T.C. Roberson High School is a

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Asheville, North Carolina Asheville ( ) is a city in Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States. Located at the confluence of the French Broad River, French Broad and Swannanoa River, Swannanoa rivers, it is the county seat of Buncombe County. It is the most populou ...

. It is a part of the

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History

T.C. Roberson High School was established in 1962, when Valley Springs High School and Biltmore High School were combined to form one high school. It is named for Thomas Crawford Roberson, a former Superintendent of Buncombe County Schools and the architect of the consolidation of the former 21 Buncombe County high schools into the 6 Buncombe County high schools that exist today. Its school newspaper is the Golden Fleece. It has two feeder schools – Valley Springs Middle School and half of the students at Cane Creek Middle School.

Overview

T.C. Roberson is located right by W.W. Estes Elementary School, Valley Springs Middle School, as well as Charles T. Koontz Intermediate School, making it a convenient location for both parents and students. Roberson is also home to the Progressive Education Program (PEP) which is a program dedicated to students with both mental and physical disabilities. The PEP program allows these students to attend school and have the same opportunities as any other student, such as having gym class, art class, math and reading lessons, and getting to meet and interact with classmates. The current principal of the PEP program is Larry Wiegel.

Athletics

T.C. Roberson is affiliated with the

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(NCHSAA). Its team name are the Rams, with the school colors being blue and gold. Roberson's main rivals in athletics in the

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area are A.C. Reynolds High School and

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. The school is well known for being a powerhouse in basketball, soccer, cross country, swimming, tennis, and baseball. In 2025, the T.C. Roberson baseball team won its third consecutive 4A state championship, making them the first North Carolina 4A (the states former highest classification) baseball team to accomplish a three-peat. This also marked the school's seventh baseball state championship overall. In total, T.C. Roberson has had 4 alumni play

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, with 20 former T.C. Roberson baseball players having been drafted in the

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Notable alumni

Athletics

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— former professional baseball player and coach *

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— baseball player,

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* Darren Holmes — former

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pitcher and 1998

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champion with the

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* Joel McKeithan — MLB coach *

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— MLB player and 2017 World Series champion with the

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* Christian Moody — former

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player * Chris Narveson — former MLB pitcher *

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— professional soccer player with the

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, and Montreal Impact * Roy Williams — retired men's basketball head coach at the

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and the

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Other

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— poet and essayist * Robert A. Phillips — George R. Gardiner Professor of Business Ethics,,

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References

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School History
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