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SportsTalk: Swartz Looking For A Future In Pro Basketball
It’s the dream of most basketball players to play in the pros after their college career comes to an end and that’s exactly what Georgia Tech’s Cameron Swartz hopes to do. Swartz, who is the great granddaughter of Leon and Rebecca Frazier of Bear Pond, here in Vance County, is finishing up her college career
SportsTalk: Mark Packer Remembers His Father, Billy Packer
Enjoy this post of Mark Packer speaking about his father, legendary basketball announcer Billy Packer. CLICK PLAY! WIZS Radio · SportsTalk: Mark Packer Remembers His Father, Billy Packer
SportsTalk: Richardson Oversees Success Of Spring Sports At Crossroads
Spring is a busy time for athletics at Crossroads Christian and that means Scottie Richardson, the school’s athletic director, is also busy. For the most though, Richardson has a smile on his face since his teams are performing well. “Spring sports are wide open,” Richardson commented on Thursday’s SportsTalk. The varsity baseball team is 3-1
SportsTalk: Henderson Native Kaci Roberson Staying Busy With Softball At Pembroke
Confidence on the softball field is something that Henderson native Kaci Roberson certainly doesn’t lack. She is a senior at UNC-Pembroke and has spent most of her life playing softball. “Softball was my number one sport growing up. I’ve been playing since I was four years old,” Roberson says. All of those years on field
SportsTalk: Local High School Programs Struggling With Bad Weather
Talk to Ray Noel, Athletic Director at Vance County High School, or Mike Joyner, Athletic Director at Kerr Vance Academy, and both men will tell you the same thing. Weather has slowed Spring sports to a crawl. “We need games,” said Ray Noel on Thursday’s SportsTalk. “The weather has been unforgiving,” Noel added. Vance County’s
SportsTalk: Downey Losing Eight Seniors From 2022-23 Team
Even though Vance Charter’s boy’s basketball team didn’t win a state championship, Coach Taron Downey is proud of the team’s achievement of going to the state playoffs for the last two consecutive years. It’s also nice to be recognized for the hard work! Downey was voted as Coach of the Year for the Triangle North
SportsTalk: Rigsbee Relies On Youth For KVA Baseball
Kerr-Vance Academy’s young baseball team is coming off of a 4-1 win over East Wake Academy on Wednesday. While it was a good win for Kerr-Vance, Coach Mike Rigsbee knows his team is very young. “We are young but we are talented,” Rigsbee said on SportsTalk on Thursday. “We are relying on our junior and
SportsTalk: Hammett Optimistic About Oxford Prep Spring Sports
Oxford Prep Athletic Director John Hammett’s teams are coming off a strong winter sports season. Both boys and girls basketball teams made the state playoffs and, for the first time in school history, a swimmer made the State meet. According to Hammett, “We have a good group of girls who got better as the season
SportsTalk: Vance Charter Girls Advance To Second Round
“My job is to ruin the fun,” according to Brian Howard, Head Coach of the girl’s basketball team at Vance Charter School. His was referring to his team becoming over confident after advancing to the second round of the state playoffs. “Our confidence level is always high. Every year we expect to make the playoffs,”
SportsTalk: Crossroads Christian Girls Play For State Championship Saturday
It may be a few days early to cue up Queen’s “We Are the Champions” but, Crossroads Christian Athletic Director Scottie Richardson hopes the girl’s basketball team comes home Saturday as champions. It will be the first time the girl’s team has played in a championship game. The game against Northside Christian Academy will take
