Welcome to a Highly anticipated Friday that will begin in Laurel Fork with stops ✋ in Salem, Hillsville and finally Lawrenceville, Georgia and the entire day is possible because Mr. DeHaven is going to report on the Swimming 🏊‍♂️ Cavaliers up at the Swim RVA in Richmond.

Not going to call him Coach on this one because its his role as a Father that’s going to help everyone keep up to date on as much of the CCHS action as possible.

Here’s what we know going in – the Lady Cavaliers are the #1 seed and have a Bye tonight.

The Boys team is hosting Hidden Valley at 6pm in the #7/#10 contest with the winner earning a trip to Tunstall on Tuesday.

The Boys 🏊‍♂️ Team will wake up in the Richmond area here in a few hours and will be in the Pool from 9am until Noon in the State preliminary round. Anyone advancing to the Finals will be back in the Pool at 5pm.

Four members of the Wrestling team will be awake soon in Salem but we aren’t sure how many of them will be able to enjoy breakfast before heading to the Civic Center for the weigh-in process at 8am.

The Wrestling meet will be a double elimination format with 16 people competing in each Wright class.

Then it will be back to Hillsville for the 6pm tip against the Titans before the five hour drive down to the Atlanta area ahead of the West Virginia Tech Golden Bears Baseball weekend.

The coverage from the Civic Center in Salem can happen because of Mr. DeHaven offering to keep us up to speed on the Laps being swam in the pool.

There wasn’t a way to try and choose one over the other when they are competing on an equal stage so I was leaning on doing both of them after the fact but now its possible for Live coverage of the Athletes as they try to cap off their year of hard work and dedication to their Sport.

Let’s have some fun with a HUGE day for all of the Cavaliers that will be competing for CCHS today!

I’m going to a rare thing in the World 🌎 of writing ✍, I will start out saying that if you’re not a fan of Women’s Hoops you should save yourself 10 minutes by skipping over this story because I don’t think you will enjoy it.

Everyone has things in their life that they feel are just not quite right with ones point of view. Some are more serious than others but I tend to leave those topics for more serious people. I do however feel strongly that the game of Women’s Hoops is treated as a coattail relative of the Men’s game.

Tonight we have #9 Duke playing at #11 Virginia Tech on a Thursday evening. There is zero question about this being the biggest regular season match-up of the Atlantic Coast Conference season.

The game is a Win-win for me as a Long Time Iron Dukes member and a fan that spent many a night across a decade watching Kenny Brooks guide our James Madison University Dukes. Kenny has a bit more gray in his beard but there was never a doubt that he was the man that Tech needed at the wheel of their program.

While I have never campaigned about the Men’s game and the Women’s game being equal, I do believe that there’s no reason for it to be a Nickle on the Dollar. Aja Wilson and Bre Stewart don’t need LeBron and Steph money but is there room to close the gap ? The person that I have had this discussion with more than anyone else with over the years is Chris Graham.

I’m not sure if I have moved the needle but I feel good for trying to do so. Before heading to Blacksburg for the game tonight I reached out to Mr. Graham to ask the question ???

How many people would need to walk through the doors at Cassell Colesium (capacity – 10,400) for the game to qualify as relevant ? The answer was 50%, now while I wasn’t smart enough to gain amitdence in Durham back in the early 1980’s I am capable of doing enough math to realize I need 5,200 fans to hit that mark.

For those who haven’t watched VT play basketball this season they play a style of defense that would make Coach Tony B up in Charlottesville pretty proud. Tonight they held the #9 team in the Country to 14 first half points.

Whether or not we break the imaginary line of 5,200 could come down to the counting system that is used for Women’s Basketball in the ACC. If its like the American League in baseball where they count tickets sold or the National League where its the number of folks that pass through the turnstiles.

We will have to wait and see what the final attendance is but here’s two things I can already tell you (1) They saw a high quality basketball game and (2) 97% percent of them will leave here Happy!

Thank You Kenny Brooks and Kira Lawson for pushing the game in the right direction because my Main Man Geno and Dawn Staley need all the help they can get because its a Long Journey.

No disrespect to the Fighting Irish , Wolfpack or the Cards programs in deeming this one the Cream of the Crop but when you add VaTech’s dislike of the Blue Devils its not even that close this year.

In the final practice before tomorrow night’s opening round game with Hidden Valley, Coach Barnes is leading his team through the steps leading up to the contest.

Best of Luck to the Cavaliers !

Athletic Director Darrin Mathews called the Law to the High School this morning for all of the right reasons. A trio of officers escorted the Boys Swim 🏊‍♂️ Team and the Wrestling Team to the Highway this afternoon as they begin their chase of competing for State Championships.

The Swim 🏊‍♂️ Team will begin their competition tomorrow morning from 9am to Noon in Richmond in the preliminary stages. Any participants that punch a ticket to the Finals will be back in the Pool at 5pm Friday.

The Wrestling Team will not actually be leaving until the end of the school day being Salem is a whole lot closer than Richmond.

Everyone appeared to be in High Spirits but sadly with the distance between Swim RVA and the Salem Civic Center is will be pretty tough for anyone to show crossover support for our Cavaliers.

We will do our best to provide all of the coverage on both events that we can gather.

Godspeed on the journey 🙏 and Best of Luck in the events !