GIRLS
Team Scores:
1. Northern Durham 42
2. Richmond County 36
3. (tie) Watauga County 28
3. (tie) Jacksonville 28
5. Charlotte Garinger 25
6. Fayetteville 71st 24
7. Charlotte Myers Park 22
8. Durham Hillside 20
9. Concord 18
10. South Mecklenburg 17
100 Meter
Place Name Team Time
1 Carla McLauglin Northern Durham 11.7
(New State Meet Record)
2 Teresa Allen Charlotte Garinger 11.9
3 J. Miller Polk Central 11.9
4 Linda Gillis Fayetteville Byrd 12.2
5 Kim Scott Raleigh Enloe 12.5
200 Meter
Place Name Team Time
1 Carla McLauglin Northern Durham 24.3
(Tied State Meet Record)
2 Teri LeBlanc South Mecklenburg 24.7
3 J. Miller Polk Central 24.8
4 Kim Scott Raleigh Enloe 25.4
5 Smith Fayetteville Sanford 25.5
6 Teresa Allen Charlotte Garinger 25.7
400 Meter
Place Name Team Time
1 April Cook Watauga 55.6
2 Mary Carraher Lee County 57.3
3 Lois Baker Rocky Mount 58.0
4 Teresa Gillespie South Rowan 58.1
5 Paula Tucker Wilson Fike 58.4
6 Samantha Scales Eastern Guilford 59.3
800 Meter
Place Name Team Time
1 Kathy Ormsby Richmond County 2:18.1
2 Diane McMahon Chapel Hill 2:19.0
3 Leah Ann Miller North Rowan 2:20.5
4 Sharonda Thompson Seventy-First 2:21.7
5 Lisa Muckenfuss Western Guilford 2:29.7
6 Carmen Nordman South Mecklenburg 2:23.9
1600 Meter
Place Name Team Time
1 Kathy Ormsby Richmond County 4:56.8
2 Carolyn Roff Tryon 5:08.8
3 Charlotte Carlson Northwest Cabarrus 5:11.8
4 Robin Andrews Western Guilford 5:14.0
5 Betty Chermak Raleigh Athens Drive 5:19.2
6 Huggins Eastern Wayne 5:19.7
3200 Meter
Place Name Team Time
1 Kathy Ormsby Richmond County 11:08.4
2 Charlotte McCall McDowell County 11:23.5
3 Charlotte Carlson Northwest Cabarrus 11:23.6
4 Cindy Little Asheville TC Roberson 11:33.0
5 Betty Chermak Raleigh Athens Drive 12:27.3
6 Lynette Parker Wilmington New Hanover 12:28.9
100m Hurdles
Place Name Team Time
1 Ida Pendergraft Durham Hillside 14.3
2 April Cook Watauga 14.5
3 Jackie Humphrey Jacksonville 14.5
4 Patricia Massey Charlotte Independence 14.5
5 Ann Hall Winston-Salem Reynolds 15.2
6 Jeanne Douglas Richmond County 16.2
200m Hurdles
Place Name Team Time
1 Ida Pendergraft Durham Hillside 28.5
2 Thindya Cunningham North Gaston 29.1
3 Jackie Humphrey Jacksonville 29.3
4 Wanda Foster West Rowan 29.5
5 Patricia Massey Charlotte Independence 29.7
6 Jeanne Douglas Richmond County 29.9
4x100m Relay
Place Team Time
1 North Mecklenburg 48.4
(Janet McAfee Brenda Howze Samantha Harris Louann Wynn)
2 Northern Durham 48.7
3 Charlotte Garinger 49.3
4 Seventy-First 49.9
5 Southern Pines Pinecrest 50.0
6 High Point Andrews 50.3
4x200m Relay
Place Team Time
1 Northern Durham 1:42.0
(Denise Dorty Yolanda Taylor Debra Dorty Carla McLaughlin)
2 Seventy-First 1:44.2
3 Charlotte Independence 1:44.4
4 Wilson Fike 1:44.6
5 High Point Andrews 1:45.3
6 High Point Central 1:46.3
4x400m Relay
Place Team Time
1 Wilson Fike 3:58.5
(Sonya Anderson Ophelia Williams Debby Pearson Paula Tucker)
2 Seventy-First 4:00.2
3 Greensboro Grimsley 4:00.9
4 Richmond County 4:02.1
5 South Mecklenburg 4:09.0
6 High Point Andrews 4:10.2
Long Jump
Place Name Team Time
1 Teresa Allen Charlotte Garinger 19-6.75
2 Catherine Sander Winston-Salem Parkland 19-3.75
3 Jackie Humphrey Jacksonville 18-11.5
4 Sharon Clayton Northern Durham 18-10.25
5 Latonya Wynn Southern Pines Pinecrest 18-6
6 Louann Wynn North Mecklenburg 17-6.5
Triple Jump
Place Name Team Time
1 Sherrie Clark Jacksonville 39-5
2 Alma Bethea Goldsboro 38-8
3 Vicki Watkins Thomasville 38-6.5
4 Latonya Winn Pinecrest 37-7.75
5 Lettia Hamilton Kannapolis AL Brown 37-0.75
6 Patrina Massey Charlotte Independence 36-5.75
High Jump
Place Name Team Time
1 April Cook Watauga 5-8.25
(New State Meet Record)
2 Cindy Floyd Swansboro 5-6
3 Teri LeBlanc South Mecklenburg 5-5
4 Katrina Swanson Charlotte Myers Park 5-4
5 Cete Wittmann Durham Jordan 5-1
6 Wendy Tucker Lejeune 5-0
Shot Put
Place Name Team Time
1 Katrina Swanson Charlotte Myers Park 39-11.75
2 Carmen Safrit Concord 39-8.75
3 Ida Pierce Fayetteville Byrd 39-0
4 Willa Wallace Concord 38-8.75
5 Sabrina Barnes Hoke County 38-8.75
6 Susan Childers Havelock 36-6.75
Discus
Place Name Team Time
1 Wanda Haythe Oxford Webb 133-5
(New State Meet Record)
2 Katrina Swanson Charlotte Myers Park 133-0
3 Willa Wallace Concord 117-1
4 Vanessa Hatch High Point Andrews 114-1
5 Ida Pierce Fayetteville Byrd 108-3
Delton Hall (Greensboro Grimsley) destroyed the 400 meter record with a 46.41 clocking. The old record was 47.30 set the previous year by Raleigh Broughton's Chris Brooks. His 46.41 was still the state meet record 30 years later (as of 2013). Hall was also second in the 200 and ran a leg on Grimsley's second-place 4x400. Hall's efforts, along with Reuben Davis' winning discus throw and Allen Ford's second (3200) and third (1600) led Grimsley to the team title, 12 points ahead of runner-up Jacksonville.
Hall went on Clemson where he was first team All-ACC in football and later played five years in the NFL with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
This was the second year that the 300m hurdles were run. Fike's Izel Jenkins bettered the previous state meet record with a 37.33.
Lee McRae sped to a 10.53 100 meters, tying the state record set in 1980 by Northern Durham's Alston Glenn.
John Tillman leaped 50-8 in the triple jump, the second best ever behind Greg Artis' 51-5.5 in 1977. Tillman later became a standout at the University of Tennessee and competed in the triple jump at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona.
Jim Farmer (Raleigh Broughton) won the 1600m in 4:11.0 and was 5th in the 3200m (9:24.5). He ran at UNC-Chapel Hill and was 19th in the 1986 NCAA Cross Country Championships, and 2nd in the 1987 US Cross Country Championships. Farmer later went on to be ranked 9th in the US for the 5000 in 1989 and 1991, 7th in 1992, and 10th in 1993. [source]
Besides Delton Hall, others participating in this meet who went on to later success as professional athletes included: Myers Park's Haywoode Workman (3rd in the 110 hurdles) who played several years in the NBA, primarily with the Indiana Pacers; Grimsley's Reuben Davis (1st, Discus) who played football at UNC and later for 11 seasons in the NFL as a defensive tackle with the Buccaneers, Cardinals, and Chargers; Broughton High's Danny Peebles, 2nd in the LJ (23-8 3/4) and 4th in the 200 (21.66) played with the Tampa Bay Bucs and the Cleveland Browns; Wilson Fike's Izel Jenkins (1st 300H 37.33) played for the Eagles, Vikings and Giants; and Lumberton's Tim Worley (4th 100, 5th 200) who played for the Steelers.
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This was the last year that the girls state meet was hand timed. Three state meet records were broken, and one tied.
Carla McLaughlin (Northern Durham) ran 11.7 to break the 100 record of 11.8 set in 1981 by Northern Durham's Mamie Wilson. McLaughlin came back to tie the 200 record (24.3) set in 1980 by Gwen Ray (Smithfield-Selma).
Watauga's April Cook cleared 5-8.25 to better the meet record of 5-8 set by Chris Arends (Durham Jordan) in 1979. Cook won the 400 in 55.6 - a performance bettered previously in state meet history only by Lisa Sherrill (Durham Jordan) who ran 54.8 (440y) in 1978.
Wanda Haythe (Oxford Webb) broke the meet record in the discus with a throw of 133-5. Five inches behind, also bettering the record was Myers Park's Katrina Swanson. The old record (132-8) was set in 1978 by Myers Park's Becky Brown.
Kathy Ormsby (Richmond County) won a notable 800-1600-3200 triple (2:18.1, 4:56.8, 11:08.4). Her 4:56 and 11:08.4 had been bettered only by the Shea sisters in the mid 70s (4:43.1/4:46.0 miles, and 10:03.5/10:25.1 2-miles).
Garinger's Teresa Allen won the long jump with an excellent leap of 19-6.75, after jumping 20-2.75 the previous week at the regional. Allen became the best jumper in state history after the legendary Kathy McMillan, who soared 22-3 seven years earlier.
