Cherokee- With no school that morning, Swain woke up preparing for their preview conference race in Cherokee last Wednesday, October 5th which would show what the conference meet in two weeks will be like. The afternoon weather was cooler than most leveling out at 80 degrees. The middle school XC race had a few runners who had trouble … [Read more...]
Swain Defeats Carney Classic Course
Hayesville- The Carney Classic of Hayesville is located at the Hiwassee Dam featuring a gruesome run straight up to the top of the dam itself. With the weather nice and cool, our Swain runners did quite well at this race despite the horrific hill they had to run up. Even though a couple of our girls were missing from this race, our Lady Devils … [Read more...]
Swain Rambles by the River at Asheville Meet
Asheville- Saturday, September 24th started out chilly with clear skies for our cross country teams this past weekend for their race at Asheville Christian Academy. With the first race to start at 930AM, our Maroon Devils started to do their warm-up run and dynamic stretches before lining up against 13 bigger teams with 111 runners in all. After … [Read more...]
Shuler’s 30 Not Enough As Devils Fall 82-75
Bryson City - It was a career night for sophomore Grant Shuler. Shuler connected on 6 three point baskets on the way to a career high 30 points. Robbinsville pulled out to a 6 point lead in the first half and maintained that throughout much of the second half. At one point the Devils pulled within 5, but Cruz Galaviz connected on a three to put … [Read more...]
Devils Run Well at Western Regionals
SWANNANOA – (Special from Philip Latter) The Lady Devils advanced to the NCHSAA 1A State Championship for the third consecutive year after a record-setting performance at the 1A West Region in Swannanoa. For the first time in school history, four girls ran faster than 22 minutes in the same meet. That kept Swain in contention for second place … [Read more...]