennis, the smaller traditional schools (1A and 2A) held their own, but traditional schools in 3A and 4A struggled against the larger charter schools, which are often based in large urban areas. This corresponds to the results of our 2021-25 study, which isolated the disparity in tennis to the 2A classification, and most of those schools now reside in 3A and 4A.
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At the coaches clinic in July, the NCHSTCA revealed the results of its May survey on level-based play, and its study of playoff results between traditional and charter schools in the previous realignment cycle (2021-25).
Read more: Level-Based Play Survey and Playoff Study Paint Complicated Picture
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Green Hope High School, coached by Bob Jones, travels to Raleigh Broughton High School, coached by Helen Williams, in the NCHSTCA Women's Tennis Match of the Day on Tuesday, August 12th at 3:30 p.m.
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Elkin High School is returning all six of its starters for the 2025 women's tennis season. The Lady Bucking Elks are also adding a senior who did not play last year but started two years ago at number four singles. The squad is also adding the numbers one and number two players from last year's undefeated middle school team. The three seniors who graduated in 2024 were not starters.
Dr. Jim Harrell, Jr. is starting his third season as the head coach at Elkin High School. He has an overall record of 18-10, finishing third in the conference both seasons. The squad held its first practice on Thursday, July 31st on the school courts.
"I am excited about the season. We have eighteen or more that I have been coaching since they were eighth graders. These ladies have matured as players, improved greatly, and are ready to compete in a realigned conference," said Dr. Harrell.
Elkin's top returnee is senior Elissa Dickerson who went 6-6 at number one singles as a junior. Junior Jocelyn Johnson returns at number two singles after an 8-5 campaign in 2024.
Coach Harrell runs a no-cut program at Elkin High School and will be keeping all eighteen players.