Brayden and Bryce Smoot have taken their Basketball skills and desire for further education over to SWCC.
Classes start on Monday and we look forward to watching our favorite Twin Basketball players enjoy their College experience !
Two people are automatically a potential HERO to me. First, anyone who wears a Badge and protects others.
Second, anyone that offers their time and energy to teach our Youth.
When someone manages to combine those two things, they go from Hero to Super Hero !!!!
Not sure if Bolen has a ” S ” on his Chest in real life but in the World I live in, he certainly does.
One way to show 💘 to Bolen is come to the Gym this winter as watch his Son-in-law, West Long coach up our Wrestlers.
The two display cases holding the Proof of Trek.
Decades ago when I first thought about how much commitment it would take to make it to the end, it felt like most people who completed this particular Loop were either filthy rich or had sponsors.
Naturally, I wanted to see 👀 how little money 💰 it would take to hit all 30. The book 📖 would be titled, 30 Baseball Parks for under $10,000.00. In order to pull this off, it would require a great deal of creativity.
I was about 3/4 done when I realized that that I’m not that much of a baseball fan after all. Getting to the finish line required me leaning on my favorite piece of Life advice – Finish What You Start.
There won’t be a play by play of the entire journey but it will be fun to recap some of the brighter moments that took place along the way.
Cody Reece is back on The Hill, just months after Graduation 🎓 as this former Cavalier is dialed in on what he wants to do with his future. Reece will be splitting time between the Basketball staff of Anthony Barnes as a Coach and the Baseball diamond 💎 at New River Community College as a Player.
Reece developed his skills over his four years on The Hill under the guidance of Coaches like Kevin DeHaven, Casey Burcham, Jason Stockner, Kris Richardson and Anthony Barnes. Its quite possible that the leaders listed here rubbed off on Reece because he wants to join the ranks once he has completed College !
Not all 50 of the Baseball stories are just about Baseball and that is certainly the case with the young Man whose friends call Rooster 🐓.
The moment that lands Reece on the 50 list took place last Spring up in Penn Laird, Virginia. Carroll County High School Boys Basketball team was playing in the State Quarterfinals against the Spotswood High School Trailblazers.
Spotswood would go on to capture the State Championship later that month and they had a great scouting report on how to slow 🐌 down Bryce Smoot and Isaiah Easter but they might have been guilty of overlooking the Rooster.
The moment was classic in that both Alan Knight and Allen Worrell were sitting on the floor next to me, a few feet from Ground Zero. Reece set up on the baseline and managed to drain not one, not two but a trio of 3-pointers. Cody Reece 9, Spotswood 6 was the score at that point !!!
You don’t win State Championships without making adjustments and the Trailblazers switched to having the State Player of the Year defend Reece. In the book 📖 we will leave out the part in regards to how the fourth attempt landed in the neighboring town of Elkton after it was blocked 🚫.
Reece has a cannon for an arm when playing Third Base and for a moment, he was single handily leading the best Basketball team in the State!
A.S.P.N on The Hill 