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.
Thwack… The ball hit the exterior of the oil tank, hopped across the ground like a critter through tall grass and nestled into young Toby Burrell’s baseball glove.
After months away from one another, Swain County varsity athletes were finally able to reunite with teammates for optional workouts on Monday, June 15, but it is hardly what they remembered.
It is fitting that my first interview with Carrie Powell, Swain County High School’s athletic trainer, takes place during a brief window between a Swain County basketball workout, where she was on
A new facility at Swain County High is closing in on the finish line. New flooring and equipment went in over the past week. The plan is to call the facility the Maroon Strong Performance Center.
Alanna Robinson