Alyssa Ervin capped off a brilliant High School career at Carroll County High School last year after leading the Lady 👩 Cavaliers back to the State Tournament in quest of a Three -Peat. The team fell in the State Quarterfinals at Liberty Christian Academy ✝️ but she left her mark on CCHS in a manner that might not ever be duplicated.

After shattering the Cavaliers scoring record, held by Erin Gibson for decades, Ervin headed down to Elon University to play Basketball 🏀 for the Phoenix.

The stay down in North Carolina did not goes as planned for the Ervin family and now its Furman University down in South Carolina where the former Cavalier will take to the basketball court.

When the transfer was announced a while back it was a big enough deal that Allen Worrell wrote about the move in The Carroll News so there was no need for me to do the same.

  Sadly, we live in a World 🌎 where people are quick / eager to judge other peoples situations. Once you make a decision about entering the transfer portal, its not as if you just pack up and head out of town the next day.

As I am trying hard to make sure that the next two weeks will be as strong 💪 as it can possibly be, I can absolutely relate to the fact that in the middle of what had to be a challenging year for Ervin, she finished up her time at Elon University on the Dean’s List !

The next chapter is in front of this young Lady 👩 now and while we don’t know how it will play out down there in the Greenville area, I am proud to say that I will be pulling for her !

Ed Robtison added some insight in that Kyraha Parnell of Galax will be both her new teammate and roommate at Furman.  Despite coming from the same area, the duo will be starting their time together without a prior history.

In a game that I have always called ” Rest Area Leap Frog 🐸”, I will add thoughts about today at each available Rest Area along the route.

Stop ✋#1 – Radford area(MM 108)…. Starting out with the Who, What, Where, Why , When line of questions….

Who : Britt Berrier just graduated 🎓 from Carroll County High School and is preparing to start college as a Student Athlete with the sport being Baseball. While at CCHS he played under the guidance of Kevin DeHaven and in his final season, Casey Burcham.

Where : Charlottesville, Virginia or as I call it, Hoosville. Our youngest of five graduated 🎓 from UVA so its near and dear to us.

When : Today, beginning at 3pm, with the first pitch set for 6pm. Weather permitting has to be added.

What : Virginia Baseball Coaches Association All-Star 🌟 game in which the top players from each of the six classes are invited to showcase their skills.

Why : in regards to this one, my quest is to gather up enough information throughout the day to create a story for Allen Worrell to run in The Carroll News. The story is about a young man 👨, who I don’t personally know, that wore our colors across four years and did so well enough that he was invited to UVA.

Ideally, we will get a quote from both of his head Coaches and maybe even Father and Son. It’s a Big Day for a Cavalier and the goal is to properly frame it up for him!

Funny thing happened on the way to the second Rest Area….Coach Burcham received an email 📧 from the VBCA saying that the game has been postponed due to the Weather forecast and a decision will be made later in regards to rescheduling.

Coach / Athletic Director Kevin DeHaven took the time to offer his thoughts on this impressive young Man.

” Britt is a very knowledge young man of the game of baseball. He notices players swings and knows what pitches will work for our pitchers. But more importantly he is a GREAT young man. He goes out of his way to make teammates, even the young ones feel as they are part of the team. I will miss him!”

The Link to the story is below :

https://www.thecarrollnews.com/townnews/sport/cchs-needs-help-funding-track-program-facilities/article_01e6953c-e5a3-4dcd-9bcb-d436505ec61e.html

As we search for our forty folks / business to join us, I am happy to report that we have had eight people step up on Day 1!

This will be a quick process that we are hoping to wrap up by the end of the month. Once again, thank you to Hagen Giles and Olde Mill Golf Resort for teaming up with us on this one !

The triangle 🔺️ that OneofUs.Care is founded on consists of three things, Kindness, Volunteering and Bartering, with the goal of creating things that don’t already exist. Bartering is the one we will focus on today.

The glaring need in regards to High School Athletics is our Track. Patrick County High School is in the process of upgrading their facility which will leave our School 🏫 as the only one in the area with an asphalt surface. The reality is that the bag of cash 💸 needed is beyond anything that I can help create, it has to come from a higher source.

  Things brings us to the next biggest thing that Head Coach Shawn Montgomery and Assistant Coach Jon Delp need to help keep our Track and Field program pointed in the right direction, a new High Jump area. The cost of this is $15,000.00 and with the  assistance of Tammy Quesenberry, Chuck Thompson, Samantha Reed, Hagen Giles out at Olde Mill Golf Resort ⛳, Kevin DeHaven and The Carroll News we will raise the $15,000.00 through Bartering.

  I am so sure that this can work for both the High Jump area and other similar costs for other ventures that we will be guaranteeing half of the amount – $7,500.00. Tammy Quesenberry will focus on the other half, with the Carroll County High School Athletic Association helping her side.

  We are looking for roughly 40 people from here in our Community who would be interested in joining us in this project and here’s a list of what they can choose from in return :

Write a check for $100.00 ( to Carroll County High School) and in return you will receive both a Good Feeling and a round of Golf and Cart at Olde Mill Golf Resort.

Write ✍ a check for $150.00 and you will receive those two things ➕ a copy of the Basketball 🏀 Book created after Carroll County won 🏆 back 2 back State Titles.

Write a check ✔ for $250.00 and you will receive those three things ➕ getting a space the size of a business card in the full page ad that will run 🏃‍♂️ in The Carroll News. The ad will be acknowledging OneofUs.Care, Olde Mill Golf Resort, the Carroll County Athletic Association and all that choose to play a role in helping the Team move this forward.

Brenden Fariss just finished up at the State Track and Field meet after qualifying in the High Jump for Carroll County High School. I was able to spend time with him in Lynchburg and it was then that I realized that he was having to travel down to Mount Airy to practice.

  Bartering is an Answer that I have used across a lifetime and I think its a viable solution here and not just for the High Jump !

If you are interested in being one of the 40, you will also be invited out for a Celebration when everything is in place!

If you are interested in joining please reach out and I encourage people to share the story in hopes of getting the word out !