Mr Kevin DeHaven is tasked with placing the order for our new High Jump area from BSN and my next step 🚶‍♂️is to get the information to Hagen Giles for the golf ⛳, get the books 📚 delivered and get the Ad placed.

  Quick math 🧮….

16 people came in with $100.00

6 gave directly to the School, 10 came from Arms I twisted from folks outside of Carroll County, showing up as a $1,000.00 donation.

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Carroll County Athletic Association contributed $1,000.00 !

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Hill’s Shoes came in at $500.00!

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7 people came in at the Gold Level of $250.00 = $1,750.00

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1 at $200

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$5,050.00 sub total

Working 💪 with our friends at The Carroll News : Priceless

The example above comes curtosey of Grand Canyon University, located out in the Greater Phoenix area.

As I have stated a number of times before, Carroll County High School competes in an incredibly tough Region. Tough for two reasons, one the level of excellence on the playing field and the other being the amount of cash 💸 that is in the bank 🏦.

I don’t think we have the ability to out spend Abingdon, Christiansburg or the schools in the Greater Roanoke area. This means we need to find ways to out think them! How, might be the question that comes to mind ?

A few years back I switched over to using the tag line, ” The Hill “. Borrowing it from Appalachian State University, home to ” The Rock “. University of Florida has the Swamp and both Clemson and Louisiana State have Death Valley.

Virginia Tech has Enter Sandman and closer to home 🏡, Fort Chiswell High School 🏫 has ” Defend the Fort “. Each example above is something that doesn’t have a cost, can be used in marketing and bring a sense of pride to everyone involved.

  University of New Mexico plays their home games in ” The Pit”. Then you can build on the term ” The Hill “, first example being – Not on Our Hill, a play on the phrase, Not in our House.

Another thing that is beautiful about a Tag Line is that it can be shared equally by everyone, which means it works for Track and Field in the same manner it would for the Basketball 🏀 team.

Charging The Hill, Protecting The Hill are other ideas 💡 that might work as well. Defending The Hill would be similar to our neighbors on US-52 North.

We need to search for ways to unite the School 🏫, in hopes of success across the board.

In the 2024-2025 School year we had the following Cavaliers place in their State Tournaments

1. Corrie Delp placed 4th in the Long Jump
2. Anthony Barnes and his Boys Basketball team finished up in a tie for 5th.
3. Trace Reavis placed 10th in the State Golf ⛳ tournament.
4. Brenden Fariss qualified for State in the High Jump.
5. We had an a pool full of 🏊‍♂️ swimmers advance to State and Wyatt Ogle placed in one of his events.
6. Samuel Collins gave West Long his first State qualifying Wrestler and a quartet of young Ladies advanced in a yet to be sanctioned Girls Wrestling.
7. Casey Burcham led the Baseball ⚾️ team to the first 20 win season in the history of the program.
8. Adam Nester led the Junior Varsity Baseball team to a 6th straight Three Rivers District crown 👑, while dropping just one game.
9. We had an Academics team advance to a National competition down in Hotlanta.
10. Let’s round out the rather impressive Top 10 List by stating that we even have a Cavalier on his way to Harvard University. Way to go, Ethan Edwards !

Carroll County High School 🏫 had a large number of SUCCESS stories last year on The Hill ! Celebrate them and use them as motivation for 2025-2026, while looking for a way to unite the efforts…