Western Alamance Girls Soccer Reaches No. 1 in State Rankings

Western Alamance High School's girls soccer program claimed the top position in HighSchoolOT's statewide Top 25 rankings after the previous No. 1, Hough, dropped a 3-1 result to Cardinal Gibbons. The loss pushed Hough down the standings and moved Western Alamance up from second to first, while Cardinal Gibbons vaulted from fifth to second in the same update.

The End of Week 3 rankings, dated March 15, show Western Alamance at 4-0 to open the season. That unbeaten start sits alongside a longer season record of 24-0-1 that MaxPreps carries in its own tables, where the Warriors rank first in the Greensboro-area standings with a rating of 34.50 and a strength score of 9.8. MaxPreps places Western Alamance fifth in its North Carolina rankings and 34th nationally, where the team sits between Pope of Georgia at No. 33 and Charlotte Catholic at No. 35.

HighSchoolOT's update also reshuffled the bottom of the Top 25, with Hopewell, East Lincoln, and South Point entering the rankings in place of Seaforth, Wake Forest, and Weddington. Hopewell came in at No. 21 with a 7-0 record, East Lincoln at No. 22 at 7-1, and South Point at No. 23 at 6-1. The HSOT article references four new teams entering the Top 25 in one passage and three in another; that discrepancy has not been resolved in available materials.

The HighSchoolOT rankings cover any school belonging to the NCHSAA, NCISAA, NCCSA, or NCHEAC, and the outlet maintains two separate ranking sets: the statewide Top 25 and top-15 lists for each of North Carolina's six area codes.

The photo accompanying the HighSchoolOT rankings update, credited to Michael Mann Jr., shows Callie Athas wearing No. 9 for Western Alamance. The caption notes that Western Alamance defeated South Point in the NCHSAA 3A girls soccer state championship on May 30, 2025, a result that frames the Warriors' current No. 1 ranking as part of a sustained run of success for the program out of Burlington.