GREENSBORO — North Carolina’s East-West All-Star Games in soccer, basketball and football have been canceled due to COVID-19, the organizers announced June 1.
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BOONE — The NCHSAA extended the “dead period” from June 1 to June 15.
RALEIGH — The North Carolina High School Athletic Association decided to extend its dead period that was originally to end June 1 until June 15.
BOONE — Watauga girl’s tennis player Jadyn Kadyk returned from playing all of her matches in tournaments last fall to playing for Watauga’s varsity team.
BOONE — Watauga’s athletic teams will not be blocked by the North Carolina High School Athletic Association from resuming practices in June.
BOONE — The Will Dicus Memorial Baseball Tournament has turned into a High Country tradition that promotes baseball locally and helps raise funds for baseball causes.
BOONE — On the recommendation of the Watauga Parks and Recreation Department, the Watauga County Board of Commissioners on May 19 voted to cancel all day camps for the summer.
BOONE — Standout student-athlete Brooke Byrd didn’t miss many varsity events in her four years on the courts at Watauga High School.
BOONE — In the modern prep sports world where athletes often specialize, Anderson Castle adds a little variety to his game.
WILMINGTON, Ohio — Former Watauga student Cyan DeBoard has been a cheerleader nearly all of her life.
BOONE — Watauga quarterback Anderson Castle won the Trail Blazer Award and Brooke Byrd won the Hall of Fame Award, both that are given to the top athletes at Watauga High School.
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BOONE — On the recommendation of the Watauga Parks and Recreation Department, the Watauga County Board of Commissioners on May 19 voted to cancel all day camps for the summer.
BOONE — Standout student-athlete Brooke Byrd didn’t miss many varsity events in her four years on the courts at Watauga High School.
BOONE — In the modern prep sports world where athletes often specialize, Anderson Castle adds a little variety to his game.
WILMINGTON, Ohio — Former Watauga student Cyan DeBoard has been a cheerleader nearly all of her life.
BOONE — Watauga quarterback Anderson Castle won the Trail Blazer Award and Brooke Byrd won the Hall of Fame Award, both that are given to the top athletes at Watauga High School.
BOONE — Chalk up another Watauga County event cancellation to the COVID-19 virus.
BOONE — Bryce Satterfield is proof that a running back who suffers a disastrous knee injury in high school football can still play Division I college football.
BOONE — Watauga’s wrestling program has hit some hard times in recent years. New coach Zach Strickland would like to be the coach to lift the Pioneers back to prominence.
BOONE — One of my favorite sports assignments ever did not take place in Boone, nor was it for the Watauga Democrat.
BOONE — When Watauga girls’ lacrosse player Madisyn Fisher signed her letter of intent May 6, she had not played a game with the Pioneers since March 11.
BOONE — Normally when a Watauga student-athlete signs a letter of intent, a ceremony is held at the school’s library.
BOONE — If things were normal, the Watauga football team would be spending this week preparing for spring practices, which were scheduled to begin May 11-22.
MIAMI — Don Shula, who won the most games of any NFL coach and led the Miami Dolphins to the only perfect season in league history, died Monday, May 4, at his home, the team said. He was 90.
CHAPEL HILL — The North Carolina High School Athletic Association Board of Directors has approved legislation that establishes new contact limitations for football during spring and fall practice sessions.
BOONE — Watauga girls’ and boys’ basketball coach Laura Barry received the Homer Morrison Memorial Eight Who Make a Difference Award from the North Carolina High School Athletic Association.
BOONE — Watauga High School’s athletic office and its booster club wanted to do something special for the senior spring athletes, who saw their seasons come to a halt on April 13.
BOONE — Watauga’s athletic department was looking for a way to honor its athletes that are in the graduating class of 2020.
BRISTOL, Conn — The first selection in the NFL draft from a North Carolina college played his college football in Hickory.
BOONE — The remaining spring high school athletic seasons and state basketball championships have been canceled for the 2020 spring season.
RALEIGH — Watauga distance runner Avery Cannon is a finalist for Boys Cross Country Runner of the Year by the website HighSchoolOT.com.
BOONE — It’s still unclear if the Watauga girls’ soccer team will be allowed to finish its 2020 season.
BOONE — The 2020 Watauga football schedule looks exactly like the 2019 slate. The sites are the only things that have changed.
BOONE — Watauga is sending its second-straight player to the East-West All-Star football game this summer.
BOONE — Athletic events may be shut down at Watauga High School, but the WHS athletic department is making sure Watauga athletics are not forgotten.
BOONE — Watauga standout girls’ basketball player Brooke Byrd was named to the West squad of the NCCA East-West All-Star game.
BOONE — The Appalachian State men’s basketball program announced the signing of two players to national letters of intent.
BOONE — Vic Johnson hopes that good film is enough to get him into the NFL.
BOONE — There are three teams on the court when a basketball game is played. There are the two teams on the scoreboard and the team of referees that enforce the rules.
BOONE — Watauga High’s athletes started their spring seasons, but last took the field in baseball, softball and girls’ soccer on March 13. Now, with schools ordered closed until May 15, the North Carolina High School Athletic Association has suspended high school athletics until then.
BOONE — Tony Peterson is no stranger to Appalachian State football.
CINCINNATI — Seth Breitenstein was a standout student-athlete at Watauga High School and at Appalachian State.
BOONE — Watauga student-athletes Brooke Byrd and Jake Watson have received their share of awards while playing sports with the Pioneers.
BOONE — Boone businessman and sports enthusiast Wayne Otto passed away March 31. Otto was 64.
BOONE — The Watauga High School cross-country team announced that Sophia Ritter committed and Watauga teammate Avery Cannon signed early to running at Charlotte.
BOONE — The Boone Area Sports Commission has helped bring several events to Watauga County.
BOONE — People who play, volunteer or organize the Will Dicus Memorial Baseball Tournament are all in a holding pattern to find out if the fundraising event will take place.
RALEIGH — The chances of there being a spring prep sports season took a big hit on March 23 when the North Carolina High School Athletics Association announced that it was suspending prep athletics through May 18 because of the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
BOONE — Watauga wingback Jaiden Bond announced on his Twitter page March 23 that he will play college football at Western Carolina.
BOONE — It’s no secret that the Watauga football team has to rebuild for the 2020 season.
BOONE — The Harlem Globetrotters announced they were postponing their March 24 game at the Holmes Center.
BOONE — Bailey Whitehead-Price is an artist, be it with watercolors or on the soccer field.
TAYLORSVILLE — The boys and girls of summer, or at least springtime, have been put on hold.
BOONE — The Mountain Valley Speedway sent a message via Facebook to its fans that open practice and inspection scheduled for March 21 has been canceled because of the COVID-19 outbreak.
RALEIGH — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper announced March 14 that all public schools will be closed for the next two weeks.
TAYLORSVILLE — The Alexander Central softball team scored seven runs in the first inning and claimed a 13-3 win over visiting Watauga in a Northwestern Conference game on March 13.
TAYLORSVILLE — Watauga pitcher Ryan Fox had his hands full, in his first varsity start, facing the Alexander Cougars March 13 at Stryder Field.
HICKORY — Even getting off to a slow start by missing several games at the start of the 2019-20 season couldn’t keep Watauga forward Anderson Castle off the All-Northwestern Conference team.
BOONE — It might be the only basketball played by ACC players, at least in the next two months.
CHAPEL HILL — CHAPEL HILL — Count the spring prep athletics season as a victim of the Coronavirus.
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