First, we have the serious photo, sadly we were missing Laiken Burnett and Alyssa Lawson.
In a blink of an eye 👁, the FUN look. I promise that no Lady Cavaliers were injured in this moment and I’m impressed with the cat like moves of Assistant Coach Kayla Nester !
We will do everything we can to help make this season as fun as possible for this neat group of young Ladies !
Meanwhile, down the hall, poor Nikki Heflin is trying to dust off the cobwebs on her new Assistant Coach.
Nothing is more fun then showing Love 💘 towards Mrs. Shelia Harris. Shelia returns to coaching for the first time in eight years and will be helping out Coach Heflin this season.
Here’s the Fun Look from the Junior Varsity squad.
Looking forward to seeing how the season unfolds for this batch of Lady Cavaliers !!
The link above will show the replay and I will set the table for the story about what took place one special day on the Campus of James Madison University.
Living by the words Duke, UVA and where I stay in regards to who I pull for, I have followed four Baseball ⚾️ teams in my 62 years. Being born on a Navy base south of Oakland, California I learned the game of Baseball from Charlie Finley and his swinging A’s.
There will be more about Joe Rudi, Vida Blue, Catfish Hunter, Reggie Jackson and the rest of the cast of characters that ruled the early 1970’s later.
My Father, Charles T Carter spent right at 30 years in the Navy and we moved ALOT. One place we stayed was down in Albany, Georgia so it became the A’s and the Atlanta Braves. Back then the Braves crushed Home Run after Home Run but other than spitballing Phil Neikro, had zero pitching. They were bad for a long stretch but loyalty rules.
My Father had a deep relationship with God and this allowed him to deal with four strange kiddos and one fairly normal one without losing his temper.
Fast Forward to 1992 and when I tell this story, I lead with the question – who scored the most famous run in the history of the Atlanta Braves ? If I get an answer other than Sid Bream, there’s no point in telling the story because you’re not talking to a Braves fan.
The third team is whatever team that Greg Maddux ( fourth and final one being the Seattle Mariners) so I was doubly invested in Game 7 of the National League Championship. Atlanta was trying to rally past Barry Bonds and the Pirates when THE PLAY happened.
When Bream scored the run I lost my mind and sadly for me I was watching the game at my parents house. Connect the dots to get the response from my Father after being awaken by my outburst.
Now we will jump forward another decade and I’m blogging about a college game between Liberty University and JMU. I was there with Mr John Leonard, someone who I respect to the moon and back. Leonard is a separate story that will be included as well as he takes knowledge of Americas Pastime to a entire different planet.
We are a few innings into the game when I look up in the stands and notice a familiar face. All of the sudden I have a ridiculous grin on my face, to the point John asked me what I saw ?
There was a man that was watching 👀 the game with great attention so I waited to the half inning before turning my attention towards him. With a great deal of gusto, I pointed to him and shouted, ” My Father only yelled at me one time in my life and it was your fault.”
Without hesitation, he shouted back, I’ve got one question for you Buddy, were you screaming for me or against me?”
I quickly replied back, ” For you for sure!”.
Realizing what just happened, John suggested that I go get his autograph but I replied that I got to tell my Sid Bream story to Sid Bream so that was better than any autograph.
Bream was there watching his Son play for the Flames and by doing so, he made my day, week, month !
Editing Note 📝 – if this was a book about Basketball 🏀, I would add my telling Jay Bilas story to Jay Bilas.
Kevin DeHaven is entering Year 2 of filling the shoes 👞 of long time Athletic Director, Darrin Mathews. The great news is he survived Year 1 and returned for Year 2!
Having worked with AD’s now for decades at different levels, this is only the second time that I have worked with one while he or she has children competing in Sports at the same time. It has to be a HUGE benefit to be able to view a topic as both the AD and as a Parent.
I have a great appreciation for both the position and the Man sitting in the chair 💺. If there’s anything I can do to assist Mr DeHaven or Principal Chuck Thompson, all they have to do is ask !
Congratulations 👏 on a Great year 1 and keep up the great work. P.S. – Mrs DeHaven is a perfect Mrs AD as I admire your mindset in supporting her husband.
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Next up – Dr Samantha Reed ( still listed in my cellphone as Kevin’s friend) and her dedicated team that make up the Carroll County High School Athletic Association.
This group is magnificent in what they do and how they do it. The energy that Dr Reed operates with is contagious, at least to me. When you are asking people to lead others, they need to lead with passion and determination and I see this in Spades ♠️ with Dr. Reed.
Similar to the Principal, Athletic Director and Tammy Quesenberry (and myself), Reed is required to care about ALL things Cavaliers and she too benefits from being both a leader and a Parent.
We are currently negotiating with Dr Reed to open up our Alumni Day at Cavalier Park by performing the song 🎵, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. We would escort her in with either a Limo or at least Chris Mabry’s Shop ( Police term). Kevin Burress and I would be her backup dancers. The negotiating is down to what color M and M’s she wants in her dressing room. Neat, Neat Lady who happens to possess a beautiful voice !
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Seth Greer is the MAN 👨and I hope he’s on The Hill for a long. long time. There are three ways that I can help a team and Mr Greer has two of them locked 🔒 down. Announcing, Coverage and Promotions are what I do. Seth has Allen Worrell to cover his efforts and Josh to call his games so that leaves me with Promotions and if he ever needs or wants anything, I will jump at the opportunity.
High School Football is vital to any community and is bigger than anything else around. The way that Greer operates makes me proud to call him Coach!
The song 🎵 is ageless and I can hear my Man, Kevin Burress playing it to open the festivities next month ! The only thing that would top it is we could someone Sing it Live !!
We are working 💪 on some pretty Cool stuff within our Group with the focus for the day being two fold – Celebration of our Past and a Kickoff for the 2025-2026 season !
We have a group of Seniors that are preparing for their farewell season of wearing our Colors and we will do everything possible to make sure that this group gets to ride off into the Sunset 🌇 in style!
Come out and join us for a great time that will include a multitude of things that will all be designed to make people smile !
A.S.P.N on The Hill 