” Tough day of wrestling yesterday, the athletes worked hard and unfortunately fell just short of their State Tournament goal. The competitions may be over but there is still work to be done! “Always Forward, Never Outworked!”
Per the norm when we write ✍ about a team end we ask for everyone that put forth the effort so we can applaud 👏 them for representing our School 🏫 and our Community.
Thank You for your time, energy and effort 🙏 all season.
Coach Long has a vision for his program and he knows it will be an uphill climb. If you see Coach out and about Please offer him encouragement 🙏 and if you see his Student Athletes on The Hill feel free to show appreciation for their efforts!
Mr. Stephen Puckett is a Man of many talents, one of them is being the Pastor at Gospel Chapel out here in Laurel Fork. Another hat 👒 that he wears is being in charge of the Maintenance Department 🏬 of the Carroll County School system.
For the past week Steve has quietly run point on our project at Cavalier Park. While I was blessed to spend roughly 10-12 hours with five of his team members last week, I only saw 👀 Steve for a brief moment.
Thinking that he looked familiar to me but not sure why? Had to smile when I finally connected the dots and realized he was the same Man 👨 that I had spent the last two Easter mornings with.
Mr. Puckett will forever be linked to one of our stories and for that I am grateful 🙏!
Thank You Sir for your assistance, your sermon today and for everything that you stand for !
On the Boys 👦 Basketball side of things Floyd County and Alleghany went into yesterday tied for second place at 8-3. The two teams split their games and both had one game remaining versus Radford.
The Cougars took their turn with the Bobcats yesterday at 5pm in Radford and they held on for what had to be exciting 61-59 victory. AHS now sits 1/2 game ahead of Floyd County in the race for second place but the Buffaloes get their shot at the Bobcats Wednesday night. A Floyd County victory on Wednesday would create a tie 👔 and with the head 2 head meetings being a draw, we would go to a tiebreaker system to determine the Cavaliers opponent for Thursday night 🌙.
Alleghany High won’t know if they are playing here on Thursday until the end of a game on Wednesday night. Floyd County controls their fate a bit but they would be playing on consecutive nights ahead of their Region run.
The one advantage that I have that others don’t is I can self-report to explain something. When you have your own space and there aren’t sponsors or corporate types to answer to its easier.
Three weeks ago my Wife and Best Friend 💓 boarded a flight ✈️ out to Missouri, where her 85 year old Mother 👩 lives. 21 Days alone creates all sorts of options to a Man, more golfing, more fishing 🎣 or maybe more time hanging out with their buddies.
I took another path and went head first into the things I believe 🙏 in. With no one here to say ” Step away from the Cellphone or put down the Car keys” I have as they say, left everything I had on the playing field.
Lin flies back into Charlotte tomorrow night at 6:30. I think something else is happening at that exact same time……
This means I will slow 🐌 back down to simply an insane pace now.
There is a rather thin line between being Committed and needing to be Committed. I try my best to stay on the correct side of said line but today I was on the wrong side of it by a wide margin.
Friday included the following – 11am to 4pm with Coach Nester and the Maintenance team with the concrete pour.
Grab a quick bite to eat and then head into the Gym for the Basketball 🏀 double header. Four hours later, after we swept Christiansburg High School 🏫 I headed back to Laurel Fork.
Once I got my Night 🌙 Crew everything they needed I started to write ✍ stories. A great deal took place in the Gymnasium Friday night so there was more to share. The Junior Varsity was playing their final game of the season and that needed more attention ➕ Davis Reitzel reaching 1,000 points & the crazy fourth quarter.
I finished my final Post 📫 at 6:00am, roughly 24 hours after my day started and at 6:02 I was fast asleep. No worries, as I had a blank day on the Calender in regards to Saturday (or so I thought).
Because my crew works the overnight shift I cannot mute my phone from 11pm to 7am, and we go 365 days a year.
At 6:55 am my phone 📱 made a noise and 53 minutes after falling asleep I realized that the Regional Wrestling Tournament was taking place today. Didn’t know where or when or what my name was at the time but for the next 60 minutes I tried to actually get out of bed 🛌.
Back up to last Spring when our 11 Sports teams played their final game I was there for 10 of them, to highlight it for them. So I headed out to the Car 🚗 and plugged Abingdon High School 🏫 into the GPS. I had barely started the drive up and over when Marion Harris sent me the announcement about the Chorus event.
Shannon Dalton gave me hope in the process 🙏. She is the Real Deal and is so kind in her ways, because she is like 6.4 times smarter than me and often has to dumb down for me to keep up. I was ready to concede that I couldn’t find enough people who looked at Life and our Youth the way we do. Three ➕ years had netted very little progress on the non-sports side of things. So much time was spent trying to get people to become aware of the site that it took away from actually making process.
Survived the Drive down and spent three ➕ hours in the Gym at AHS, including some quality time with Mr. Ben Tickle. Did my very best to capture at least one photo 📷 of each of our Wrestlers before heading further down I-81 to the Virginia Center of Higher Education.
I have had the pleasure of taking in our Chorus on a few occasions and always took the time to ✍ about the evening. The problem was that nobody involved with the Chorus outside of the Harris family 👪 had any idea that the site existed.
Tonight that is no longer the case as we have created three separate stories about their efforts and listed everyone that participated.
Mrs Lineberry works as hard for and with her Students as anyone out there. I don’t need anyone out there to go back and read the old stuff but I now hope she understands that she is welcome to our platform 24/7.
After the performance ended I realized I was a couple of hours from home 🏡 and the drive back would have to include multiple breaks.
With some more assistance from Marion we created something that I feel every member of the group will appreciate.
Now, having done a Good 2 Days work I think I will call it a Night !
Encouraging the World 🌎 One person at a time requires a certain level of Commitment….
Tomorrow we wake ⏰ up (hopefully) and give it our Best Shot !
This is the follow-up 📫 on the District 7 Chorus event which took place over the past two days down in Abingdon. I encourage folks to check out the live version of the story from earlier today.
First item of business is to list each and every Cavalier that participated in this Top Shelf event.
So here are the names of the Students who attended all district chorus. Christina Alderman, Elizabeth Barr, Grace Bouldin, Katie Boyd, Celine Campbell-Zendejas, Saffire Carter, Nathaniell Dalton, Wyatt Dalton, Brooke Fichtel, Chloe Galyean, Callie Harris, Quint Leonard, Cali Lineberry, Bethany Melton, Ian Montgomery, Annaleise Moore, Ellie Parker, Maddie Spencer, and Lexi Slayton.
Always important to list everyone !
From Mrs Lineberry :
Oh gosh. I had 22 who originally made All District choir but due to circumstances 3 could not go. I took 19 students who are immensely talented and extremely hardworking and got to watch them be part of an incredible experience. They began rehearsing Friday at 10 in the morning until 8 that evening and then came back Saturday morning and rehearsed until their performance Saturday afternoon. It is physically and mentally demanding to sing and get ready for a performance of such a magnitude and these students were amazing. I cannot begin to describe how proud I am of each one of them. They represented themselves and Carroll County High School well. It is such an honor to work with these students day in and day out and to watch them grow as musicians and as people.
Thank You Ma’am for all that you do for our youth !
Next – The list of the performers that will now move on to Richmond as State Delegates :
Here are the All Virginia Delegates Cali Lineberry—Alto 2Quint Leonard—Bass 2Ian Montgomery—Bass 1Annaleise Moore—Alto 1 Alternate. They will go to Richmond in April to perform with students at from across the state.
Life is not all about throwing a pass, hitting an open jumper or winning a race. While each of those things are cool, our Community is also full of actors, singers and dancers. The past 48 hours this group represented our School and Community with a great deal of grace and class. In School on Monday if you share a class with any of them please 🙏 let them know you are proud of them !
Marion Harris gets a great deal of credit for helping me gather all of the information and that’s why he has a corner office 🏢 in our imaginary World 🌎 Headquarters.
For those of you heading to Richmond later, Best Wishes. For the balance of the group, Well Done !
