Extra Effort Coverage

Extra Effort: Malaki Dobbins leads by example at Southern Nash

Malaki Dobbins has been described as hardworking, dedicated, and kind.

Extra Effort: Corinth Holders High School senior Alayna Gaddy

Corinth Holders High School senior Alayna Gaddy is at home on the diamond, but shines because of her ability to make others feel welcome.

From the Vault: Payton Wilson wins Extra Effort Award

Before he was a stud linebacker for the Wolfpack, he was a standout at Orange High School. After his final home game with the Wolfpack, WRAL Sports went into the vault to 2017, when Wilson was named the winner of the Tom Suiter Extra Effort Award.

Extra Effort: Cape Fear Christian Academy's Ella John Dupree

There are multi-sport athletes. Then, there's Ella John Dupree. WRAL Sports' Pat Welter explains why the Cape Fear Christian Academy senior is more than an Extra Effort Award winner, she's a one-woman show.

Extra Effort: Mackenzie Davis has the recipe for success

Pat Welter has the story

Tom Suiter Extra Effort Award Winner - Carlee Tart

Jason Jennings reports

Tom Suiter inducted into the NC Sports HOF

Former WRAL Sports Anchor Tom Suiter's acceptance speech at the NC Sports Hall of Fame banquet.

Extra Effort: East Chapel Hill's Alicea Davis

Tom Suiter Extra Effort Award winner, Alicea Davis

Extra Effort: Rolesville's Sterling Elliott hits all the right notes

Sterling Elliott plays linebacker and the viola for Rolesville High School

Extra Effort: Rolesville's Sterling Elliott hits all the right notes

Sterling Elliott plays linebacker and the viola for Rolesville high school

Pat Welter

Extra Effort: Lee County football's TJ Johnson uses his brain and his brawn to succeed

TJ Johnson can diagnose a play with the best of them. Someday he hopes to perform actual surgery too.

Pat Welter

Lee County's TJ Johnson wins Extra Effort award

TJ Johnson relies on his brain just as much as his brawn to play linebacker at Lee County High School. He can diagnose a defense with the best of them. Someday he hopes to perform actual surgery too.

Lee County's TJ Johnson wins Extra Effort award

Lee County's TJ Johnson wins Extra Effort award

Midway's Rylie Williams wins Tom Suiter Extra Effort Award nearly 30 years after her father won

Terry Williams won the Tom Suiter Extra Effort award in 1992. Nearly 30 years later his daughter, Rylie, is making it a family tradition.

Pat Welter

Midway's Rylie Williams wins Tom Suiter Extra Effort Award

Nearly thirty years after her father won, Rylie is making it a family tradition.

Extra Effort winner Zettel never a fish out of water when it comes to setting a standard

For as much time as Brooke Zettel spends in the water training to represent our country, the Apex Friendship senior manages to accomplish so much more.

Jared Fialko

Family and faith: the driving forces which make Extra Effort winner Sigmon a success

Kaden Sigmon's known only one school his entirely life, and it's helped shape him into the young man and budding baseball player he is today.

Jared Fialko

Extra Effort Award: Louisburg High School's Darrius Crudup

Crudup is described as "a glue guy" at Louisburg.

Louisburg's "glue guy" and Extra Effort Award Winner brings everyone together

Louisburg High School enjoyed a spectacular football season, advancing all the way to the Regional Finals. Darrius Crudup played a major part in that team's togetherness.

Jared Fialko

Never one for the spotlight, Princeton's "workaholic" Wooten wins Extra Effort Award

Meredith Wooten may always be one to deflect attention, but we couldn't ignore her accolades deserving of the Tom Suiter Extra Effort Award.

Jared Fialko

"Gritty" Extra Effort Award Winner Pearce gets what she sets her mind on

North Johnston High School's Arial Pearce has known her college destination for quite some time, but that hasn't stopped her from compiling an impressive high school resume.

Jared Fialko

Extra Effort Award: Scott Casagrande does it all at Bunn

For the first time in 13 months, we have a winner of the Tom Suiter Extra Effort Award!

"Find a way:" the signature motto for Extra Effort Award Winner Casagrande of Bunn HS

Several student-athletes go above and beyond for their alma mater, but perhaps none in the fashion that Scott Casagrande has for Bunn High School.

Jared Fialko

Extra Effort: Where are they now? D.C. Ramey

D.C. Ramey went out on a high note, that eventual state championship wound up being the last football he ever played. He had an offer to continuing running the offense at Wofford University.

Extra Effort: Where Are They Now? D.C. Ramey

When our "Where Are They Now" series began, one of the first suggestions came from longtime Ravenscroft football coach Ned Gonet, on one of his former stud quarterbacks.

Jared Fialko