Wells Fargo Cup Tells The Problem

The NCHSAA released the final standings of the 2014/2015 Wells Fargo Cup state wide in each of the four division in North Carolina.   Each conference has a Fargo Cup champion and the points per conference plus the playoff points gives the overall champion per bracket.  Most private schools, charters and prep schools are small and just looking at the final standings tells a tale of the fight on going between some Wake County conferences and Cardinal Gibbons.

The final top ten in 1-A as the best overall athletic teams are number one Kernersville Bishop MCGuinness.  They are a private Roman Catholic school with 550 students founded in 1959.  Second is Community School of Davidson.  It is a public charter  school located in Davidson .  Third is Raleigh Charter a public charter school founded in 1999 with more than 550 students.  Fourth is Lincoln Charter of Denver .  It is a tuition free charter school. Sixth is Mooresville Pine Lake Prep.  Started in 2007 is a charter school with students from k-12.  Total enrollment is 1300 students.  Seventh is Winston Salem Prep.  It is a public charter school in Winston Salem with 320 high school students.

The  school that is second in Wells Fargo points in 2-A is Lake Norman Charter.  It is a public charter school in Huntersville which has grades 5-12 with 1600 students.  The larger the schools less and less are private, Prep and charter.  First in the cup standings in 3-A is Cardinal Gibbons.  It has an enrollment of 1420 students  and is a private Catholic school.  The number three school in the 4-A Fargo Cup is Charlotte Catholic.  They have only 1400 students.

Six of the top seven schools in 1-A are either prep, charter or Private schools. The number two in 2-A, number one in 3-A and number 3 in 4-A.  It is easy to see where the 4-A conferences in Raleigh are nervous  about schools who have no boundaries and are growing where the public school sector are limited to districts and only grow when the population in that district  grow.  The charter and prep schools have the same athletic advantages the parochial schools have.  All you are hearing
 About now is the fight with Cardinal Gibbons but with more charter schools opening everyday the public school sector will not support those schools staying members of the NCHSAA much longer either.