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Watt Williams of Broughton has been named the Gatorade North Carolina boys soccer player of the year.Williams, a senior midfielder, helped Broughton to a 28-0-1 record and the N.C. High School Athletic Association 4-A championship.The 5-foot-10, 148-pound Williams scored 16 goals and had 33 assists in 2007 and had 44 goals and 76 assists in his career.Williams earlier had been named the player of the year by the N.C. Soccer Coaches Association and had been named to the National Soccer Coaches Association of America All-America team.Williams, who has a 4.5 overall grade point average, is committed to N.C. State.NEW AD: Former Tarboro coach April Ross is the new athletic director at Carrboro High.Ross coached girls basketball, softball, track, tennis and volleyball at Tarboro High, leading the school to the state 2-A girls basketball final in 1990.She has been in athletic administration for the past seven years at Columbus (Ohio) Briggs High."She has a lot of the qualities and leadership traits we had to have ... for an individual coming mid-year into a position," Carrboro principal Jeff Thomas said."She's very articulate. She's very experienced and she's from North Carolina, so she's familiar with the area. ... She's very much what we needed right now."Stephen Reinhardt resigned from his athletic director duties in December because of health problems.Ross said her vision for the program is to have a comprehensive program with successful student-athletes.ALL ACES: Former Ravenscroft golfer Henry Zaytoun III, the N&O boys golfer of the year in 2007, went from no aces to two aces in three days.Zaytoun had his first career hole-in-one Saturday. He used a 4-iron on the 211-yard No. 17 at National Golf Club in Pinehurst.On Monday, the University of North Carolina golfer aced the 225-yard No. 12 hole at Finley Golf Course in Chapel Hill. He used a hybrid.SWIMMING: The NCHSAA 3-A and 4-A swimming and diving championships begin today.The 4-A diving competition will be held today at the University of North Carolina's Koury Natatorium.The swimming preliminaries begin at 9:15 a.m. Saturday with the swimming finals at 5 p.m.The 3-A diving will be at N.C. State's Casey Aquatic Center with the swimming at the same site on Saturday.The Enloe boys are attempting to win their 10th straight 4-A swimming title.INDOOR TRACK: Southeast Raleigh is the defending champion in both boys and girls in the NCHSAA indoor track and field championships that will be held Saturday at the Eddie Smith Indoor Arena in Chapel Hill.The 1-A/2-A/3-A championships begin at 9 a.m. Saturday. The 4-A meet is scheduled to start at 4 p.m.1,000 POINTS: Ravenscroft senior Dominic Parker scored his 1,000th point in Tuesday's 83-53 boys basketball victory over North Raleigh Christian. He is the ninth boys player in school history to score at least 1,000 points in his career.
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