Swain County High School Athletic Director and Head Football Coach Neil Blankenship said he was surprised when he was awarded the Charlie Adams Distinguished Service Award for Region 8 during the N
It was a Maroon Devil Friday night, and James Douthit was preparing to take the field for the first time. In his hands wasn’t a helmet or leather ball but a saxophone.
The game ball was supposed to go to Swain, or so the Maroon Devils thought. Instead, a Franklin High player snatched the ball from the referee and ran away with it.
The beginning of North Carolina high school sports season will be delayed for at least another ten days. After Gov.
As a senior guard at Franklin High School, Michael Turner faced future UNC Tar Heel and NBA player Rashad McCants twice.
Kayla McMahan won a state championship in volleyball, is in the Swain County High School Athletic Hall of Fame for softball, and rounded out the year by playing basketball in the winter, yet her fi
In a press release issue on Wednesday, the NCHSAA announced that it will push back the beginning of all fall sports until at least Sept. 1.
Ian Roper’s first introduction to wrestling was as happenstance as Harry meeting Sally.
Growing up, Adam Jaimez watched his mother work two, sometimes three jobs at a time to keep the household afloat for her three children.