T. C. Roberson High School

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T.C. Roberson is a high school in the Buncombe County Schools System in Asheville, North Carolina. It is located at 250 Overlook Road, Asheville, NC 28803. Roberson has about 1,500 students. Its school newspaper is the Golden Fleece, and its mascot is the Ram. Roberson has won the AAA Wachovia Cup (award for best overall athletic program in the state of North Carolina) three straight years and five times since the Wachovia Cup was created in 1979. Roberson excels in cross country, baseball, track and field, basketball, soccer, football, and tennis. Roberson's main rivals in athletics in the Asheville area are A.C. Reynolds High School and Asheville High School.

It has two feeder schools - Valley Springs Middle School and half of the students at Cane Creek Middle School.

[edit] Notable alumni

• Roy Williams - men's basketball head coach, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Darren Holmes - Retired major league baseball pitcher - Dodgers, Brewers, Rockies, Rockies, Yankees, Diamondbacks, Orioles, Cardinals, Braves
• Chris Narveson - major league baseball pitcher - St. Louis Cardinals
• Cameron Maybin - major league baseball player - #10 overall draft pick 2005 in the major league baseball draft by the Detroit Tigers
• Tony Baldwin - Associate Superintendent - Buncombe County Public Schools
• William Murdock - Author, Director of the Eblen Foundation
• Thomas Crawford Roberson- Founder of T.C. Roberson High School
• Christian Moody - Men's basketball player, and starter for the Kansas Jayhawks
• Anne Ponder - Chancellor UNCA University of North Carolina at Asheville

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