BOYS
1. Charlotte Myers Park 44
2. Northern Durham 37
3t Durham Hillside 24
3t West Rowan 24
5. North Forsyth 17
6t Richmond County 16
6t West Mecklenburg 16
8. Ahoskie 15
9t Clinton 14
9t Wilmington Hoggard 14
9t North Mecklenburg 14
9t Belmont South Point 14
13t Raleigh Athens Drive 12
13t Greenville J.H. Rose 12
13t Rutherfordton-Spindale Central 12
16. Eden Morehead 11
17t Cary 10
17t C.B. Aycock 10
17t Burlington Cummings 10
17t Fayetteville E.E. Smith 10
17t East Rowan 10
17t Greene Central 10
17t Hickory 10
17t North Iredell 10
17t Oxford Webb 10
26t Bunker Hill 8
26t East Forsyth 8
26t Pembroke 8
26t Person County 8
26t South Mecklenburg 8
26t West Craven 8
32t East Wake 6
32t Charlotte Harding 6
32t Lenoir Hibriten 6
32t Kings Mountain 6
32t Jamestown Ragsdale 6
32t Wilmington Laney 6
38. Jacksonville 5
39t Fayetteville Cape Fear 4
39t Charlotte Independence 4
39t North Moore 4
39t Williamston 4
43t Asheville Clyde Erwin 2
43t Garner 2
43t Goldsboro 2
43t High Point Central 2
43t Fayetteville Seventy-First 2
43t Shelby 2
43t Southern Durham 2
43t Western Guilford 2
51t Asheville A.C. Reynolds 1
51t High Point T.W. Andrews 1
51t Chapel Hill 1
51t Raleigh Millbrook 1
51t New Bern 1
51t Randleman 1
51t Southwest Randolph 1
Boys 100 Meters
Place Name Team Time
1 Alston Glenn Northern Durham 10.53
2 Donald Covington Richmond County 10.72
3 Kevin Mack Kings Mountain 10.75
4 Chris Cook North Mecklenburg 10.81
5 Harvey McSwain Shelby 10.90
6 Lee Perry Fayetteville EE Smith 10.91
200 Meters
Place Name Team Time
1 Alston Glenn Northern Durham 21.02
2 Ron King Charlotte Myers Park 21.54
3 Lee Perry Fayetteville EE Smith 21.56
4 Stanley King Clinton 21.66
5 Carlton Frazier East Mecklenburg 21.68
6 Phillip Jones Northern Durham 21.97
400 Meters
Place Name Team Time
1 Carlton Frazier East Mecklenburg 47.36
2 Ted Fronberger South Mecklenburg 48.65
3 James Hancock Ragsdale 48.97
4 Larry Wiggins Ahoskie 49.10
5 James Bunn Goldsboro 49.21
6 Gerald Mitchell Ahoskie 49.40
800 Meters
Place Name Team Time
1 Greg Roseboro Durham Hillside 1:51.39
2 Ken Dowdle Charlotte Myers Park 1:53.02
3 Randy Oaks North Forsyth 1:53.95
4 Tim Moore North Forsyth 1:54.22
5 David McClure Erwin 1:54.49
6 Steve Lewis Raleigh Millbrook 1:54.52
1600 Meters
Place Name Team Time
1 Jeff Hutchinson West Rowan 4:08.1
2 Ken Dowdle Charlotte Myers Park 4:08.4
3 Greg Roseboro Durham Hillside 4:15.0
4 Bill Cason Hickory 4:16.1
5 Kenny Smith Greenville Rose 4:16.5
6 David Neish Chapel Hill 4:18.2
3200 Meters
Place Name Team Time
1 Robert Baker North Iredell 9:26.60
2 Harry Williams Greenville Rose 9:26.90
3 Jeff Hutchinson West Rowan 9:33.51
4 Dick Larson Wilmington Hoggard 9:34.79
5 Ricky Wallace Garner 9:35.56
6 Jim Nicholson Randleman 9:36.35
110m High Hurdles
Place Name Team Mark
1 Clyde Hunt Oxford Webb 14.44
2 Rufus Harris West Craven 14.50
3 Jeff Williams South Point 14.56
4 Raeford Jones Charlotte Myers Park 14.68
5 Tommy Harris Southern Durham 14.69
6 Frank Harris SW Randolph 15.06
165 meter Low Hurdles
Place Name Team Mark
1 Stanley King Clinton 19.2
2 Jeff Williams South Point 19.2
3 William Furchess North Forsyth 20.0
4 Melvin Bynum Greene Central 20.0
5 Charles Smoot High Point Central 20.1
6 Rodney Watson Durham Hillside 20.4
4x100m Relay
Place Team Mark
1 Northern Durham 41.23
State Meet Record
(Phillip Jones David Umstead Arthur Glenn Alston Glenn)
2 East Forsyth 41.83
3 Richmond County 41.83
4 Charlotte Myers Park 41.94
5 Hickory 42.11
6 New Bern 42.26
4x220y Relay
Place Team Mark
1 Charlotte Myers Park 1:26.93
2 West Mecklenburg 1:27.43
3 Wilmington Laney 1:27.75
4 Hickory 1:28.2
5 Seventy-First 1:28.6
6 Fayetteville EE Smith 1:29.1
4x440y Relay
Place Team Mark
1 Ahoskie 3:17.28
(New State Meet Record - Yard distance)
2 West Mecklenburg 3:17.76
3 Durham Hillside 3:19.31
4 Fayetteville Cape Fear 3:19.9
5 Fayetteville EE Smith 3:23.2
Long Jump
Place Name Team Mark
1 Chris Michaels R-S Central 22-8.5
2 Charles Fleming West Rowan 22-8.25
3 William Holeman Northern Durham 22-6
4 Jeff Jackson North Moore 22-4.5
5 Tony Baker High Point Andrews 21-8.5
Triple Jump
Place Name Team Mark
1 Mike Gattis Burlington Cummings 48-0.75
2 Jack Cameron Person County 47-10.5
3 Melvin Bynum Greene 47-3.25
4 Steve Bullock Charlotte Independence 47-3
5 Frank Harrington Richmond County 47-1.5
6 William Richmond Durham Hillside 45-10.5
High Jump
Place Name Team Mark
1 Mike Ripberger Cary 6-8.5
2 Barry Uzzell Aycock 6-6.25
3 Greg Buckner Eden Morehead 6-6.25
3 Robert Eaves Jacksonville 6-6.25
5 Vincent Hamilton R-S Central 6-6.25
Pole Vault
Place Name Team Mark
1 Joshia Charleston East Rowan 14-0
2 David Beck East Wake 13-0
2 Joey Brumeloe Eden Morehead 13-0
2 Carl Tolbert Lenoir Hibriten 13-0
5 Ted King Greenville Rose 13-0
5 Clay Abernathy Reynolds 13-0
Shot Put
Place Name Team Mark
1 Bobby Morrison Wilmington Hoggard 59-9
2 Craig Brooks Pembroke 57-4.5
3 Darrell Harris North Mecklenburg 57-0
4 Charles Weddington North Mecklenburg 56-4.5
5 Than Emery Raleigh Athens Drive 55-6.5
6 Phillip Morris Western Guilford 55-5
Discus
Place Name Team Mark
1 Than Emery Raleigh Athens Drive 171-4
2 George Fox Bunker Hill 164-9
3 Mike Kydd Charlotte Harding 156-8
4 Vincent Peele Williamston 153-7
5 Derrick Davis Charlotte Myers Park 153-0
6 Phillip Morris Western Guilford 153-0
Note the relay distances. The 4x100 was run at the metric distance while the other relays were run at the yard distances. This was because NC State's track had not yet been converted from a 440-yard track to a 400-meter track.
The 75th annual NCHSAA boys championship was held at NC State University's Paul Derr Track in Raleigh.
All 4 classifications (4A-3A-2A-1A) competed together.
In 1980 NC State's track was still 440 yards. Metric distances were run for all events except for 4x220 yard and 4x440 yard relays.
Northern Durham ran an excellent 41.23 in the 4x100 meter relay. This was the first year the event was run over a metric distance. Their state meet record was unsurpassed for many years.
East Mecklenburg's Carlton Frazier set a 400 record of 47.36, superior (using the conversion) to the old 440-yard record of 48.1 (hand) by James Fields of New Bern in 1976.
Greg Roseboro (Hillside) set an 800 record (1:51.39) superior to the old 880-yard record of 1:53.9 by Tony Waldrop in 1969.
Athens Drive's Than Emery (171-4) repeated as discus champion, missing Mike Rodriguez's state record by just a foot and an inch.
Charlotte Myers Park, led by Ken Dowdle's second-place finishes in the 800 (1:53.02) and 1600 (4:08.4), compiled 44 points to win the team title. The Mustangs, coached by Richard Prince, won the 4x220 (1:26.93) and placed second in the 200 (Ron King, 21.54).
Metric distances were run for the first time at the girls' state meet in Raeford. At the time the NCHSAA made the decision to "retire" existing records, apparently including field events. Winning performances were listed as "records", even when intrinsically superior performances had been recorded by athletes in the 70s (e.g., Julie and Mary Shea, Lynn Lashley). NCPrepTrack.com has attempted in its archives to recognize records not as yard or metric records but by best performance ever for a given event (e.g., considering the 3200 and 2-mile as the same "event").
The 1980 girls meet included a future Olympian, Joan Nesbitt (East Mecklenburg) who won the 1600 in 5:05.7. Nesbitt competed in the 10,000 meters in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. She was a 1982 NCAA All-American in cross country while running for UNC.
