Richwalski Steps Down

Today will be the last day that Dan Richwalski is the athletic director at Northern Nash. Dan had a health issue during the Christmas break and in order to take care of his health he is stepping down as AD.  I do a lot of talking with AD's preparing to do broadcast.  Despite the benefits that athletes receive either being on TV or heard on the radio the broadcast business can be a pain to the athletic director.  High schools don't have someone else in the office to turn it over to somebody else they have to do what is needed themselves.

It has been a joy working with Dan at Northern whenever we have been there to do games.  He has helped in any way he could to make sure Northern's athletes got the proper exposure that broadcast can give them.  Dan will remain as a class room teacher until he decides it's time to retire when ever that might be.  Patricia Haggerty who coaches just about everything either varsity of jv's for Northern will be the acting AD for the remainder of the school year.  Northern will announce a new AD later.

Saturday during the North Carolina Football Coaches Association winter meetings two local veteran coaches were elected as Honorary coaches.  An Honorary coach can be any coach  in North Carolina  who has coached and been a member of the association 30 years or more and is no longer and active coach.

Those two locals were B W Holt who spent six years at Rocky Mount on the way to winning well over 300 games in his public high school career and Raymond Cobb who spent his entire coaching career in Edgecombe county at North Edgecombe and SouthWest Edgecombe. The NCFSA has been selecting Honorary coaches since 1990 and have average about three coaches a year joining the elite selection as Honorary coach of the North Carolina Football Coaches Association.

Nash Central has moved on to the semi finals of the Big East boys basketball tournament.  Monday they dumped Fike 63-43 to end Fike's basketball season.  The Bulldogs as the #3 seed will play Rocky Mount the #2 Wednesday night at 7.30pm. Southern Nash as the #5 seed has beaten Northern Nash 50-38.  Northern now must cross their fingers that someone will beat SN either Wednesday (Hunt) or Friday in the finals.  Should Southern win the tournament this week they would knock Northern out of the playoffs and  Southern would be in.

Girls swing into action tonight at Hunt high as the Big East Tournament.  Rocky Mount plays Southern Nash at 6pm and Hunt plays Fike at 7.30.  Hunt and Rocky Mount need victories if one loses and not the other tonight then the loser will be seeded fourth in the State playoffs from the Big East.

During a telephone conversation tonight with Wes Bradshaw he made me  aware that the state basketball playoffs do not start until Feb. 25th which will put the playoff  teams in the Big East off for a week.  I don't know if this is the reason but I know coaches don't like the idea of winning the conference tournament on a Friday night and starting  the playoffs the following Monday. I need to find out why they are doing it this year that way.