Top to bottom, Tauren Wells will be performing at a Church in Greensboro that seats 💺 3,000 and we will get to meet him before the performance.
Middle – Vickey Ritchie will be conducting her Carroll County Special Olympics Basketball 🏀 again today and being a small part of it whenever we are in town is uplifting !
Lower – Stephen Puckett, standing 🧍♂️ next to Tammy Quesenberry in this photo 📷, is about to preach his Sermon at the Chapel 💒 on the corner.
Today we will spend time with three pretty Awesome people ! Who says that you shouldn’t meet your heroes?
Have yourself a Blessed Day ! And Thank You Cindy Edwards for your assistance this morning with the story on Aza Petty. 💘
The Hill – Aza Petty and her family 👪 have been cornerstones in Cindy Edwards Volleyball program for a long, long time now. Not just in the Fall months when the School team is playing but across the Calender as the travel ball World that we live in continues to expand, its hard to not find a Petty at a Volleyball event.
For the past few years the Seniors on the Volleyball team have been playing in groups. Sharing the ” Final” or Last Dance 💃 with your friends and teammates adds to the magic of the experience.
Photos 📷 of the past three Lady 👩 Cavaliers Volleyball 🏐 teams.
Aza Petty is a kind soul and a dedicated teammate in addition to being a student of the game. Her four years of being a part of the Lady Cavalier program has included sharing the court with a large cast of players.
Madison Stockner and Kalee Bunn were former teammates that are currently playing in College and Alyssa Ervin would be if it weren’t for her Basketball 🏀 career. Each of them benefited from sharing the court with Miss Petty!
Coach Edwards took the time to share her thoughts on Aza as well –
” Aza Petty is such an amazing young lady who has worked extremely hard in every aspect of everything she’s done.
She is such a fighter from the start of her like to on the court. She has put everything into her volleyball career, starting with a club at the age of around 9 or 10 to known as a senior. To being a true leader She is the first one in the gym and the last one out. Has worked with her day in the weight room and hardly ever takes a day off. Would take a million of her. I have so much respect for her words can’t describe what an amazing your lady.”
We have eight more 🏡 Volleyball matches left, starting with Alleghany on Tuesday night 🌙. Eight more chances to catch Miss Petty and her very young teammates in action 🎬.
Cavalier Volleyball 🏐 is set to say Goodbye 👋 to an amazing young lady 👩 and now you should consider yourself officially invited to the Going Away Party 🥳!
Each season Carroll County Volleyball 🏐 spends a Saturday down at Patrick Henry – Glade Springs for a day stuffed full of matches.
This year it was set for 8/31 but was pushed back until 9/7 and it would appear that CCHS participated in four matches on the day.
Linda had one of her appointments today so I wasn’t down there and sadly nothing found its way to me but having experienced the last two years I do know its a long day for everyone involved.
Wanting there to be something on our site for the regular readers when they wake ⏰ up later today, I went in search of information and landed on MaxPreps.
Because of the number of matches being played throughout the day, they are reduced from Best 3 out of 5 to Best 2 out of 3. The site shows that are squad went 2-2 on the day.
The season has experienced a handful of tweaks so far in having one match (@ Pulaski County) postponed due to illness, this event being pushed back one week and then the Home opener being moved to the Auxiliary Gym.
Hopefully everything will return to normal this Tuesday night when Alleghany comes to The Hill for the Three Rivers District opener for CCHS. Both the JV and the Varsity teams will be in action 🎬 Tuesday night 🌙.
Anyone that made the trek that would like to share thoughts or pics, please 🙏 do so.
Good seeing you today. Little bit about today. The VA Surge 14U Leath travel softball team hosted a couple of teams from Dobson for a few games at Carroll County High School along with some great fellowship.
The games were set up in a game atmosphere but were used as learning experiences for all teams as the games were stopped as needed by coaches to explain situations and correct mistakes along the way. This team is made up of a core group of seven players from Carroll County.
We also have girls from Grayson, Floyd, Fort Chiswell, George Wythe and Rural Retreat. Our goal for this team is to see the girls learn and understand the game of softball, continue to improve while having fun. I guess we are also building that future core for Coach Rick Nester 😁.
We enjoyed a fun day on the field while having a local face, Hix Miller do the umpiring duties for us while getting a visit from one of our biggest local supporters, Mr. Jerry Carter. We appreciate everyone that came and watched and supported these young ladies. We will keep you posted on the season.
Trenton Miller was right at Home on Saturday morning as the young man stood inside the house that his Community built and continues to build.
Today was the 18th Annual Fund raising Auction at the Island Creek Mennonite Church and School. The room was filled to the brim with people who were doing whatever needed to be done for the betterment of the Day.
Trenton attended the School for the duration of his education and has spent his entire life in and around the property. After our initial conversation we took a tour of the Church and the School.
The two hours was enlightening from beginning to end because it included everything that I feel we need more of, inclusion sitting at the lead. Everyone who desired to participate was given the opportunity to do so and it was all done through the path of Volunteering! See pillar #2 of the 3 that hold our beliefs at OneofUs.Care…
The Mennonite community has been conducting business in this manner from the beginning and getting to witness it all was special, to say the least.
The number of people involved in the process from start to finish was well into the hundreds and everything just seemed to have a flow to it. The fact that there was that level of focus to the event is a testimonial of the level of dedication.
Vickey Ritchie ends every session of Carroll County Special Olympics Basketball with the group getting together, forming a circle and saying ONE TEAM. That sure looked that way this morning and WHAT A TEAM it appeared to be.
A.S.P.N on The Hill 