One of Red Tornadoes’ all-time best athletes leaving The Citadel basketball staff By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY – As Hickory High’s next varsity boys’ basketball head coach, Daniel Willis is excited about impacting the program by stressing the things that got him where he is. While playing multiple sports for the Red Tornadoes, Willis said he was taught discipline, …
BREAKING NEWS: Willis returning home to coach Hickory varsity boys
He is leaving The Citadel as associate head coach to work at his alma mater By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY – Daniel Willis — one of Catawba County’s top all-time high school basketball players — is coming home. Willis, an associate head coach at The Citadel, had a physical education teaching position approved on Monday night by the Hickory City …
OBIT: Former Sports Editor Dan Richards dead at age 84
Ex-Hickory sports figure had career of more than 50 years in journalism By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com LILLINGTON – Dan B. Richards, whose tenures as sports editor at two newspapers named Daily Record set a tone for sports coverage for many years in those North Carolina communities, died Sunday at age 84. Richards became sports editor of The Hickory Daily …
LEGION BASEBALL: Services for Waters, ex-Post 48 leader and State Commissioner, this week
Receiving on Tuesday night , celebration of life on Wednesday afternoon at Providence Baptist Church By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY – Roy C. Waters — a fixture in American Legion baseball at both a local and state level for more than 25 years – will be buried on Wednesday. Waters, 84, became athletic director for Hickory Post 48 in …
HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL: Manjaress wins Brookins Award at Lincolnton
HobbsDailyReport.com LINCOLNTON – E.J. Manjaress, voted MVP of the Lincolnton High baseball team as a senior and the Wolves’ junior varsity team as a sophomore, has been awarded the 2020 Jonathan Brookins Memorial Scholarship winner. Manjaress, a shortstop and pitcher, receives a $2,500 award in honor in memory of Brookins, a first baseman and pitcher on Lincolnton’s state 2A title …