Guthrie In Running For National Athletic Director Of The Year
March 30, 2004 - Bobby Guthrie, Wake County Public School System athletics and driver education administrator, will be in New Orleans this week to be honored as the Southern Regional Winner of the National Council of Secondary School Athletic Directors by the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE).
The National Athletic Director of the Year will be selected from the six regional winners and announced at the NASPE's Hall of Fame Banquet Friday, April 2.
"As an outstanding athletic director, Bobby Guthrie has brought integrity, enthusiasm and dedication to the support of a quality athletic program and quality experiences for the student athletes in our county," said WCPSS Superintendent Bill McNeal. "At the middle school level, he implemented the WCPSS Sportsmanship Education Program that connected character traits identified by the system to sportsmanship-like behavior. He is an individual that is representative and supportive of the standards upon which a quality athletic program is built."
Guthrie has been in his current job as WCPSS athletic director for nine years. He was a teacher and baseball coach for one year at Apex Middle School. Prior to that he was coach of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington baseball team for eight years and assistant coach for six years. He was baseball coach at Scotland County High in Laurinburg, NC where his team won the state championship in 1977. He has been administering or coaching athletics in North Carolina for 30 years.
Guthrie's professional affiliations, activities and service have included membership in the North Carolina Athletic Directors Association, National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association, National Association for Sport and Physical Education/American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, North Carolina Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, and service on the board of directors for the Triangle Educational Advancement Foundation and the Triangle Sports Medicine Symposium.
"By making a significant impact on the lives of students, Bobby Guthrie has made an outstanding contribution to his school system and community," said NASPE President George Graham. "Guthrie is also recognized as an administrator of an exemplary athletic program and AN educator who keeps athletics an integral part of the total education program."
More information on NASPE is available at http://www.aahperd.org/naspe/
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