Watauga High Sports

  • HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL: Greene steps down after 2 years as Watauga’s head coach - By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com BOONE — Ethan Greene has resigned after two seasons as head varsity baseball coach at Watauga High. Greene guided the Pioneers to a 9-9 record that included 8-6 last season and a fourth-place finish in the Northwestern 3A-4A. They 1-3 the year before in a season shortened by COVID-19. He is a former Watauga pitcher who ...
  • HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL: Watauga has new varsity boys head coach, son of former leader - By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com BOONE — Watauga High has a new boys’ varsity basketball coach whose dad is a former Pioneers head coach in the same sport. The Pioneers have selected Bryson Payne, son of Marc Payne, as the replacement for Laura Barry. She will return to coaching only the Watauga varsity girls. Watauga went 3-9 overall and 2-9 in ...
  • HIGH SCHOOLS: Breintenstein, Triplett lead Watauga’s first Hall of Fame class - Late Pioneers coaches, female track and field star, local radio broadcaster to also be honored By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com BOONE – Watauga High’s first Hall of Fame Class includes two of the best to play varsity football for the Pioneers. Eric Breitenstein — a 2008 graduate who is now an assistant football coach at his alma mater — and linebacker ...
  • HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Watauga will have Satterfield back for senior season - He had moved to Louisville after his dad was named head coach there   By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com BOONE – Watauga High’s varsity football team got a big lift as practice opened this week – the return of senior running back Bryce Satterfield. WATA 1450 AM’s Mike Kelly first reported Satterfield will play his final season with the Pioneers, living ...
  • HIGH SCHOOLS: Watauga names head coaches for baseball, girls’ golf - HobbsDailyReport.com BOONE – Watauga High has hired a new varsity baseball head coach and a new head coach for girls’ varsity golf and both played for the Pioneers. Ethan Greene, a former starting quarterback for Watauga who was a pitching ace as a senior for the Pioneers, has been promoted from head junior varsity baseball coach to replace Seth Freeman. ...
  • HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL: Freeman leaving Watauga after 2 seasons as head coach - HobbsDailyReport.com BOONE – Seth Freeman has decided he won’t return for a third season as head baseball coach at Watauga High. Freeman, who came to Boone from Cherryville, is returning to live there as he also prepares to get married. The Pioneers were 15-31 under Freeman in two seasons, including 10-15 overall this season and 9-5 in the Northwestern 3A-4A. ...
  • HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL: Watauga’s Berry to coach both varsity teams next season - HobbsDailyReport.com BOONE – Watauga High will have one varsity head coach for both of its basketball teams next season, announcing girls’ head coach Lauren Berry will also be the boys’ head coach next season. She has coached the Watauga varsity girls the last three seasons. MORE ON THE STORY BY THE WATAUGA DEMOCRAT: https://www.wataugademocrat.com/sports/local_sports/laura-barry-hired-to-coach-whs-boys-basketball-program/article_07cd640f-11c8-51cd-a428-c224bd032185.html
  • HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL: Watauga’s Sanders exits after 15 years as boys’ head coach - HobbsDailyReport.com BOONE – Rob Sanders – whose 200 wins as head boys’ basketball coach at Watauga High is the most in school history — won’t be back for a 16th season. The Pioneers announced on Tuesday they’ve started a search for a new head coach and that Sanders will remain at the school as a physical education teacher. Sanders became ...
  • NORTHWESTERN 3A-4A: Watauga drills Alex Central in showdown game in Boone - Pioneers dominant as they pick up career win No. 99 for head coach   HobbsDailyReport.com BOONE – Jackson Greene threw for two early scores and ran for another, and Eli Suggs posted 16 tackles as Watauga High made a showdown for first place in Northwestern 3A-4A football on Friday night a mismatch. The Pioneers rolled 35-0 over previously unbeaten and ...
  • NORTHWESTERN 3A-4A: Early interception return TDs power Watauga over South Caldwell - HobbsDailyReport.com HUDSON – Sparked by two first-quarter interception returns for touchdowns, Watauga High rolled to a 46-12 road victory over South Caldwell on Friday night in Northwestern 3A-4A football. Grant Oliver and Zach West had pick-sixs in the first 12 minutes to help the Pioneers (5-0, 1-0) win and set up a key home game Friday night at 7:30 p.m. ...
  • 2018 HS FOOTBALL: Watauga’s Satterfield top returning rusher in area - HobbsDailyReport.com TOP RETURNING RUSHERS FOR 2018 (all totals are unofficial) Editor’s note: The list of returning rushers 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 ...
  • HIGH SCHOOL TRACK AND FIELD: Watauga sweeps Northwestern 3A-4A titles - HobbsDailyReport.com BOONE – The Watauga High girls and boys captured Northwestern 3A-4A track and field championships on their own track on Wednesday. The Pioneers’ girls scored 224 points to finish ahead of Alexander Central (185) while the Watauga boys nipped Alexander Central 151-143 ½. Sophia Ritter and Emma Brown led the Watauga girls by winning the 1,600 and 3,200 and ...