Later today I’ll get to hang out with our very own Coaching Legend, Volleyball 🏐 mentor Cindy Edwards

Barbara Mandrel once had a hit song 🎵 titled ” I was Country before Country was Cool ” and later Ted Turner leaned into her song by saying ” I was Cable before Cable was Cool”.

Along those same lines, Coach Edwards and I go back aways. It would be fun to say that we grew up and went to different schools 🏫 together (insert laughter ) but we built our relationship together well before anything else in Carroll County took place.

Coach Edwards is getting ready to start another season of CCHS Volleyball 🏐 and I would tell you exactly what number is but Coach hides the identity of that number well.

There are some that might think she is concerned about showing her age but I lean towards the thought that she truly can’t remember. Each year her focus is on being the best leader of her program possible 💜.

The list of reasons that Edwards and her program are near and dear to Linda and I begin with the fact the Volleyball 🏐 is Lin’s favorite sport. She played some at the small College level a lifetime ago and loves 💘 the game to this day.

Reason #2 is I live in a World 🌎 were I love the underdogs. This is the main reason I am such a huge fan of the Duke University Football program. The gridiron 🏈 version of the Blue Devils is one of the ultimate underdogs in our Country.

This ties 👔 back to Volleyball 🏐 because its the Girls 👧 sport that plays opposite Varsity 🏈. In a effort to chase equality for each High School 🏫 program, VB in the fall is the leader of the pack when it comes to underdogs. Different from Duke Football, Coach Edwards has a long history of success on The Hill.

Coach Edwards is closing in on a monumental # in the World 🌎 that is High School sports – 500 victories in a single sport.

It’s a safe bet that a volleyball player that attends today’s Junior Varsity and Varsity tryouts will be on the court the night 🌙 that the milestone victory takes place.

If there’s a third and fourth reason that Volleyball season is extra special it would be Mama Petty and Trenton Miller. These are two special people that I rarely see outside of a VB match.

Coach and I go way back and later today we will take a look at her latest groups of Volleyball players. Junior Varsity tryouts begin at 4pm and Varsity starts at 5pm!