It has certainly been an exciting year for Carroll County High School Athletics and in the next 8 to 10 hours it will come to a conclusion here in Lynchburg at the Class 3 State Track 👣 and Field meet.

Corrie Delp captured a Regional 🏆🏆🏆 Championship to bookend the feat with fellow Junior, Trace Reavis in Golf ⛳. Reavis capped his year off with a Top 10 finish in the State Tournament at Heritage Oaks in Harrisonburg.

Seth Greer and Company returned the Gridiron 🏈 Cavaliers to the post season in his inaugural year, something that gave The Hill a level of excitement it had been lacking. Cindy Edwards overachieved with as young of a Volleyball 🏐 roster and Shawn Montgomery coached up the Cross Country team that included a Harvard bound runner 🏃‍♂️.

  Wrestling Coach West Long sent Samuel Collins to the State meet and four young ladies did the same in a sport that hopes to be officially being sanctioned next year. Howard Mayo returned to lead our Lady Cavaliers Basketball 🏀 program and Anthony Barnes & Kris Richardson coached the Boys 👦 to a rare State Tournament appearance after capturing the District title. Bryce Smoot passed Tee Jackson as the All-Time scoring leader on the Boys side. Swimming 🏊‍♂️ once again sent a pool full of Cavaliers to Richmond for the State meet and Wyatt Ogle placed in one of his events.

The calendar 📅 flipped to Spring and 12 Cavalier teams took to the Diamond 💎, tennis courts, Soccer ⚽️ Pitches and Tracks 👣. We welcomed back Girls Junior Varsity Soccer and a pair of Rookie Coaches combined to lead our Baseball teams to a combined 38-3 mark and two District titles.

Casey Burcham and Adam Nester, along with Adrienne Harris, Brittany Kinney and Christy Shupe each led a Spring program for the first time. We had Stadium seats 💺 at Cavalier Park, upgraded seating at Bill Worrell Field and The Castle 🏰 on The Hill opened its doors 🚪, providing indoor hitting for decades to come.

Yesterday afternoon, Delp and Brenden Fariss represented Carroll County High School in the State Track 👣 and Field meet in Lynchburg.

We lost a local Hero when Jeff Tobler passed away unexpectedly in December.

So many things transpired over the School year and now it comes down to one more opportunity for a Student Athlete to participate in a Virginia High School League contest.

  It’s hard to separate the Delp Family 👪 from CCHS Track and Field. Jon and Vanetta Delp have five daughters with Corrie being the one currently in the spotlight now

Emily participated in the same events and also qualified for the State Meet back in 2022. It truly is the family 👪 business with Dad as one of the coaches.

Today is Corrie Delp Day here in Lynchburg and we are hoping 🙏 for our final Cavalier to shine !

Thankfully for Carroll County Junior Corrie Delp, her main event should get in ahead of the potential weather. Either way, it promises to be less suffocating than the heat and humidity combo from Friday afternoon.

The early guess for the first of the three attempts for Delp is 10am(ish). Class 3 will follow Class 4.

Tomorrow morning will close the curtain on the 2024-2025 Carroll County High School year. Its only fitting that our lone Regional Champion gets the honor 🎖 of closing the show !

Lynchburg – Brenden Fariss capped off a highly competitive second season on Varsity Track 👣 and Field Saturday afternoon at Liberty University by participating in the Class 3 High Jump.

Fariss started his Track 👣 and Field career as an 8th grader on the Middle School team coached by Shawn Montgomery and Jon Delp. Year three in the business ended with the Sophomore winning the Three Rivers District crown 👑 and qualifying for State on the same day.

” Brenden is a well rounded athlete,” said Jon Delp. ” He would be a perfect candidate for a decathlon if we held those in high school. One day he just decided to try the Long Jump and he looked like a natural.”

Fariss competed but did not qualify for the finals in his event but was soaking up the atmosphere at the event. With Class 3 and 4 competing at the same time, the sheer number of Athletes is breathtaking.

” I wasn’t able to jump as well as I would have liked today,” said Fariss. ” But I am happy to have been able to reach this level.”

Corrie Delp ran in the 100 meter dash after having qualified  in the final spot at the Regional meet. The Long Jump is her bread 🍞 and butter 🧈 event, but getting to double dip was a little bonus for the Junior. Delp missed out on making it to the finals set for Saturday, the bright side of that being in won’t pull focus from the Long Jump trials.

Delp is three of three in regards to making it to State in the Long Jump but has yet to advance to the finals. That could very well change tomorrow as she is now jumping a full foot longer than last year.

Saturday morning at 9:30 will be the final time a Carroll County High School Student Athlete competes in a VHSL sanctioned event in the 2024 – 2025 season.

This post 📫 will be a day long one and then it will be reduced to a story that will fit into the Carroll News later.

It’s quite an accomplishment for a Student Athlete to reach the highest stage and the goal over the next two days will be to capture as much of the event through the eyes 👀 of both Fariss and Delp as well as Shawn Montgomery and Assistant Coach Jon Delp.

Fariss qualified in the High Jump the day of the District meet at Floyd County High School. The day was a double scoop of joy as the Cavalier also won 🏆the District Championship that day as well. His event will be right out of the gate today and in a matter of minutes, it will be over.

Here on our site, today will be a Track 👣 and Field ONLY type of day. Anything else that comes up will take a back seat 💺 until tonight.

Corrie Delp is back competing in two events this season as the Regional Champion in the Long Jump snuck in the final spot in the 100 Meters at the last possible point, last week in Christiansburg.

For those of you not as familiar with Track and Field, today is both the Class 3 and Class 4 State Meet. Liberty University will be filled with some of the fastest and strongest 💪 Student Athletes from across the Commonwealth. In the Field events, each athlete will receive three attempts in their sport in hopes of qualifying for the Finals.

On the track 👣 side, its a one and done with the same goal of qualifying for the finals. Schools 🏫 earn points for each athlete that places in the Top Nine after the finals.

Two years ago, then Senior, Elijah Smith reached the finals in his event and finished 10th in the State. One spot out of earning points for Carroll County High School.

Let’s look at some goals ahead of this afternoon. First, that both of our Student Athletes enjoy their moments in the Sun 🌞 (Temps in the High 80’s) and then that they perform to the best of their abilities.

For the Coaches, its my personal goal that Carroll County scores points between now and the end of Saturday afternoon.

Delp is primed to compete at the highest level and is jumping at her career best. Her latest mark of 17-7.5, 1/4 short of the School record.

More to follow !!! Much, Much more.

The tempature is flirting with 90° as the gates opened at 11am. One of the pics above shows this years design on the T-shirt 👕 and then our two Athletes listed on the back.

Coaches meeting starts at 11:30 am

11:35 – end of Coaches meeting…

Side Note 📝 – its HOT 🔥 here..

26 Class 3 Boys, starting with 5’11. Each athlete gets three attempts. Fariss faulted on attempt #1.

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Farris faulted in his second attempt but will have one more shot at clearing 5’11.

Fariss had his best form of the day in his third and final attempt but unfortunately he clipped the bar on the way down with his ankle. Our Sophomore has completed his stay at Liberty University but love the fact that he will be staying with the traveling team until the end of the day tomorrow.

Next up will be Corrie Delp in the 100 Meter trials. Roughly 2pm – ish.

2:55 update – Corrie Delp should be running 🏃‍♂️ here in the next 15 minutes !

3:05 – Hurdles still going on, still waiting..

3:15 – We have a Corrie sighting as her group is in the hole 🕳 (3rd group up)

3:32 – hurdles being removed now

It reached 90° today and still sits at 86° at 5:15 pm. Our Cavaliers are headed back to their Hotel 🏨 now and tomorrow morning 🌄 it will be Miss Delp in her feature event, the Long Jump.

One day soon I will reflect on why someone is pulling into a Lynchburg Hotel 🏨 parking lot at 11:30 pm…..

Just not yet…