@HighSchoolOT Sr Contributor ✍🏻🎙️🎥. HS educator since ‘18! 2022 NCHSAA Media Person of the Year. 14-time NCPA winner. Covered games at 300 NC high schools.
Joined July 2009
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This isn't just high school basketball.
This isn't just any team.
These are the Lady Braves.
An entire nation rests on these players' shoulders.
A story that took me almost a year ⤵️
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Ye old work hat would like a newer model
Father’s Day is 7 days away
The Cup is… ???
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My optimism is sky high
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Man.
Never in my life have I seen the USMNT play like this, let alone on a stage like that.
That was something special. 🇺🇸❤️
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Knicks tonight
Canes tomorrow(?)
USA hosting the World Cup and DOING WELL?!?
Elite scenes this summer
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Jun 12
Myers Park's Henry Boner named Gatorade Boys Soccer Player of the Year highschoolot.com/news/boys-s…
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So glad HSOT got to chronicle their careers up close
Jun 10
Four years of aura.
The NCHSAA named Reidsville's Dionte Neal and Cherokee's Dvdaya Swimmer as the Pat Best male and female athletes of the year for 2025-26.
Swimmer was a four-sport start in cross country, volleyball, basketball, and track and field. She won individual titles and helped Cherokee capture three straight basketball championships and totaled 1,787 career points. Swimmer made three HighSchoolOT all-state teams in basketball. She will continue her academic and athletic career at the University of Hawaii.
Neal helped Reidsville win two state championships in both football and basketball while earning football championship MVP and basketball state championship MOP honors. He is the state's all-time leader in assists and top-10 nationally. He also played baseball and track and field. Neal made four HighSchoolOT all-state teams in football and four in basketball. Neal will continue his basketball career at UNC-Greensboro
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Jun 11
View the NCISAA's spring sports all-state teams that were recently released here: highschoolot.com/story/ncisa…
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I'm biased of course, but I think this is probably the best discussion you'll find on NCHSAA championships being won by parochial & charter schools
(watch, then respond to this tweet if you're worked up)
Jun 11
HSOT Press Box: Mallard Creek track DQ reversed, spring championships recap, trends in 8A highschoolot.com/news/press-…
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Happy for @tnBobSutton!
Jun 10
NCHSAA announces 2025-26 state award recipients highschoolot.com/news/NCHSAA…
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Life lessons in sports: “Anyone who does not know how to live with and for others has not yet understood life.”
Jun 10
The World Cup begins tomorrow, and many will watch the matches. Soccer reminds us of something we must not forget: life is not a race to show off on our own, but a path we learn to walk together. Anyone who does not know how to pass the ball, even if they have talent, has not yet understood the game. Anyone who does not know how to live with and for others has not yet understood life. #ApostolicJourney
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The series has been epic and so has the ESPN/ABC broadcast. Sean McDonough is in his flow state.
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He led the state in home runs, and now he's got the state's top honor.
Metrolina Christian's Jacob Seamon was named N.C. Gatorade Player of the Year this week. The LSU recruit hit .528 with 56 hits, 12 doubles, 13 homers and added 31 stolen bases.
This spring, Seamon helped Metrolina Christian reach the N.C. Independent School Athletic Association 4A state championship series.
More here: highschoolot.com/news/baseba…
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Jun 9
2025-26 HSOT Honors: Vote for the best in NC high school sports highschoolot.com/story/2025-…
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Always figured Mr. Beast was a D.H. Conley guy or The Oakwood School
Super-tiny Greenville Christian is even better
Jun 8
Mr. Beast as owner? The Angels might as well put him in the lineup at this point
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Being a long time 🏈 coach and graphic designer, we started NCHS Logos to help showcase many of the schools & athletes around NC w/ quality graphics, not some poor quality or inaccurate logos. Just upload the logos into Gipper, PS, Ai, or whatever you want. Logos are 100% free.
Not every ChatGPT flier/graphic is a bad choice, but I do wonder how some get school logos so very, very wrong.
Do you have to upload each one? If so, just use @NCHSLogos' site instead of letting it "invent" these new ones.
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Not every ChatGPT flier/graphic is a bad choice, but I do wonder how some get school logos so very, very wrong.
Do you have to upload each one? If so, just use @NCHSLogos' site instead of letting it "invent" these new ones.
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Exclusive: Major sports investor says he wants to bring MLB to Raleigh. “You’re making a bet that in the next five, 10, 20 years, the city is going to keep on growing. …. That’s a bet I’m willing to make.” wral.com/sports/courage-inve…
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Going to Laney and wearing No. 23 in any sport is such a flex
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Jun 4
🥍BOYS LACROSSE FINAL RANKINGS: The HighSchoolOT final statewide top 25 rankings for boys lacrosse, presented by State Employees' Credit Union, has Charlotte Catholic in the final top spot for the first time ever.
See the full and final top 25 here: highschoolot.com/story/2026-…
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🥍GIRLS LACROSSE FINAL RANKINGS: The HighSchoolOT final statewide top 25 rankings for girls lacrosse, presented by State Employees' Credit Union, has Pinecrest in the final top spot for the first time ever.
See the full and final top 25 here: highschoolot.com/story/2026-…
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