Women’s volleyball prepares to meet its moment as its popularity grows

Women’s volleyball prepares to meet its moment as its popularity grows https://www.thescore.com/olym/news/2723078

Showing a Trifecta of Support down in Boone…1st Breast Cancer 🎀 Awareness…2nd Appy State….Carroll County High Head Coach Cindy Edwards

Sitting in the Holmes Center after hosting a thrilling Field Hockey 🏑 game that we won in shoot outs…

Priceless moment as one of the App State player’s Mother 👩 and Cancer ♋ Survivor delivers the honorary First Serve !!!

As we did prior to our Field Hockey game a Moment of Silence was held to honor the Late Chancellor of ASU, Mr. Kenneth E. Peacock.

Even the Mascot is in full Pink Mode !

The tie to Breast Cancer Awareness is obvious and the Appalachian State University connection is also self evident but how about to our Coach back home 🏡, Cindy Edwards ?

Trust me when I say that not every community has a Coach that has dedicated his or her entire adult life to teaching the game of Volleyball to a Community and at times neighboring Communities. Now, let me contradict my own thought process by adding that I have been blessed to know two folks that fit that very description – Alan Knight of Page County and Cindy Edwards of Carroll County.

Pardon the Interpretation……. but time with the Mascot is Premo Time !!!

Just last week Alan & Cindy ended up in the same College Gymnasium up in Harrisonburg. Alan was in the building to be a line judge for the Match (something he does to give back to the game when he’s not doing Color commentary for ESPN+) while Cindy had a special purpose that evening as well.

See, one of Cindy’s former players currently plays for EMU, Ms Madison Stockner. Coach made the drive 🚗 up I-81 to show support for one of her former players. Cavalier Alums play Volleyball 🏐 other places as well – Ferrum, Emory & Henry here in Virginia and as far off as the Greater Chicago area.

Appy wins set #1, 25-17

Cindy coaches them when they’re too young to understand the game and stands by them well after they take the CCHS jersey off for the final time. Is it just me or does it sound a little like Moonlight Graham of Field of Dreams???

Twenty more minutes of watching 👀 College Volleyball 🏐 and then start the 2 hour drive 🚗 home 🏡 while trying hard to follow Cavalier Football 🏈🏈🏈.

Side note 📝 – App leads Set #2, 6-4

It’s Game Day down in Boone for my App State Field Hockey 🏑 Mountaineers and Carroll County Varsity Football 🏈 will also travel 2+ hours to face a team formally named the Mountaineers. But let’s start with Marion’s take on last night’s Volleyball 🏐 @ James River. A Trio of Road Trips

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Big Thank You to Kris Richardson for catching 🙏 it so quickly !

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Now – Marion’s take from the Gym in Buchanan last night 🌙.

We lost a very close match last night to James river!!!! I have always told my kids and my players you can win with class and you can lose with class. Well last night I have to say overall we lost with class. 24-26, 26-28, 25-16, 25-19?, 13-15. It is hard when you outscore a team by 9 pts but lose the match but as our coach told the girls last night sometimes that is volleyball. Our team despite not playing their best ball last night going down 2-0 they never gave up. Keep the fight up and finish the season strong and get ready for the playoffs !!! District tournament and regionals still left to play. Remember this as my all time favorite Cheer coach says it’s always a great day to be a CAVALIER !!!!!!

Thanks as always to Marion !

One quick note – Final Set was 14-16, after the Cavs rallied from down 14-9 to tie the score.

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Kent State Golden Flashes

It’s still hard for me to call Alleghany High School 🏫 the Cougars because they were the Mountaineers for so long.

But the combining of the two Schools 🏫 up in the Highlands led to using the Covington Mascot. Our Cavaliers Football 🏈🏈🏈 team will look to build on last week’s stellar performance, also up in Buchanan (14-0 victory over James River), when they take on the Cougars.

The team is in the middle of a three game road swing and will be in search of consecutive Wins for the first time this seasons!

Quick recap before the start of the Drive 🚗:

The Volleyball 🏐 team played hard all the way to the very end last night 🌙 as the Knights needed extra time in all 3 sets.

App State Mountaineers look to earn another M.A.C. victory today at Home 🏡.

The Football team will look to defeat the team formally known as the Mountaineers up in the Highlands.

Going Full Circle 🔵 back to Marion – It’s a Great Day to be a Cavalier !!!

Let’s start out a Busy , Busy Friday by introducing our next Softball player from Lady 👩 Swat – #6 Mackinlee Osborne

Ladies & Gentlemen – Ms. Mackinlee Osborne !

Let tonight’s Cavaliers coverage begin ! 5 events on 4 venues in 2 Counties- running 🏃‍♂️ for the Evening…… Coverage and Photos 📷 from all 5 !!!

Coverage from JV Football 🏈 by Rick & Donna Nester

Running 🏃‍♂️ through the sign, a Football game tradition

Earlier today I caught up with the Softball group as their Fall Ball practice window closes.

Coach and Bayliegh

How strong 💪 is Coach Nester ? Strong enough to hit the cover of the Ball !

The Daughters are getting in some swings ahead of the rematch versus the Parents on Monday evening!

The fly ball portion of the practice.

The T-shirts 👕 that Ron helped create for the Parents ahead of Monday.

The Nester’s will continue with Football while Marion Harris is on the road to James River for Volleyball 🏐 and we hope that Greg Talley is in the Gymnasium with the Boys 👦 Basketball 🏀 scrimmage. Please check back for more updates.

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CCHS JV 🏈🏈🏈 up 7-0 after 1st quarter!

Alleghany 8-7, middle of 2nd Q….

Cindy’s group is on the Court finishing the warm-ups at Buchanan!

Two games in the Books for the Boys Basketball team – per Greg :
George Wythe won first game 39 -26 . CCHS won second game 31-25 . Third game about to srart..

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JV Football game now 16-7 in favor of Alleghany