GIRLS
Team Scores:
1. Fayetteville E.E. Smith 40
2. East Forsyth 31
3. (tie) Richmond County 26
3. (tie) West Charlotte 26
5. (tie) High Point Andrews 24
5. (tie) Goldsboro 24
5. (tie) Southwest Edgecombe 24
8. Northern Durham 22
9. Charlotte Myers Park 20
10. (tie) Watauga 18
10. (tie) Fayetteville 71st 18
Girls 100 Meters
Place Name Team Time
1 Mamie Wilson Northern Durham 11.8
(New Meet Record)
2 Pam Belton Seventy-First
3 Priscilla Coleman Northeast Guilford
4 Dee Dee Slade Reidsville
5 Pam Braxton Jacksonville
6 Pam Monroe Eastern Randolph
200 Meters
Place Name Team Time
1 Pam Belton Seventy-First 24.8
2 Patricia Whitworth Gastonia Ashbrook
3 Vanessa Hammond Hickory
4 Gladys Best Goldsboro
5 Jessie McKnight Louisburg
6 Clara Hairston East Forsyth 25.8
400 Meters
Place Name Team Time
1 Tonja Jefferies Greensboro Page 56.6
2 April Cook Watauga
3 Nedra Franklin Camp Lejeune
4 Onelia Davis Greensboro Grimsley
5 Karen Burt Raleigh Millbrook
6 Vickie Weaver Durham Hillside
800 Meters
Place Name Team Time
1 Delphine Mabry SW Edgecombe 2:21.1
2 Kathy Ormsby Richmond County
3 Patricia Miller Asheville Reynolds
4 Jamie Cathcart East Forsyth 2:27.1
5 Denise Long Jacksonville White Oak
6 ?
1600 Meters
Place Name Team Time
1 Kathy Ormsby Richmond County 4:59.0
2 Delphine Mabry SW Edgecombe
3 Lene Hestdal Charlotte Myers Park
4 Leslie Ladd East Forsyth 5:18
5 Caroline Roff Tryon
6 Brenda Royster Oxford Webb
3200 Meters
Place Name Team Time
1 Lene Hestdal Charlotte Myers Park 11:26.2
2 Charlotte McCall McDowell County
3 Sherry Folk Forest Hills
4 Leslie Ladd East Forsyth 11:39.9
5 Renee Smith SW Edgecombe
6 ?
100m Low Hurdles
Place Name Team Mark
1 Clara Hairston East Forsyth 13.6
(State Meet Record)
2 Colette Williams Fayetteville Smith
3 Sonja Marshall Charlotte Olympic
4 Tracey Easter West Charlotte
5 Chrystal Holmes Northern Durham
6 Rosaline Pendergraph Chapel Hill
200m Low Hurdles
Place Name Team Mark
1 Sandra Nichols Thomasville 28.3
2 Sharon Suggs Goldsboro
3 Sonja Marshall Charlotte Olympic
4 Tracey Easter West Charlotte
5 Colette Williams Fayetteville Smith
6 Rosaline Pendergraph Chapel Hill
4x100m Relay
Place Team Mark
1 Goldsboro 48.6
(Lucas Hunter Finley Best)
2 High Point Andrews
3 East Forsyth 48.9
4 Fayetteville Ross
5 Northern Durham
6 Winston-Salem Parkland 50.6
4x200m Relay
Place Team Mark
1 High Point Andrews 1:40.5
(Roach Boyd Murray Leeper)
2 Northern Durham
3 Greensboro Dudley
4 Durham Hillside
5 Goldsboro
6 Charlotte Harding
4x400m Relay
Place Team Mark
1 Durham Hillside 3:58.90
2 Richmond County
3 High Point Anderews
4 Greensboro Dudley
5 Greensboro Grimsley
6 Wilson Beddingfield
Long Jump
Place Name Team Mark
1 Katrina Grier West Charlotte 20-1.25
2 Dee Dee Slade Reidsville
3 Colette Williams Fayetteville Smith
4 Delphine Mabry SW Edgecombe
5 Clara Hairston East Forsyth 19-2.5
6 Beverly Thompson Lumberton
Triple Jump
Place Name Team Mark
1 Colette Williams Fayetteville Smith 40-6
(New State Meet Record)
2 Katrina Grier West Charlotte
3 Pam Monroe Eastern Randolph
4 Lisa Thompson Fayetteville Smith
5 Vickie Watkins Thomasville
6 Theresa Hawkins Scotland County
High Jump
Place Name Team Mark
1 April Cook Watauga 5-6
2 Pat Pode East Rowan
3 Janet Bean Swansboro
4 Patricia Whitworth Gastonia Ashbrook
5 Jennifer Smith Smithfield Selma
6 Kathy Brown Fayetteville Westover
Shot Put
Place Name Team Mark
1 Faye Strothers Winston-Salem Parkland 42-11.5
2 Shunta Robinson North Mecklenburg 41-8.5
3 Sarah Gardner Davie County
4 Charleen Lang Farmville Central
5 Dee Majors Fayetteville Smith
6 Sabrina Barnes Hoke County
Discus
Place Name Team Mark
1 Doris Bloxson Scotland County 128-7
2 Dee Majors Fayetteville Smith
3 Ann Jones Western Guilford
4 Tammy Witherspoon Charlotte Myers Park
5 Evon Allen Forest Hills
6 Jacqueline Gandy Thomasville
At the NCHSAA boys championship the evening's most memorable performance was a 13.86 over the 110-meter high hurdles by William Cooper of East Forsyth. The Baptist College-bound athlete established a meet record that was still standing 23 years later (2004). 1981 was the second year that the event was run over a metric distance. Hillside's Charles Romes had run a hand-timed 13.6 over the slightly shorter 120-yard hurdles in the 1972 NCHSAA meet with Myers Park's Jeff Howser running a notable 13.6 on cinders in the 1966 Sectionals.
Charles Mack (N. Forsyth) cleared 6-10 1/4 to better the state meet high jump record of 6-10 set in 1978 by Robert Hicks of Scotland County, and matched by three others. West Craven's Marvin Jenkins also leaped 6-10 1/4, with Mack getting the win on fewer misses.
Mike Thurber (Greenville Rose) set a vault record (15-2) adding an inch to Alvin Charleston's record set in 1978. Thurber outjumped defending champion Josiah Charleston of East Rowan.
Northern Durham's Greg Neal won an excellent LJ competition with Forest Hills' Jimmy Allen, 24-4 to 24-3.25, just missing Greg Artis' state meet record. Third was Broughton's Ricky Wall (23-7 1/4), winner of the triple jump at 50-1 1/4, where four jumpers went 48-11 or better.
The 880-yard relay (804.67m) was run again, as in 1980 instead of the 800-meter relay since NC State's track was still in yards with most events lined off at a metric distance. Northern Durham sped to a record 1:25.50 for the event, running an estimated 1:25.01 equivalent for 800-meters. Team members were Dwayne McDaniel, Arthur Glenn, Greg Neal, and 200 winner Alston Glenn.
1981 was the first year that the 1600-meter relay replaced the longer mile relay. Fayetteville Smith won in 3:18.99.
This was the second year that metric events were run at the NCHSAA girls championship in Raeford. Timing was by hand.
Clara Hairston (East Forsyth) ran a notable record in the 100-meter Low Hurdles with a blazing 13.6 performance. The best comparable performance over the 110-yard hurdles (which was run in the 70s) was 14.2 by Stella Johnson from West Charlotte (1977). Hairston also scored a 5th in the long jump. She later starred at Auburn.
Colette Williams of Fayetteville Smith set a state record in the triple jump of 40-6, smashing the old record of 38-9 by Sue Heard of Jacksonville (1979). Williams' jump was reportedly better than the National Federation record in the event at that time.
Williams amassed 26 points of Smith's 40 points to lead them to the state crown.
Mamie Wilson (Northern Durham) ran a 100-meter record of 11.8.
Parkland's Faye Strothers won an excellent Shot competition with a heave of 42-11.5, edging North Meck's Shunta Robinson, who had beaten Strothers at the regional with a 42-10.5 performance.
