This Wednesday evening both the Junior Varsity Girls 👧 Basketball 🏀 and the Wrestling team officially kickoff the Winter season for Carroll County High School 🏫 Athletics!
Coach Kayla Nester will take her team down US-58 to face Galax at 6pm while Coach West Long and his wrestlers host Pulaski County High, also starting at 6pm.
4 Basketball 🏀 teams, 2 Swim 🏊♂️ teams and a Wrestling team will keep the Community entertained both on the Hill and on the Highway 🛣 for the next few months and we will do our best to shine a positive light on each of the groups of Student Athletes in appreciation of their efforts.
Quite possibly one of the coolest Mascots around !
Today Notre Dame of Maryland (Gators) are in the Arena to challenge Radford.
Radford University competes in the Big South (9 team League) and the Men’s team is currently 4-3, on its way to 5-3. For most people Radford University sits in the shadow of neighboring Virginia Tech but its the closest Division 1 College to Hillsville/ Carroll County at 42 miles, edging out Wake Forest and formentioned Va Tech.
Looking for some reasonably priced D1 Men and Women’s Basketball 🏀 this Winter then Radford University is a viable option !
Farmville, Virginia is a quaint little town that is the home 🏡 of Longwood University. Having spent many a Moon 🌙 in Farmville over the years, I was more than a little curious about the new Gymnasium they recently opened so we decided to check it out on Saturday afternoon.
Jerome Kersey attended High School 🏫 at Bluestone, located in Clarksville on Buggs Island Lake. The same little town were my Father was born and raised as well as the school that one of my three Sons graduated 🎓 from.
Kersey was the lone player to wear the Longwood jersey in the National Basketball 🏀 Association and he navigated a 17 year carrier but sadly passed away at the age of 52.
It was a flashback for sure when Longwood University was in the Gymnasium at Carroll County High School for a Lady 👩 Cavaliers Volleyball 🏐 match this year during their recruitment of Alyssa Ervin.
The new building just sparkled beyond my imagination! The Gym left enough of an impression on me that it sent me in search of the back story on the Lady that had her name on the outside. The link above tells her story in detail and its the type of story that just makes a person feel proud about another human being never forgetting where they got their start.
P.S. – Longwood won the Basketball 🏀 game yesterday
But its wasn’t about the game being played, it was about Community Pride that the Joan Perry Brock Center displays !
The other day Kris Richardson asked me how I went from a remote Island 🏝 off the Coast of Canada 🇨🇦 to Laurel Fork, Virginia ? It’s all about not forgetting where you came from and for me that’s right off US-58 as both Mom (Cumberland Gap) and Dad (Buggs Island Lake) were born and raised on US-58.
Yesterday afternoon made me feel just a little proud of those roots!
