Roanoke Rapids High School Principal Robert Hurley will be among those honored when the North Carolina High School Athletic Association holds its 2013 annual meeting.

The event is scheduled for the Dean E. Smith Center on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Thursday, May 2, the day after the spring meeting of the NCHSAA's Board of Directors has concluded.

The Association annually presents these statewide awards in several different categories, all based on those "who have done the most for high school athletics" rather than a single accomplishment or having an outstanding won-loss record. 

The awards are named in memory or in honor of outstanding individuals in each category, five of whom are current members of the NCHSAA Hall of Fame. The state winners for 2013 include:

Hurley is slated to receive the Bob Deaton Principal of the Year award. Hurley is a long time educator with 34 years of experience.  

He has been the principal at Roanoke Rapids for six years, after serving as principal at Pamlico for two years, at Northern Nash for 15, and Southeast Halifax for a year.

He also has extensive coaching experience at the high school level, including in football, basketball, golf and soccer, serving as head soccer coach at Hoggard for five years, an assistant football coach at Jacksonville for 10 and also coached varsity basketball there.  

He was the Roanoke Rapids Graded School District Principal of the Year in 2012.