Harmon Wins USTA North Carolina Ron Lee High School Coach of the Year Award
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- Written by: Donald Clark
South Point High School men's tennis coach Sean Harmon was awarded the 2025 USTA North Carolina High School Coach of the Year Award on Saturday, January 31st at the Carolina Hotel in Pinehurst at the annual Tennis Weekend Awards Banquet.
"I am honored to have been selected to receive this award and all the credit goes to an amazing group of young men that always put the team first and never focus on individual goals. They have earned everything that they have achieved and I am thankful that they allow me to be their coach as I could not be more proud of each and every one of them, " said Coach Harmon.
Harmon's Red Raiders won the 3-A men's tennis state dual team championships in 2024 and 2025, posting a record of 36-1 in those two seasons. He has coached South Point for five years and has a career record of 65-5.
James Dover and Rex Dover brought home the school's first state championship in men's doubles in the spring of 2025 at the Burlington Tennis Center. South Point has sent representatives to the state tourament the last four years.
Coach Harmon also encourages excellence in the classroom. His teams won Scholar-Athlete team awards from the North Carolina High School Athletic Association in 2024 and 2025. The team average was above 3.95 both years.
No comments2025 Postseason Survey Results
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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.
Update on Level-Based Play Study
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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.
Official NCHSTCA Membership Now Open
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- Written by: Vic Ramsey
Greetings!
You've reached the new website, currently under development, for the NC High School Tennis Coaches Association.
While we do not yet have all the content we hope to have, the membership registration process is now live, and coaches can "officially" join the NCHSTCA by clicking on the "Join NCHSTCA" tab and following the prompts.