Back when Nike was originally rolling out the Air Jordan brand they had a series of commercials where a young Spike Lee played the role of Mars Blackmon and repeatedly said its gotta be the Shoes Mike, its gotta be the shoes 👟👟👟.

  Kayla Nester is in her initial year of being the Athletic Director at Carroll County Middle School 🏫 and wow, does she have two Big Time Basketball minds leading her programs !!

Not sure who plays the role in the commercial but I can see Mrs Nester holding a Basketball in her hands and someone saying, its gotta be the AD, its gotta be the AD !!

Let’s get back to the group that Coach Brown took over to Floyd County and how the opportunity came about in the first place. In the words of the artist 🎨 known as Coach Brown :

” I got a text from Floyd county varsity coach asking if I had a 7th grade group that could play Saturday. I coach a group called the raptors which is a combination of galax and Carroll kids. I got 10 of them together and took them to play in the “2025 Floyd County Christmas Bash”. I didn’t know what to expect because we haven’t started travel ball practices yet but we ended up winning the whole thing.

   We played a team out of Blacksburg and a team named team xtreme which has kids from Pulaski, auburn , and christiansburg. We played them each once and went 2-0. We got a bye in to the championship where we beat team xtreme.

    We beat them by 2 the first time around and got them by like 10-15 in the championship. Super proud of both galax and Carroll kids and we plan to go to another tournament this coming Saturday in Patrick County.”.

Congratulations 👏👏👏 to Coach Brown and the players from both Schools 🏫 !!

Keep up the Great Work Coach !!!

Beth Bouldin with her update on the schedule

No CCMS basketball today, all games cancelled.😞
Hope everyone enjoys the snow day! Stay safe!

Fun throw back photo to the Galax game. 😎

Romans 15:5 Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:

Have yourself a Blessed Day 🙌

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The above link takes you to the beginning of the story from Thursday night 🌙. Now, as Paul Harvey was famous for saying, ” Here’s the Rest of the Story “

” Considering we had 1 girl miss the game from having strep, others coughing their heads off, 1 broke a finger during the game…..overall we played well. Our defense swamed the ball most of the game. Our offense happened in spurts with a few layups and jumpshots. We have to continue to improve offensively. Very pleased to get the win, the girls really deserved it.”

Thank You Coach…

Patrick County MS –  3   2  0  2 –   7

Carroll County MS –  7   6. 4  3 – 20

CC – Zari Cushman 8, Briley McGhee 8, Raegan Combs 2, Maggie Branch 2. (20)

While I have never had the privilege of meeting Mr Bowman myself, I wanted to add my gratitude 🙏 for his efforts with the new uniforms for our Hoopsters this season.

Apologies for the delay in getting the story completed but when Kris isn’t coaching this group, he’s coaching another group or getting snow of the roads for VDOT.