Chapel Hill High School's athletic director, Ronnie Hayes, has resigned to take on the job of athletic director at Northern Guilford High School in Greensboro.

He'll take on a program that has had its problems. Northern Guilford won the state 3-A basketball championship but had to forfeit the season when it was discovered that the team included ineligible players. The school also forfeited games in baseball, wrestling and junior varsity softball.

Northern Guilford's principal and athletic director resigned, and the Guilford County school district is conducting an investigation.

Hayes took on the AD's job at Chapel Hill in 2005. In his first year at CHHS, the school captured the Wachovia Conference Cup for the best overall athletic program in the Piedmont Athletic Conference, and the Tigers were fourth in the 4-A Wachovia Cup competition for the top program in the state.

Bouncing Bulldogs win another national title

The Bouncing Bulldogs Jump Rope Team of North Carolina earned its sixth National Champion team title at the USA Jump Rope (USAJR) National Age Division Championship in Galveston, Texas, June 25-27. The Bulldogs competed against 72 other teams from 41 states.

In speed competition, Bouncing Bulldogs team members broke two age division records and won the overall Speed Team title. In the 12 & under Age Division, the Single Rope Speed Relay Team consisting of Ilana Fried, Madeline Futch, Aninda Manocha and Morgan Smith scored 681 to break their own previous age division record of 680, which they set at the 2009 Region 2 Qualifier in North Carolina.

Ilana Fried, Madeline Futch and Morgan Smith set a new 12 & under age division record in Double Dutch Speed Relay with a score of 617. The previous record of 590 was set by Bouncing Bulldogs team members in 2007.

Mary Hunter Benton tied the female 18 & over age division record in consecutive triple unders, and received the Grand National Champion Award in Female Triple Unders for her score of 264 (the number of consecutive triple unders times 2).

In the USAJR Freestyle Competition, the Bulldogs placed second in Small Group Team Show. Earning six gold, four silver and one bronze medal in freestyle events, along with several fourth- through 10th-place finishes, the Bouncing Bulldogs bounced to another Overall Freestyle team title.

In addition to winning the Overall Speed Team and Overall Freestyle Team Awards,the team had the top All Around individuals of the competition.

In the Female Junior Division, Morgan Smith won first place, Madeline Futch was second and Anna Reeb was third.

In the Female Senior Division, Mary Hunter Benton was first and Erica Zenn was second.

Tar Heels finish second in Directors Cup competition

The University of North Carolina finished 2008-09 in second place nationally in the Learfield Sports Directors Cup, the 14th time in the 16-year history of the award Carolina is the highest finishing school in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

The runner-up showing is Carolina's best finish since a tie for second in 1997-98. UNC won the award in 1993-94 and also was second in 1994-95 and 1996-97.

The Directors Cup, run by the National Association of College Directors of Athletics (NACDA) measures a school's postseason success in men's and women's sports. Each school is ranked based upon its 10-highest men's and 10-highest women's finishes.

The second-place finish in the Directors Cup marked the seventh top 10 finish by the Tar Heels in the last eight years, including top four showings in 2006, 2007 and 2009. By comparison, the other 11 ACC schools have a total of five top 10 finishes -- and none in the top four -- in Directors Cup history. The Tar Heels have averaged a sixth-place finish in the award's history.

The 2008-09 season was one of the finest in Carolina history. The women's soccer and men's basketball teams won NCAA championships, men's soccer and women's lacrosse reached the NCAA finals, the baseball team advanced to the College World Series for the fourth year in a row and the football team played in the Meineke Car Care Bowl. UNC became the first school in ACC history to play in the men's basketball Final Four, the College World Series and a football bowl game in the same year. Twenty-three Tar Heel sports qualified for NCAA postseason play.

Stanford won the award for the 15th straight year with 1455 points. The Tar Heels were second with 1184.25 points, 11.5 ahead of Florida. Southern California, Michigan, Texas, California, Virginia, LSU and Ohio State rounded out the top 10.

This year, two UNC sports -- women's soccer and men's basketball -- won their 100th game all-time in NCAA Tournament play. The soccer team's 100th win came in the national championship game against Notre Dame. The basketball team hit the century mark in the regional final against Oklahoma. The Tar Heels added two more wins in the Final Four against Villanova and Michigan State. Both women's soccer (100) and men's basketball (102) hold the record for most NCAA Tournament victories.