Marion – please text the stories to Cindy at a decent hour.
David Broyles – the ones I sent to you, I will happily answer any questions you may have after 2pm.
To get home 🏡 to the 🐄🐮🐄🐮🐄🐮s
As Kalee Bunn celebrated her Senior Day last weekend at Ferrum College, one of her cousins was in the crowd and as it turns out, Callie Harris will be replacing her kingolk on the Lady Panthers Volleyball roster next year.
Bunn is closing out an impressive four year run on the Ferrum campus. The class of 2022 graduate has kept busy from start to finish, combining Volleyball, education and working an internship.
Head Coach Shelbylynn Adair has enjoyed Bunn being on roster and was quick to point out the level of a person she has been coaching.
” Kalee’s impact on Ferrum Volleyball extends far beyond any stat sheet. Kalee sets the standard for hard work and discipline,” said Adair. ” Kalee has excelled in the classroom, on the court and in the community. She embodies our motto, not self but others. We are grateful Kalee and wish her the best of luck as she pursues her degree in teaching.”
Harris is the next in line in two regards as she is the third and final daughter of Marion and Sheila Harris to continue both her education and Athletic career at the collegiate level. Both of her older Sisters, Adrienne Harris McGuire and Natalie Harris attended Emory and Henry.
The larger pipeline involves Carroll County High School Volleyball Coach Cindy Edwards and current Assistant Coach Kayla Nester. Nester enjoyed a high level of success and there are some Basketball banners hanging in the Gymnasium as proof.
Edwards was on the staff of Rick Nester back in 2015 and the duo had three players land on Ferrum Mountain from the State Championship team. Cheyenne Strickland, Emily Cook and Tiffanie Moore each made the most of their time wearing the Panthers colors.
Lady Cavaliers crossing the Blue Ridge Parkway to attend Ferrum College ✔
Harris Sisters attending College and playing sports ✔
Carroll County High School graduates attending Ferrum College and then entering the profession of education ✔
Ferrum Volleyball is set to finish up their home matches Wednesday night and close out the season with a handful of road trips
Note 📝 to David – I know that you can’t run all of the pictures in the Newspaper but I trust your judgment !
Special Thanks to Mrs Beth Bouldin for staying after the Boys 👦 game to help with this one!!!!
All photos 📷 belong to her
Here are the notes 📝 from Coach Richardson
9-7 them after 1
13-13 @ the half
19-16 them after 3
We got outscored 24-0 in the 4th. Lost 43-16.
We battled really hard in the first 3 quarters. Their size and strength just got to us in the 4th. I was very pleased with everything but the 4th.
I felt like we got rattled, and the wheels just fell off. We learn from our mistakes and move forward. We are back at it on Wednesday when we play Fort Chiswell at CCMS. Boys play at 5:30, girls to follow.
Thank You to both Kris Richardson and Beth Bouldin ❤. There is some more notes 📝 from the game a couple of stories back in the Day Long Blog.
1 Peter 5:7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
As we flip the calendar 📅 to November, it’s time to tweak the mission a bit but Thanks to Marion Harris we closed things out in style !
The goal for the past year was to create a ” Happy Place ” that would allow a person in Carroll County to wake ⏰ up and spend a few minutes reading about all the Awesome stuff that took place the day before in Carroll County.
No advertising, no bullying, no negativity – just positive stories about Cavalier comings and goings. Not just the Athletics but the pageantry as well as the Academics.
The past five days have been a blast because things actually worked out like they had been designed, with thousands of people checking in and enjoying the content. That was Marion being Marion and I wanted to publicly say THANKS for his efforts !!!
Perfect storm in that while I was busy trying hard to save the sanity of Mr David Broyles, Marion was making things work on the other end.
Back on September 13th at Cavalier Park we hosted an event and one of the things we did was celebrate the impending retirement of David Broyles. Greg Bolen, Kevin Burress and Russell Smoot teamed up to make it a priceless moment as we danced in costumes to Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.
Sadly, as David was set to sail off into the Sunset 🌇 and enjoy the rest of his life with his Bride 👰, Allen Worrell stepped away from the Newspaper 📰. This left the folks in Mt. Airy no other choice but to convince David to stay on and be a Gap person until a replacement for Allen was in place.
While there are people on both sides of the fence on Allen Worrell, know that he was a skilled editor. Very good at his job and in an industry that I have been in the past 50 years, so I’m qualified to say is dwindling away to notta.
Now, our friend David is trying hard to keep the operation upright and while a wonderful person who can write ✍ and tell a story, he’s not an editor. I watched as the community paper filled space with a NFL recap instead of asking me for another story..
I’m not sure just how long David can take one for the team in the manner that he is but as long as he’s trying, I will try and do my best to assist him. This week I was able to create four stories and each one was a fun write ✍ about local people doing cool things so hopefully it will all work out for another edition !
The entire Thought Process that Lin and I have with OneofUs.Care is to give people Hope and make people smile when the World 🌎 is itching for a fight. There is still hope and this past week Marion was helping me while I was helping David and Shawn Montgomery received solid coverage for his Cross Country program. We celebrated Darian Brown earning his first victory and marveled at Kris Richardson as the Basketball Whisperer.
Kindness matters and there are so many levels of bullying that go undetected. It’s okay to give your neighbor the benefit of the doubt because we are all facing serious problems every day.
The Duke – Baylor game isn’t until Monday night so there’s no need to worry yet.
After that game in Paris, Marion and I will team up to create a International event by covering the Carroll County at Abingdon Regional Volleyball match. That will be Fun…
The next piece of business will be to create a page for the month long adventure with Duke University Women’s Basketball 🏀. This is the closing chapter for my Hoops Book 📖 as it will include the eight games that the Blue Devils will play this month.
Paris, Durham(2), Greenbriar Resort, Liberty University, Tampa Florida and finally two games in Las Vegas.
For the readers that are interested in this story they can just click on that page.
While this is taking place, I will be covering some Middle School Basketball and supporting whoever wants some positive attention.
Have yourself a Blessed Day 🙌
