Lance Stallings, Athletic Director for Vance Charter School, and his teams have been very successful on the field during the Spring sports season. The school’s lacrosse team, co-conference champions with J.F. Webb, hosts a second round playoff game against Swansboro Friday night. The softball team is currently in second place in the conference and two golfers, Hunter Gill and Bill Taylor, have qualified for state regionals.
Stallings, who was on SportsTalk Thursday, also announced that senior Christian Bean has been named male Athlete of the Year for the second consecutive year and sophomore Katherine Suther has been named female Athlete of the Year. “These two students are nominated and selected by the entire athletic department not just their coaches,” Stallings said. Both Bean and Suther joined Stallings on SportsTalk to talk about the award.
Bean plays three sports at Vance Charter: cross country, lacrosse and basketball. Once he graduates this year he plans on attending Appalachian State and majoring in recreation management. Suther also plays three sports: volleyball, basketball and soccer. “Soccer is my favorite,” Suther said. “We’ve grown together as a team. We had a lot of freshmen who had never played before,” Suther said. Suther also said that even though she is only a sophomore she has already begun to look ahead to college where she is considering going into sports medicine.
Soccer is just winding up the regular season and plays Oxford Prep Thursday night. A win by Vance Charter will ensure the team a share of the conference championship, but a loss will give Oxford Prep the title outright.
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