Schools with the most NCHSAA boys cross country team and individual championships

The first N.C. High School Athletic Association boys cross country championship was held in 1956, and the there have been a number of changes since then.

• There was only one team champion until 1986, when it went to three classes: 4A, 3A, and 1A/2A.
• 1A and 2A were split apart in 1997, giving the NCHSAA four champions each year.
• During the pandemic-influenced 2020 season, the 2020 championship was actually held in the 2021 calendar year, in January.
• There have been five different host sites: UNC-Chapel Hill hosted the championships from 1956-1977, followed by Campbell University in 1978-79 McAlpine Park in Charlotte from 1980-2001, Tanglewood Park in Clemmons from 202-2009, and then Kernersville (previously named Beeson Park, now the Ivey Redmon Complex) has hosted in from 2010-present.

Chapel Hill has the most team titles (11) followed by Myers Park (nine) and Broughton and Sun Valley (eight each).

There has never been a four-time individual champion, but there have been four three-time champs: Hickory's Ryan Hill, Chapel Hill's Taylor Gilland, and two from Swain County — Tommy Trehern and Erik Perkins. Twenty-three runners have won the state title twice.

Swain County and Chapel Hill are tied with the most individual champs (six) with Myers Park, Watauga, and Mount Tabor with five each. Watauga has had five different runners win the title, and no other school has had more than four different runners take first.

NCHSAA Boys Cross Country Team Championships By School

Asheville

• 1962 (all classes)

Bishop McGuinness

• 2012 (1A)
• 2013 (1A)
• 2014 (1A)
• 2017 (1A)
• 2021 (1A)

Brevard

• 2021 (2A)
• 2023 (2A)

Broughton

• 2007 (4A)
• 2008 (4A)
• 2011 (4A)
• 2012 (4A)
• 2013 (4A)
• 2014 (4A)
• 2016 (4A)
• 2019 (4A)

Bunker Hill

• 1990 (1A/2A)

Cardinal Gibbons

• 2006 (2A)
• 2011 (3A)
• 2012 (3A)
• 2014 (3A)
• 2020 (4A)

Carrboro

• 2010 (2A)

Cary

• 2018 (4A)

Chapel Hill

• 1979 (all classes)
• 1980 (all classes)
• 1981 (all classes)
• 1982 (all classes)
• 2005 (4A)
• 2006 (4A)
• 2009 (3A)
• 2010 (3A)
• 2016 (3A)
• 2019 (3A)
• 2020 (3A)

Croatan

• 2022 (3A)
• 2023 (3A)

East Chapel Hill

• 2002 (3A)
• 2003 (3A)

East Davidson

• 2003 (2A)

East Lincoln

• 2009 (2A)

East Mecklenburg

• 1960 (all classes)
• 1973 (all classes)
• 1986 (4A)
• 1990 (4A)
• 1991 (4A)
• 1992 (4A)

East Wilkes

• 2007 (1A)

Franklin

• 1991 (3A)
• 1993 (3A)
• 1994 (3A)
• 1995 (3A)
• 1996 (3A)

Gray Stone Day

• 2009 (1A)

Green Hope

• 2010 (4A)
• 2017 (4A)
• 2022 (4A)

Grimsley

• 1970 (all classes)
• 1971 (all classes)
• 1984 (all classes)

Havelock

• 1997 (3A)

Hayesville

• 2005 (1A)
• 2008 (1A)

Hendersonville

• 1963 (all classes)
• 1964 (all classes)

Jordan-Matthews

• 1997 (1A)

Lake Norman Charter

• 2016 (2A)

Leesville Road

• 1995 (4A)
• 1997 (4A)
• 1998 (4A)

Lejeune

• 2023 (1A)

Lincoln Charter

• 2018 (1A)
• 2019 (1A)
• 2020 (1A)

Manteo

• 1991 (1A/2A)

Marvin Ridge

• 2023 (4A)

Millbrook

• 1993 (4A)

Mooresville

• 2006 (3A)
• 2007 (3A)
• 2008 (3A)

Monroe

• 1987 (1A/2A)

Mount Tabor

• 1988 (4A)
• 1989 (4A)
• 2015 (4A)
• 2017 (3A)
• 2021 (4A)

Murphy

• 1994 (1A/2A)

Myers Park

• 1956 (all classes)
• 1957 (all classes)
• 1958 (all classes)
• 1959 (all classes)
• 1961 (all classes)
• 1966 (all classes)
• 1967 (all classes)
• 1968 (all classes)
• 1969 (all classes)

NCCSM-Durham

• 1989 (1A/2A)
• 2006 (1A)
• 2011 (1A)
• 2013 (2A)
• 2014 (2A)
• 2015 (2A)

North Henderson

• 1996 (1A/2A)
• 1997 (2A)
• 1998 (2A)
• 2001 (2A)
• 2002 (2A)

North Lincoln

• 2011 (2A)
• 2012 (2A)
• 2017 (2A)
• 2018 (2A)
• 2019 (2A)
• 2020 (2A)
• 2021 (3A)

North Mecklenburg

• 1965 (all classes)
• 2000 (4A)
• 2001 (4A)

Owen

• 2004 (2A)
• 2005 (2A)
• 2007 (2A)
• 2008 (2A)
• 2022 (2A)

Pine Forest

• 1985 (all classes)
• 1987 (4A)

Pinecrest

• 2004 (4A)

R.J. Reynolds

• 1974 (all classes)
• 1975 (all classes)
• 1976 (all classes)
• 1977 (all classes)
• 1978 (all classes)

Ragsdale

• 2000 (3A)
• 2001 (3A)

Robbinsville

• 2010 (1A)

Salisbury

• 1986 (1A/2A)
• 1999 (2A)

Seventy-First

• 1972 (all classes)

South Davidson

• 2000 (1A)

South Stanly

• 2022 (1A)

South View

• 2003 (4A)

Sun Valley

• 1986 (3A)
• 1987 (3A)
• 1988 (3A)
• 1989 (3A)
• 1990 (3A)
• 1992 (3A)
• 1998 (3A)
• 1999 (3A)

Surry Central

• 1992 (1A/2A)
• 2000 (2A)
• 2001 (1A)
• 2002 (1A)
• 2003 (1A)
• 2004 (1A)

Swain County

• 1998 (1A)
• 1999 (1A)

T.C. Roberson

• 1983 (all classes)
• 2004 (3A)
• 2005 (3A)

Walkertown

• 2015 (1A)
• 2016 (1A)

Watauga

• 1994 (4A)
• 1996 (4A)
• 1999 (4A)

Weddington

• 2013 (3A)
• 2015 (3A)
• 2018 (3A)

West Henderson

• 1993 (1A/2A)
• 1995 (1A/2A)

West Stanly

• 1988 (1A/2A)

NCHSAA Boys Cross Country Individual Champions By School

Andrews

• 2022, O'Malley Salinas (1A)

Ardrey Kell

• 2020, Murphy Smith (4A)

Ashe County

• 2002, Preston Holman (2A)

Asheville

• 2001, Milos Mitric (3A)
• 2008, John Harwell (3A)

Atkins

• 2020, Walter Sellers (2A)

Athens Drive

• 2023, Noah Valyo (4A)

Brevard

• 2016, Noah Graham (2A)

Broughton

• 2004, Sandy Roberts (4A)
• 2014, Jeremy Brown (4A)
• 2015, Jeremy Brown (4A)

Bunker Hill

• 1987, John Kaneer (1A/2A)

Cardinal Gibbons

• 2006, Sean Sewell (2A)
• 2011, Steven Phillips (3A)
• 2016, Connor Lane (4A)

Cary

• 2012, Bakri Abushouk (4A)
• 2018, Anton Idhammar (4A)

Cedar Ridge

• 2011, A.J. Tucker (2A)
• 2012, A.J. Tucker (2A)

Chapel Hill

• 1966, Frank Spratt (all classes)
• 1971, Tommy Ward (all classes)
• 2005, Jack Bolas (4A)
• 2006, Taylor Gilland (4A)
• 2007, Taylor Gilland (4A)
• 2008, Taylor Gilland (4A)

Christ the King

• 2023, Blake Nicholson (1A)

Clayton

• 1988, Chad Daniels (1A/2A)

Concord

• 1977, John Clark (all classes)

Corvian Community

• 2021, Jacob Fiorillo (1A)

Durham*

• 1964, Truett Goodwin (all classes)

East Chapel Hill

• 2018, George Hotelling (3A)

East Forsyth

• 2009, Patrick Crawford (4A)

East Henderson

• 2012, Tanis Baldwin (3A)
• 2014, Tanis Bladwin (3A)

East Wilkes

• 2008, Eric Blackburn (1A)
• 2015, Kyle Rhodes (1A)

Eastern Alamance

• 2009, Jake Hurysz (3A)

Eastern Guilford

• 1987, Chris Griggs (3A)

Enka

• 1969, Ben Bailey (all classes)
• 1986, David Honea (3A)

First Flight

• 2018, Zach Hughes (2A)

Franklin

• 1993, Eli Huge (3A)
• 1994, Chan Pons (3A)
• 2017, Nathan Richards (2A)

Franklin Academy

• 2019, Aaron Rovnak (1A)
• 2020, Aaron Rovnak (1A)

Fuquay-Varina

• 1996, Jesse Norman (3A)
• 1997, Jesse Norman (3A)

Garinger

• 1960, Rocky Soderburg (all classes)
• 1992, Robert Easter (4A)

Glenn

• 1995, Justin Turner (3A)

Grimsley

• 1993, Joey Farlow (4A)

Harnett Central

• 2002, Jesus Rojas (3A)

Hayesville

• 2006, Kyle Ingram (1A)
• 2012, Dylan Johnson (1A)

Hendersonville

• 1962, David Starnes (all classes)
• 1963, David Starnes (all classes)

Hickory

• 2003, Jeremy Hyder (3A)
• 2005, Ryan Hill (3A)
• 2006, Ryan Hill (3A)
• 2007, Ryan Hill (3A)

Hillside

• 1967, Silas Mayfield (all classes)

Independence

• 1968, Steve Grathwahl (all classes)

Jacksonville

• 2004, Chris Bifiore (3A)

Lejeune

• 1986, Chad Blair (1A/2A)

Madison

• 2007, Josey Weaver (2A)

Maiden

• 2013, Corbin Boyles (2A)

Millbrook

• 1991, Jason Page (4A)
• 2003, Nick Hutchins (4A)

Mitchell

• 2013, Zach Boone (1A)
• 2014, Zach Boone (1A)

Mount Airy

• 2009, Matus Kriska (1A)
• 2010, Matus Kriska (1A)

Mount Tabor

• 1989, Brant Armentrout (4A)
• 2017, Cameron Ponder (3A)
• 2001, Matt Debole (4A)
• 2002, Matt Debole (4A)
• 2021, Will Soule (4A)

Mountain Heritage

• 1995, Jonathon Thacker (1A/2A)

Myers Park

• 1956, David Gilmour (all classes)
• 1957, David Gilmour (all classes)
• 1958, Tom Stockton (all classes)
• 1959, Tom Stockton (all classes)
• 1980, Ken Dowdle (all classes)

NCSSM-Durham

• 2007, Daniel Kimmel (1A)
• 2011, Stephen Mulherin (1A)
• 2014, Nicholas Walker (2A)
• 2015, Frank Kenny (2A)

North Buncombe

• 1990, Eric Pragle (3A)

North Forsyth

• 1986, Lee Tuttle (4A)

North Henderson

• 1996, Aaron Keller (1A/2A)
• 1997, Shiloh Mielke (2A)
• 1998, Shiloh Mielke (2A)
• 2000, John Henderson (2A)

North Iredell

• 1981, Robert Baker (all classes)

North Lincoln

• 2019, Jason Thomson (2A)

North Mecklenburg

• 1965, John Puckett (all classes)
• 2000, Steve Hass (4A)

Northern Durham

• 2010, Blake Williams (4A)

Northern Guilford

• 2015, David Melville (3A)
• 2016, David Melville (3A)

Northwest (of Winston-Salem)**

• 1961, Paul Snell (all classes)

Northwest Cabarrus

• 1988, Chris Edwards (3A)
• 1989, Chris Edwards (3A)

Northwood

• 2004, Taylor Adams (2A)
• 2010, Eric Williams (2A)

Olympic

• 1970, Woody Moss (all classes)

Orange

• 1997, Bradsher Wilkins (4A)
• 1998, Bradsher Wilkins (4A)
• 2022, Gabriel Schmid (3A)
• 2023, Gabriel Schmid (3A)

Page

• 1987, Vince Howard (4A)
• 1990, Paul Kinser (4A)

Panther Creek

• 2019, Ian Harrison (4A)

Person

• 1995, Buddy Priest (4A)

Pine Lake Prep

• 2017, Conrad Phillips (1A)

Pinecrest

• 1973, Jeff Moody (all classes)
• 1974, Jeff Moody (all classes)
• 2022, Zack Gilbertson (4A)

Polk County

• 2003, Neil Waldron (1A)
• 2018, Caleb Potter (1A)

Providence

• 2013, Wyatt Maxey (4A)

R.J. Reynolds

• 1979, Tony Leal (all classes)
• 2017, John Tatter (4A)

Ragsdale

• 2000, Lance Hall (3A)

Reidsville

• 2001, Adam Lindsey (2A)
• 2003, Daniel Slayden (2A)

Rocky Mount

• 1996, Nick Winkel (4A)

Rosman

• 2001, Matt Owen (1A)

Salisbury

• 1999, David Bost (2A)

Sanderson

• 1975, Billy Lynch (all classes)
• 1976, Billy Lynch (all classes)

Seaforth

• 2022, Jack Anstrom (2A)
• 2023, Jack Anstrom (2A)

South Davidson

• 2000, Clarence Kinley (1A)

South Point

• 1978, Glenn Sparrow (all classes)

South Stokes

• 2005, Sam Brinson (1A)

Southeast Guilford

• 1982, John Erickson (all classes)
• 1983, John Erickson (all classes)

Southwest Guilford

• 1993, Bill Jackson (1A/2A)
• 1994, Bill Jackson (1A/2A)

Stuart Cramer

• 2021, Zachary Willer (3A)

Sun Valley

• 1991, Bryan Smijewski (3A)
• 1992, Bryan Smijewski (3A)
• 1998, Kevin Crosby (3A)
• 1999, Kevin Crosby (3A)

Surry Central

• 1989, Jason Bryant (1A/2A)
• 2002, Eric Martinez (1A)
• 2004, Miguel Ocampo (1A)
• 2005, Miguel Ocampo (2A)

Swain County

• 1990, Tommy Trehern (1A/2A)
• 1991, Tommy Trehern (1A/2A)
• 1992, Tommy Trehern (1A/2A)
• 1997, Erik Perkins (1A)
• 1998, Erik Perkins (1A)
• 1999, Erik Perkins (1A)

T.C. Roberson

• 1984, Paul Carpenter (all classes)

Terry Sanford

• 2013, Phillip Hall (3A)

Vance (of Henderson)***

• 1972, William Sutherland (all classes)

Voyager Academy

• 2016, Luke Bennett (1A)

Watauga

• 1985, Mike Clinebell (all classes)
• 1988, Patrick Phillips (4A)
• 1994, Will Hodges (4A)
• 1999, Ricky Brookshire (4A)
• 2019, Avery Cannon (3A)

West Charlotte

• 2011, Mark Blackmon (4A)

West Stanly

• 2008, Daniel Yeakley (2A)

Wilkes Central

• 2009, Chase Miller (2A)

Williams

• 2010, Graham Crawford (3A)
• 2020, Ryan Motondo (3A)

*was closed in 1995, and Durham School of the Arts was opened on the same campus.

**was later consolidated into North Forsyth High School.

***was later split into Northern and Southern Vance, which were then later re-consolidated into what is now Vance County High School.