In January, the NCHSTCA conducted a survey of NC high school tennis coaches with regard to several issues concerning the 2025 realignment to eight classifications. 

Ninety-two coaches responded to the survey, from all areas of the state and from all eight future classifications. We believe the results reflect an accurate picture of the feelings and beliefs of NC high school tennis coaches, and we have shared these results with NCHSAA staff.

On the primary issue of whether to shrink the state individual tennis tournament fields from 16 to 8 participants, the respondents were overwhelmingly in support of keeping the state individual tournaments at 16 entries as at present. Eighty-one percent of coaches favored a 16-entry draw at the state tournament, and, of those, 75% rated the issue as either "very important" or "extremely important".

Coaches also endorsed the NCHSTCA proposal for regional qualifiers to determine entries for the regional tournaments, again, by a wide margin. Slightly more than two thirds of the coaches responding endorsed this proposal. 

Finally, coaches want to see the future 1A and 2A classifications to have their own brackets, as opposed to being combined into a single championship. This was true of both the individual tournament and the dual team tournament. While a large number of coaches of schools unaffected by this issue expressed "no preference", three fourths of the coaches with an opinion voted to keep these classifications separate. This was especially true among 1A and 2A coaches, who voted 13-2 in favor of separate championships. 

Click here for the complete survey report.


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MEN'S TENNIS 2025 WEEK THREE 1-A POLL

  1-Bishop McGuinness
  2-Mount Airy
  3-Elkin
  4-North Carolina School of Science and Math: Morganton
  5-Eno River Academy
  6-Starmount
  7-Highland School of Technology
  8-Piedmont Community Charter School
  9-Uwharrie Charter School
10-Gray Stone Day School
Others Receiving Votes: Alleghany, Triangle Math and Science.

MEN'S TENNIS 2025 WEEK TWO 1-A POLL

  1-North Carolina School of Science and Math: Morganton
  2-Bishop McGuinness
  3-Mount Airy
  4-Piedmont Community Charter School
  5-Highland School of Technology
  6-East Wilkes
  7-Eno River Academy
  8-Gray Stone Day School
  9-Triangle Math and Science
10-Alleghany
Others Receiving Votes: Chatham Charter School, Uwharrie Charter School.

MEN'S TENNIS 2025 WEEK ONE 1-A POLL

  1-North Carolina Science and Math: Morganton
  2-Eno River Academy
  3-Highland School of Technology
  4-Elkin
  5-Bishop McGuinness
  6-Mount Airy
  7-East Wilkes
  8-Gray Stone Day School
  9-Uwharrie Charter School
10-Chatham Charter School
    -Voyager Academy
Others Receiving Votes: Alleghany, Cornerstone Charter School, Piedmont Community Charter School, Triangle Math and Science.

MEN'S TENNIS 2025 PRESEASON 1-A POLL

  1-North Carolina Science and Math: Morganton
  2-Elkin
  3-Bishop McGuinness
  4-Mount Airy
  5-East Wilkes
  6-Piedmont Community Charter School
  7-Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy
  8-Highland School of Technology
  9-Gray Stone Day School
10-Eno River Academy
Others Receiving Votes: Chatham Charter School, Triangle Math and Science, Uwharrie Charter School, Voyager Academy, Alleghany, Falls Lake, Cherryville, Mountain Island Charter School.