After spending five seasons as the Mavericks’ head coach, and four more at Hopewell before that, McNeil, 49, told The Observer he is leaving to take a job at Jamestown’s Ragsdale High School.

Michael McNeil is returning from Mecklenburg County to coach boys basketball at his alma mater Ragsdale. “I have always said that if I left Charlotte, it would be to come back and coach here,” McNeil ...