Rabun Gap Girls win Back-to-Back State Basketball Championships

The Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School 2023 varsity girls’ basketball team made history with their back-to-back NCISAA state championship title on Saturday, February 25, 2023.  The girls, led by Head Coach Dale Earnhardt, upset Cannon School in a 53-43 victory.  This is the second state championship for girls’ basketball in the program’s 50+ year history.  This is the first girls’ team to win a back-to-back state championship in school history.  This is the fourth NCISAA team state championship for Rabun Gap in the past two years (boys soccer also won a back-to-back state championship this fall and there have been past state individual state champions in wrestling and track & field).  This was the fifth trip to the state championship game and tenth time in the Final 4 over the past 15 years.  The Rabun Gap girls finished the season with a 25-7 record.  Coach Earnhardt earned his 400th career win this season as well.  Players on the team are from North Carolina, New York, Turkey, Spain, Canada, Poland, and Finland.