Taken at the WCHS v Havelock HS mudfest on 4/14/08.

Final:  Lady Patriot booters 1     Havelock 0

Pamlico Middle took the boys basketball crown.

So far this year, the middle school sports champs are as follows:

• Football: Pamlico
• Girls Soccer: Morehead
• Volleyball: Broad Creek
• Boys Soccer: Broad Creek
• Wrestling: Broad Creek
• Boys Basketball: Pamlico
• Girls Basketball: Broad Creek

Middle school baseball, softball and girls golf is next on the agenda. Track follows. For posterity, scores and standings are chronicled on the athletics website.

Although the competition and victories are rewarding, interscholastic athletes offers five outcomes to all participants.  They are as follows:

• Learning
• Citizenship
• Sportsmanship
• Healthy Lifestyle
• Life Skills

This is not an X’s and O’s strategy session.  Rather, this course is about quality leadership . . . plain and simple.   The course components are as follows:

• Unit 1:   Educational Athletics and the Role of the Coach
• Unit 2:   The Coach as Manager
• Unit 3:   The Coach and Interpersonal Skills
• Unit 4:   The Coach and Physical Conditioning
• Unit 5:   The Coach as Teacher

This workshop is the second of three professional development opportunities this year designed to enhance the delivery of our school system’s interscholastic athletic mission.  The first event was held for 53 coaches on August 16-17.  It is chronicled on this blog under the heading “Physicality.”

The third event is for high school athletic directors.  It is the North Carolina Athletic Directors Association annual conference.  This year it will be held in Asheville on March16-19.  Attending the conference this year will be ECHS athletic directors Clinton Montford and George Burbella, Croatan Athletic Director David Perry, West Carteret Athletic Director Craig McClanahan and Robert Lancaster, and Carteret County Athletic Director Joe Poletti.

While there, the Athletic Directors will take foundation and leadership courses in the Athletic Leadership Training program.

Morehead Middle boys and girls, each at 8-2, hold down second.  Broad Creek is battling Beaufort Middle for third place on the boys side.  The upstart Arapahoe Charter girls team is in a dogfight with Beaufort Middle on the girls side.

Follow the middle school schedules and standings at Carteret Athletics.

BMS wrestling coach Dale Boyd has kicked his program up a notch with a worthy second place finish in the league.

From a News-Times report:

Broad Creek dominated the competition during the regular season, winning its seven matches by a combined score of 476-45, including two shutouts.

However, Beaufort Middle School served noticed to all those in attendance at the tournament that Broad Creek is no longer the only big kid on the block in the Crystal Coast Athletic Conference.

Beaufort finished in second place at the championship meet with 173 points, which was 64 points behind the champion Bulldogs with 237.

The Chargers stormed out of the gates and took the first six championship finals matches with four of the matches coming against Bulldog wrestlers.

• “Sportsmanship” is a set of behaviors to be exhibited by student-athletes, coaches, game officials, administrators and fans in athletics competition. These behaviors are based on values, including respect, civility, fairness, honestly and responsibility.

• “Ethical conduct” is a set of guiding principles with which each person follows the letter and spirit of the rules. Such conduct reflects a higher standard than law because it includes, among other principles, fundamental values that define sportsmanship.

All schools who compete in interscholastic athletics would do well to revisit sportsmanship. Here is a timely kwout from the MCMS website.

We are early in the season and anything can happen.  Keep an eye on the season schedules and standings.

Couple an awesome display of firepower with an unyielding defense. Add seasoned soccer coaches and a culture of soccer excellence. What do you get?

Broad Creek Middle School turned in another undefeated 9-0 soccer season to retain the Crystal Coast Athletic Conference middle school soccer championship.

The Bulldogs outscored their opponents 86-1.

The eight 8th grade Bulldog soccer players, several of whom play at the elite classic level in club soccer, exit their two-year middle school soccer career with a perfect 18-0 record.

And knowing Coach Holland and the Broad Creek soccer tradition, the pipeline of talent remains loaded.

There is no denying that our middle schools are the feeder systems to our high school athletic programs. This perfect two-year run by Broad Creek is a harbinger of continued soccer success at Croatan for several years to come.

Congrats, Bulldogs. The Creek continues to rise in this year’s middle school athletics.

Football Champs: Pamlico
Girls Soccer Champs: Morehead Middle
Volleyball Champs: Broad Creek
Boys Soccer Champs: Broad Creek

Up next—basketball and wrestling!

This is a U-14 Classic club soccer team. The girls attend Broad Creek Middle, Morehead Middle, and Tucker Creek Middle (Havelock). As their record indicates, they have a tradition of winning. But they are not a super-star, win at all costs team. The coaches develop all players as responsible and caring young citizens first, quality athletes second. The winning has been a by-product.

CHAPEL HILL – Ejections for bad behavior in high school sports have more than doubled so far this year statewide, thanks to stricter enforcement of sportsmanship rules.

Unsportsmanlike conduct — which can include fighting, on-field celebrations, diving into the end zone and taunting opponents — has become a greater concern in North Carolina partly because of increased emphasis on improving athletes’ behavior by the National Federation of High School Athletic Associations, which sets the rules that the state association must play by.

Mark Dreibelbis, the association’s head of officials, cited “the brazenness of our young people” during winter board meetings Tuesday. “We don’t want to take spontaneous celebration out of the game,” he said. “But we have to make our students accountable.”

Mark Dreibelbis is scheduled to come to Carteret County on February 18 to do the first 3.5 hours of the National Federation of High School Athletics Associations “Fundamentals of Coaching” workshop.

We need at least 20 coaches for the workshop to make.  We can take no more than 40.  If you are interested, send me an e-mail at jpoletti@co.carteret.k12.nc.us