Editing Thomasville, North Carolina (section)

==Local sports==

===Thomasville Senior High Bulldogs===
Thomasville Senior High School Bulldogs won the state 1AA Football Championship from 2004 to 2006, and again in 2008. Also, the Thomasville Senior High School has a marching band, The Scarlet Regiment. In November 2008 the band traveled to Greensboro, NC where they participated in Asymmetrix Ent. National High Stepping Band Competition. The band placed first in the preliminary round beating over twenty bands from Washington DC all the way to Alabama. Overall in the competition they placed fifth.

The Thomasville Bulldogs are well known throughout the state for excelling in athletics, especially football.<ref name="Coble">{{cite web |url=http://coble.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=37951 |title=U.S. Congressman Howard Coble : 6th District of North Carolina |access-date=2008-10-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081013224052/http://coble.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=37951 |archive-date=2008-10-13 }}</ref>

The 1995 Bulldogs were the first team in the history of NC football to go 16–0.<ref name="Coble" />

In 2005, The Bulldogs were the first school in the history of NC athletics to win championships in football, women's basketball, and men's basketball and men's soccer in the same year.<ref name="Scout">{{cite web |url=http://hsnorthcarolina.scout.com/2/360131.html |title=Scout.com: NCHSAA Men's and Women's Championship Tidbits |access-date=2009-01-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716021135/http://hsnorthcarolina.scout.com/2/360131.html |archive-date=2011-07-16 }}</ref>

==== Championships ====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Award
! Years
|-
| Football State Champions
| 1964, 1988, 1991, 1995, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008
|-
| Basketball State Champions (Men's)
| 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2007
|-
| Basketball State Champions (Women's)
| 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
|-
| Wrestling State Champions
| 1960, 1961, 1962, 1973, 1991
|-
| Soccer State Champions (Men's)
| 2005
|}

=== High Point-Thomasville HiToms ===
Thomasville is also home to the [[High Point-Thomasville HiToms]] of the [[Coastal Plain League]], a [[Collegiate summer baseball|collegiate summer baseball league]] sanctioned by the [[NCAA]]. The HiToms won the 2006, 2007 and 2008 Petitt Cup, the Coastal Plain League Championship. The HiToms play at Historic [[Finch Field]] in Thomasville, which was built in 1935. From 1937 to 1969, Finch Field was the home to many minor league teams. [[Baseball Hall of Fame|Hall of Famers]] such as [[Eddie Mathews]] once played for the High Point-Thomasville HiToms of the original [[Coastal Plain League (Class D)|Coastal Plain League]].