Spending an Afternoon with Coach Anthony Barnes and his extended Family 👪

Head Coach Anthony Barnes and Mr. Easter just before the Pre-meal Prayer.

Barnes has a gracious Host from start to finish today when he gathered his staff, his players and their families. Only Noah Manning was missing from the group today at the annual gathering held at the First United Methodist Church ⛪ of Hillsville.

We will start out with the 10 family 👪 photos 📷 from within the family..

Special Thank You to Paula Richardson for helping me with my count of the Family photos. I wanted to make sure that we have one for every group and it was Paula that reminded me that the Smoot photo 📷 counts as two !

The amount of affection that Barnes has for the members of his program was obvious to everyone inside of the Church ⛪. The next set of photos 📷 are of the program…

Appreciation was shown to a number of the behind the scenes contributing crew . Retiring Athletic Director Darrin Mathews was reckoned for his decades of service as was Russell Smoot (Video), Doug Reitzel ( score book) and he even took the time to acknowledge the efforts of us here at OneofUs.Care!

Barnes did a tremendous job in making sure that all five members of his coaching staff had an opportunity to participate in the presentation process. Watching the five coaches pass the ball around was reminiscent of how the Cavaliers looked on the floor this season.

Barnes also took time to Thank Kris Richardson for his years of service as his lead assistant. This portion included six of the long time teammates getting to tell their favorite Richardson memory.