This Saturday, the opulent Carolina Natatorium housed in the Sol Blatt P.E. Center on the University of South Carolina campus will be the setting for the 2014 South Carolina High School League (SCHSL) boys and girls state swimming championships.
When the smoke clears, state champions in SCHSL Classes AAAA (the state’s largest enrollment classification) and AAA (second-largest) will be crowned.
Click here to watch the Class AAAA championships. Click here to watch the Class AAA championships.
For the second consecutive year the South Carolina High School League (SCHSL) State Championship in boys lacrosse features the Wando Warriors (Mt. Pleasant, SC) and the Fort Mill Yellow Jackets. Wando (15-2), the No. 1 ranked team in SC according to LAXPower, defeated Fort Mill (12-3) in last year’s title matchup.
This week, the Southeast, MidAtlantic and Northeast were slammed with wintry weather. Putting safety first means that many state’s have postponed planned championships for this weekend in order to give their student athletes safe roads to travel and ample time to prepare.
Below is a quick recap of all the scheduling changes we are currently aware of. Please check in with your local association for further details and check the schedule at the NFHS Network for updates.
ALABAMA
Wrestling: The AHSAA has moved some of its preliminary matches from Friday to Saturday. The NFHS Network was originally only going to be covering the finals on Saturday, however, we will now stream a switched production of the whole day’s events on Saturday starting at 10am leading up to the finals coverage on Saturday at 2pm ET.
CONNECTICUT
Indoor Track: Connecticut is delaying their Indoor Track Championships originally scheduled for this Saturday to Monday, February 17 at 3:00 pm ET.
GEORGIA
Wrestling: Originally scheduled for this weekend, the wrestling championships have been rescheduled for next Friday, February 21 and Saturday, February 22. New times and schedule of events to be announced.
Basketball: Semifinal rounds will remain on Saturday, March 1st, however, some earlier rounds have been affected:
Check back here for updated wrestling and basketball broadcasting schedules – we will schedule them as soon as possible.
MARYLAND
Wrestling: Maryland’s Wrestling Championships-Duals have been moved from this Saturday, February 15 to Tuesday, February 18.
RHODE ISLAND
Gymnastics: RIIL Gymnastics will now take place at 10:00 am ET instead of the planned 1:00 pm ET start time this Saturday, February 15.
SOUTH CAROLINA
Wrestling: SCHSL has postponed the AA, AAA and AAAA Dual Wrestling Championships originally scheduled for tomorrow, February 15 to several dates next week.
The NFHS Network’s inaugural sports season is in the books and with it came numerous record setting performances from student-athletes across the nation.
Despite treacherous weather conditions amongst much of the southeast this past weekend, there were many fantastic finishes to the 2013-2014 football season with some incredible highlights, statistics and celebrations.
Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I was so tripped up on tryptophan that we are a bit behind in recognizing last week’s School of the Week. Hopefully you saw Westwood High School in Blythewood, S.C., featured on the NFHS Network home page.
The program advisor, Lynn Washington, was also traveling last week, but was nice enough to take a moment to share a little bit more about their program. Westwood is a new high school, opening just last year. The School Broadcast Program had their first broadcast in November of 2012 and streams sports in addition to special events and a daily morning news show, The Red Hot Report.
“PlayOn (NFHS Network) has given the students so many opportunities and experiences,” Lynn said. “We have grown in many ways this year and really think our program has as well.”
The School Broadcast Program is part of Westwood’s news and sports broadcasting class and has about 25 students participating. They stream and post the morning news show each day and also post it on the school blog.
“A great story is last year we were broadcasting a boys basketball game and we also tweet – we got one from the high school rep for ESPN that said that he did not who was the girl broadcasting but he would hire her for ESPN in the future.”
Which reminds me – are you following the NFHS Network on Twitter? We’d love to connect with you, share your links and promote your events. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram: @NFHSNetwork. We’ll follow back and can’t wait to see what interesting events you are covering this year! And don’t forget to tag your behind the scenes photos of your broadcast team in action with #WeAreHighSchool for a chance at being recognized as School of the Week.
You can follow Westwood High School’s School Broadcast Program at @RedHawkTV.
On November 9, the Charleston (South Carolina) Bishop England High girls volleyball team will seek to add to its already amazing state title resume. Click here to watch the state championship match on the NFHS Network.
Dutch Fork High School and Dorman High School in South Carolina came into their game with each other last Friday night undefeated. The game did not disappoint. Amidst the highlights was junior Dutch Fork running back Matt Colburn who accounted for 410 all-purpose yards – 286 of them rushing – and 5 touchdowns. Dutch Fork narrowly defeated Dorman with a final score of 42-39.
Matt Colburn said after the game, “I just react on instinct. I try to run physical. Football is a physical sport. I like getting low and I have that extra confidence through strength and conditioning.”
The highlights speak for themselves.
Tune in to the NFHS Network Friday night to see more game changing performances LIVE from football games around the country.
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