Preposterous

If you're anything like me (and let's hope for your sake you're not) the summer has been way too slow in the sports world. The World Cup was a fun distraction, but other than that I've been going through withdrawals during these hot months.

(Note: I know baseball season is going on, and I love going to baseball games, but watching regular season MLB games is on par with watching old women play bridge to me. Wake me up in October.)

It's also meant that I haven't had high school sports to cover for the South Charlotte News. It's allowed me to branch out and do some fun stories, but I miss heading out to the field on Friday night.

But never fear, sports fans, August and September are soon upon us! And I've been milking the upcoming football season for all it's worth.

Since this will be my first season covering football in the South Charlotte area, I'm excited to see all these storied programs take the field in person. The Southwestern 4A (the public conference I'll be covering) is arguably the best conference in North AND South Carolina. The private school state championship should be renamed the Charlotte Invitational. Over the past ten years, only one team from outside of Charlotte has won the NCISAA state title (Raleigh's Ravenscroft, 2000). The three other teams that make up the rest of the titles are schools in my coverage area: Charlotte Latin, Charlotte Christian and Charlotte Country Day.

Over the past few weeks I've been working with one of my writers, Jay Edwards, to compile football previews on all the area teams. If you're from the Charlotte area or just love good high school football, check out what we've done so far. We will publish two more each Wednesday until the first week of the season, August 18. I'll add them to the list as they publish.

Enjoy!

• Charlotte Catholic (and the rest of the MEGA 7)
• Providence High
• Charlote Christian
• Charlotte Country Day
• Myers Park
• Providence Day
• East Mecklenburg
• Charlotte Latin
• Ardrey Kell
• South Mecklenburg
• Butler, Independence and Rocky River

 

Photo: Charlotte Latin quarterback Sam Spence, taken by Corey Inscoe.