High School Sports

More than 3,000 high school students across over 40 counties are enrolled in North Carolina’s first varsity esports and STEM league, which aims to encourage and prepare students for STEM careers.

The often-heated debate puts transgender athletes at the center of an issue without a clear middle ground.

New state legislation would prevent transgender women and girls from competing on sports teams that match their gender identity.

Brooklyn Harker is a safety for the Chapel Hill Tigers' varsity football team. But she's no longer an anomaly. She's part of a growing trend of more girls playing tackle football.

Senate Republicans have shelved a proposal to end the North Carolina High School Athletic Association’s oversight of interscholastic sports. They replaced it Thursday with one requiring constraints upon the group’s finances and transparency in decision-making activities.

North Carolina's House speaker says the legislature won’t advance legislation preventing transgender girls and women from competing in school sports labeled for biologically female athletes.

Republican sponsors have named it the "Save Women’s Sports Act” and the point is fair play, but critics say it violates transgender girls' rights.

The state House measure filed this week comes as legislators in nearly 30 other states have proposed similar prohibitions. At least two states have passed laws.

A group of Republican state senators want to increase limits on spectators at outdoor high school athletic events. Their proposal would allow high school…

High school basketball season is beginning with a mask mandate.Games don't tip off until January, but tryouts start this week. And the North Carolina High…