Bluefield Soccer ⚽️ finished in a 1-1 👔 today and check out who scored the Rams 🐏 👀 Goal – our KK Newman !!!
Eastern Mennonite University (Madison Stockner) celebrated Alumni Day up in Harrisonburg but fell short in their match.
Kalee Bunn and Ferrum VB was also up in Bluefield but on the West Virginia side playing Bluefield State. The Panthers had their 3 match winning streak snapped as they dropped three close sets to the Home Team.
Ashlyn Newman and Union University is playing a Friday and Sunday schedule down in Alabama. The team opened their weekend with a Victory!
I’ve had October 13th circled on my Calendar 📅 for quite some time. I’m in my 3rd season of announcing Field Hockey 🏑 down at Appalachian State University and Sunday will be the first time in my 46 years that I will announce a NCAA contest that includes the #1 Ranked Team in the Nation.
The University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill is coming to The Rock and the Tar Heels are the dominant team in the World 🌎 of Field Hockey 🏑.
I won’t hide from the level of excellence I have about this, pre- Hurricane. Boone, North Carolina was one of the hardest hit cities / communities during Helene. The University has been in shutdown since the storm and will resume Classes on Wednesday.
The Football team had to cancel their Home game vs Liberty University the weekend of the storm and have played on the road the past two weekends. In fact they are playing as I type.
On the Field Hockey side we found home away from home Campuses in UNC – Charlotte and Davidson College before playing on the road at Liberty University and Miami of Ohio.
Tomorrow morning 🌄 we will gather around at 10am ahead of the Noon start. It has gone from a game against #1 team in the Nation to the rebirth of the public side of Appalachian State University. The community, the City and the University have been through so much in the past weeks. Obviously Boone is not alone as we have witnessed a long list of places that are still trying hard to return to the point of normalcy.
If there has been any form of a bright spot here, its been the way folks have rallied around each other in a time of need.
Tomorrow morning 🌄 was already going to be special because it’s the Tar Heels 👠 but now its the First Step 🚶♂️ in showing that while Boone was hit hard, it will live on to continue Fighting the Good Fight !
Carroll County High School 🏫 Wrestling Coach West Long and I get together every so often and compare notes 📝 about ways we can move his program in the direction he is ever so passionate about.
One of those conversations took place on Friday as I was driving back from the Northern Virginia area. West was asking how his group could help out Vickey Ritchie and her Special Olympics group ?
The Boo Ridge 5K, Fun Run and Little Gobbler event are the Biggest Day of the year for Vickey and we do everything we can to assist her with it. The greatest challenge of the event is going out afterwards and collecting each and every prop that was placed along the 3.2 mile trek.
At roughly 11:20 am all of the festivities were concluded and it was time to ” straighten up “.
This photo 📷 was taken just past 1pm and you can see everyone except the two helpers that went deepest into the woods. At this point Vickey was all but done ✔ with the HUMONGOUS effort ( if you can say still having to truck 🚚 home roughly 40 containers close).
We swapped out being in the Photo 📷 and everyone in the group knew we were light years ahead of where we would be without the help of Coach Long and his team of hard workers !!!
I can only speak as to how beat up Lin and I are after our six hours of dedicated assistance. Vickey Ritchie has been out there every night 🌙 all week prepping for two hours of pure joy.
Because of the Hometown Heroes move of Coach Long and Company, everyone involved made it home 🏡 to their respective bottles of Aspirin….
Coach, what might have been just six people sure felt like a Hundred !! Reminds me of a story about Fish 🐟 and loafs of Bread 🍞.
When folks notice the OneofUs.Care logo hanging around his Wrestling team this Winter, remember the time that Coach came in and did something for someone who he has no natural connection too.
The very definition of OneofUs.Care!
Officer Chris Mabry absolutely crushed the National Anthem prior to the start of the Race 🏁 👏
A.S.P.N on The Hill 