HobbsDailyReport.com SHELBY – The high school football season gets an early start for Freedom and Shelby. They’ll open their schedules on Wednesday night at 7:30 p.m. at Shelby – two nights early – due to the American Legion World Series, which begins on Thursday, being played at Shelby High. Freedom is coming off a 7-5 season and will be playing …
NCHSAA HALL OF FAME: Class of 2018 includes Freedom’s Crump
HobbsDailyReport.com CHAPEL HILL – The next class of Hall of Famers in the North Carolina High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA) includes a Freedom basketball coach who guided five teams to state title games and three to state championships. Marsha Crump — who coached the Patriots from the late 1970s until retiring after the 1996-97 season — was among eight new …
2018 HS FOOTBALL: Freedom’s Birchfield area’s top returning passer this season
HobbsDailyReport.com TOP RETURNING PASSERS FOR 2018 (all totals are unofficial) Editor’s note: The list of returning passers is copyrighted by HobbsDailyReport.com and may not be reproduced or republished in its entirety without permission. Email Chris Hobbs at hobbsdailyreport@gmail.com to request that permission. Note: A player’s status as “returning” determined by being listed as an underclassman on his school’s 2017 varsity …
WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL: UNC-Wilmington adds former Freedom star to coaching staff
HobbsDailyReport.com WILMINGTON – The women’s basketball staff at UNC-Wilmington added another coach with Greater Hickory area ties on Friday. The university announced head coach Karen Barefoot, a former head coach at Lenoir-Rhyne University, has hired former Freedom High star Ali Ford as an assistant coach. Barefoot has been at UNC-W for one season (12-19), coming there after six seasons as …
NCHSAA WEBB AWARD: Freedom’s Reddick wins state coach of year award among females
HobbsDailyReport.com CHAPEL HILL – Amber Reddick, who reached 300 career basketball wins as head coach of Freedom High’s girls this season, has won a prestigious state coaching award. Reddick is the 2018 Tony Webb Coach of the Year among females, the North Carolina High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA) announced Monday. Roy Cooper, track and field coach at Apex for 33 …