GCS Releases Results of Athletics Investigation at Northern High

Five athletes at the school in five different sports were declared ineligible

Contact: Haley Miller (336) 370-3200
Created: 5/13/2009 6:14:39 PM

County Schools (GCS) announced today that the Northern High School varsity boys basketball team must forfeit its state championship. The decision was made after two basketball players were declared ineligible and after the district determined that school officials had not properly monitored the program.

GCS also announced that the school’s varsity wrestling, baseball, junior varsity (JV) softball and JV cheerleading teams had also played ineligible athletes.

As a result, the varsity baseball team must forfeit its season and won’t be allowed to advance to the state tournament this weekend.

The varsity wrestling team will forfeit every match in which an ineligible athlete competed, and the team score will be recalculated to determine whether the match will be recorded as a loss or a win. The junior varsity softball team will forfeit every game in which an ineligible athlete participated. Junior varsity cheerleading did not compete in any events sanctioned by the North Carolina High School Athletic Association, which governs high school sports.

In all, five athletes at the school in five different sports were declared ineligible as a result of the investigation, which district officials say will now look at football and other sports at Northern. The NCHSAA is placing the entire athletic program at Northern on probation for one year.

The announcements were made today at the request of the NCHSAA because team notifications for the state baseball and softball tournaments were due yesterday.

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