The official T-shirt 👕 for the State Meet

It’s official now !

Getting the sand ready for the Long Jump !

They have just announced that due to the inclement weather due in this afternoon they will be speeding up the process to try and beat the weather. It won’t effect our duo but it will effect almost everyone else.

I have been asked to man 👨 the performance board for the Class 4 and then the Class 3 Discus!

10:00-Update Both events are still in Class 4 so our Athletes are still in the wait and see mode.

10:45 – Linda is at the Long Jump and I’m at the Discus. Both spots are still in the Class 4 portion of the competition.

The Brain Trust that felt I was their correct Volunteer !

11:12am – Corrie has been called to check in along with the other Class 3 Girls 👧

11:18am – Boys 👦 Class 4 Discus is complete

11:38 – Elijah takes his initial practice throw

Event is now set to start at Noon

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Elijah Smith has completed his first round tosses with his best effort being 125.0

Linda reports that Corrie has jumped for the first time -16.05 feet

Elijah has qualified for the Finals !!!!!

William Byrd ended the Girls 👧 Soccer ⚽️ season with a 4-0 opening round match in Vinton and they were just getting started. WBHS netted five goals (5-0) against a 20-1 Magna Vista team to capture the Region Championship.

On the Boys 👦 side, their season ended at the hands ( and feet) of Bassett 1-0 in the opening round and the Bengals would take a 20-0 Magna Vista team into OT before falling 3-2.

Best of Luck to the four teams that will go on to represent the Region in the State Tournament next week.

Cave Spring also captured the Baseball ⚾️ Championship over Abingdon, 14-4

Both Cave Spring teams will host QF opponents while Northside and Abingdon will take to the road.

When the Wrestling team went to Salem for the State Tournament earlier this year I was awestruck by the fact that those young men would wait 3 hours for a shot at possibly Wrestling for 2 to 6 minutes before waiting 3 or 4 hours to do it again.

Earlier today Freshman Corrie Delp woke up at her home in Carroll County and then had some breakfast before heading to CCHS with her Family 👪 to meet up with the remainder of the Track and Field traveling party.

The next step was the 2 hour and 20+ minute drive 🚗 to the campus of Liberty University in Lynchburg. Next you have the check in process ahead of trying to stretch out the body kinks of the day. Then you wait out the heats ahead of you that included hurdles on the track before you are allowed to set up in the lane you have been assigned (Lane 6). Corrie was then 9 hours into her day when the starters gun 🔫 went off and Miss Delp got out of the blocks quickly and flew down the track for 13.25 seconds. Her time was good enough for second place in her heat with three more heats to follow. The top 8 runners 🏃‍♂️ would come back on Saturday afternoon for the Finals and it wasn’t until the fourth and final heat that Delp fell from the Top 8.

Her time was the second best posted by a Freshman and tied for 10th overall but would later be bumped down to 11th in the tiebreaker.

The margin separating the runners 🏃‍♂️ was wire thin and I tried my best to catch the blur created by Corrie and came close if not for the late photo bomb by the Hat Lady.

Miss Delp did herself, her family 👪 and her school 🏫 proud during those 13+ seconds !