Sometimes in the world of interscholastic sports being great can be described by competitors as being too good! A small Black owned and operated prep school has apparently stirred up a hornet’s nest running up a remarkable string of football victories against a variety of competition!
North Carolina Tech Preparatory Christian Academy, located in Charlotte, North Carolina, has compiled a record of 76 wins and only six losses over the last seven years playing and beating almost any and every school that agreed to compete against them.
After scoring 50, 60 and up to 90 points a game on several prep schools, junior colleges, Division 3, Division 2 and Division 1 JV teams, the NC Tech haters began to come out of the wood work.
“Some people don’t like us,” said NC Tech Coach Tim Newman, “because we turn young people that were considered nothing into something. We recruit student athletes that had poor academic backgrounds or substandard SAT scores that virtually no other school wanted and assist them in becoming better students, better athletes and even better young men.”
Instead of throwing student athletes a football, on the first day of reporting to prep school, NC Tech players are all given a Bible. The school has partnered with the Ben Salem Presbyterian Church and student athletes are required to attend church every Sunday morning.
“Over the past two years, more than 100 NC Tech student athletes have been saved,” according to Coach Newman. “Before they get a playbook or a textbook, they are given the playbook of life. And, before the first three games of the season, NC Tech players are required to recite three Bible verses in order to receive their uniforms.”
It is not unusual that the moral victories and football wins accomplished by the school were accompanied by jealousy and envy by the schools, players and coaches that were devastated by the NC Tech Tigers on the football field.
National sports networks and internet bloggers were quick to rush to judgment and to seek ways to disparage the success of NC Tech. A couple of non-performing players and their parents, along with bloggers possibly associated with defeated football programs were paraded across television screens and internet web sites to give irrelevant and unwarranted false accounts and suspicious statements about NC Tech policies and procedures.
“Imperfection is a label that can be placed on any school in the world,” explained Coach Newman, “but NC Tech attempts to abide by every rule and regulation applicable to operate a prep school program.”
“Only the students that do the right thing, work hard to increase their grade point averages and test scores, get opportunities to move on to colleges and other institutions of higher learning.” Coach Newman emphatically stated, “We never promise student athletes that agree to come to NC Tech that they will get automatic scholarships to LSU, Alabama, Florida State or some other Division 1 football school.”
In the last five years, North Carolina Tech Christian Academy has had 77 student athletes go on to play D 1 football and 94 D 2 players and 47 junior college players. That is a total of 218 kids that did not have the necessary requirements to go to a 4 year school. These were kids that were shutout, second chance kids that people had shut the educational door on them.
One former student athlete that NC Tech helped to accomplish his goals was NFL Pittsburg Steeler Antonio Brown, a spectacular wide receiver and Pro Bowl Player from Miami, Florida. NC Tech has assisted and trained athletes that subsequently studied and played at schools like Auburn University, the University of Kentucky, Nebraska, Arkansas, Florida International University, Carson -Newman, Shaw University, Johnson C. Smith University and many other schools.
SAT and GPA are the biggest requirements for students to receive scholarships to college. History has shown that many African American high school students sometimes perform poorly on standardized tests like the SAT and the help students receive at NC Tech in test taking and in reading and math studies has resulted in remarkable progress and upward educational mobility.
Other student athletes that attended NC Tech include Floridians Lester Jean (Florida Atlantic University and Houston Texans), Marquis White (University of South Florida) and Stanley Jean Baptiste (University of Nebraska). Carolinians Farrington Huguenin (University of Kentucky) and George Richardson (Western Carolina University).
Absolutely no other prep school program in the United States can match the record on the football field or in the class rooms that North Carolina Tech Christian Academy prep school has.
Even Jesus Christ had haters and every other institution or individual that does good things will generate lies, false reports and incorrect assessments about programs that produce great students, great football players and great men!
Students and parents that are interested in playing for the undisputed most winning and successful prep school football program in the United States while also getting a life lesson in Christian ways and values can contact the administrators and coaches at North Carolina Tech Preparatory Christian Academy, 2331 Brownpoint Executive Drive, Suite H, Charlotte, North Carolina, 28227.
While the NC Tech student athletes are preparing for a productive life and a higher education, the 2012 football opponents of NC Tech can prepare for a smack down and a beat down!
By Lucius Gantt
DO NOT SEND YOUR CHILD TO NC TECH. ESPN DID A DOCUMENTARY ON OUT MUCH OF A SCAM THIS SCHOOL IS.
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=7373115
Do not send your child to NC Tech . Coach Newman is a fake he said his teams won National Titles which is not true when he runs away from the power house prep programs like Milford Academy , Hargrave, Atlanta Sports Academy and Fort Union. He doesn’t want to play those schools because NC Tech is not the best!
There you go hating again. My son went to NC Tech. He had a great experience there. He was able to get his test score. Why are you hating on the man. You don’t have anything better to do. They are getting it done on the field and kids are going to school. They say Tech has 76 Div 1 players. Looks like from the website they got 7 more on signing day. You should be ashame, trying to put someone down. It is easy to talk about someone doing something. What are you doing? Tech will play anyone that wants to play. Who is really making these comments?
Anytime you write something about a school, you get mixed reactions. You will not succeed at NC Tech or any other school if you cannot read letters, contracts and agreements that spell out policies, procedures, costs and expectations. I understand how disappointed some parent may be if her child was not able to move on to a D-1 football program but I can also understand the parents of student athletes that perform well on the field and off and do the necessary studying and learning to better their grades and test scores. Those students progress. If you say EVERYTHING is “bad” or “good” at any school, even Sunday school, you would be lying!
I understand they are haters in the world but check the facts about this program. Ask youself, Are they sending players to college? Yes not all major D1 but they are getting a chance to play football on scholarship and GET A EDUCATION. Do they get exposore? Yes my son and the team got a chance to vist schools like W.Va and U of Pittsburgh. Thats all I need to know, if we would have done what we were suppose to do in HS we would not have even gone to a prep school. They also play good teams like Fork Union and have beatn them thats how I orginally found out about the program after a Fork Union loss.
It is crazy how people try their best to damage a school’s image when they don’t even know what goes on. My son spent 6 months at NC Tech and it was one of the best experiences he has had. It was very good competition for him, the coaching was very good. I was not so interested in the athletic part as I was in the religion part. There was church every Sunday and several weeks of bible study. My son has changed through this experience and I thank NC Tech for this.
N.C. Tech is a joke. I coached there and I am owed over 200.00 from Newman which I still have not received. He is a fake and a phony. Go to Youtube and look up the fight they had in 2010. A great god loving person would not allow his team to do something like get in a fight with north georgia. Also it is a NCAA vciolation for d1 schools to have jayvee teams so that is a lie. Thye never played Marylands jayvee team because Maryland doesn’t have a jayvee team and they never won a national championship because there is no prep school national championship. These are facts check them out.
You back up to your hating again. First you need to get your facts right. NC Tech did play Maryland’s JV in 2008 before the rule was changed. And how would you know anything about a prep school national championship. Second maybe instead of coaching at a prep school you need to attend one to learn how to spell. You must be a competator. I’m going to check to see if you worked there, you are the fake. You need to be careful. You don’t know if this can be tracked or not.
I have enough dirt on Tim Newman to ruin his career forever.
Including, but not limited to, a rape one of his players was involved in that he himself covered up. How do I know? Because I was one of the people he threatened to fire if I didn’t do what he asked. I know half of these “big name” players you speak of and none of them would have amazing things to say about NC Tech. Ask former Ohio State QB Justin Siems if NC Tech was an amazing experience for kids. This is not hating, this is the truth and you best believe if the Feds ever come knocking on my door I’m spilling the beans. One thing Timothy always said was “document everything”…. Oh I have it documented alright.