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The state's largest conference won't lack high-powered offenses this football season.
In each of the past two seasons, the Tri-Nine football champion has gone through the conference without a single loss. But the league this year is loaded.
As another scholastic athletic year starts, I wanted to introduce you to some new ways to stay abreast of all the high school sports action.
The Athens Drive girls golf team is the two-time defending state champion and will have enough returning players to compete for a third title this year.
As dominant as Broughton was last year in dual-team tennis, finishing 20-0 as state champions, perhaps its closest call came at Cary Tennis Park against Green Hope.
Green Hope made a run to the 2009 NCHSAA 4-A boys soccer championship game last year, despite losing 14 seniors from the year before.
A successful summer for Cary-area youth golfers reached its high-water mark on Friday at the Dogwood State Junior Championships in Holly Springs.
Last fall, the western Wake area produced two team state champions in cross country and one individual championship.
Between summer vacations and the popularity of club soccer, it's often hard for Athens Drive boys soccer coach Travis Seese to find enough players available for offseason scrimmages.
Former Panther Creek boys basketball coach L.J. Hepp will be a head coach next year for a team you've probably never heard of. Unless you're familiar with the Oita Heat Devils of the BJL - Basketba...
Dominick Glavich won five races and placed second in two more at the Raleigh Swimming Association's Summer Sizzle meet last weekend.
Mark Adams, a former boys basketball coach at Cardinal Gibbons High who has had great success coaching in Florida, is the new boys varsity basketball coach at Panther Creek.
Our SWakeSports female athlete of the year: Panther Creek pole vaulter/gymnast Cassie Crawford.
Mark Adams has been named the next varsity boys basketball coach at Panther Creek after a successful five-year stint at Florida's Sebastian River High School.
By the slimmest of margins, Apex held off Green Hope for the Tri-Nine's Wachovia Conference Cup, awarded to the athletic program with the best overall conference finish.
A new rule by the NCHSAA will change how the Tri-Nine Conference schedules its football season.
Trying to fill coaching vacancies in Wake County has been made more complicated by a recent hiring freeze and a proposed pay cut that would pay extra-duty employees 30 percent less.
With just three area teams left standing in this 2009-10 athletic year, it's just about time to reflect on who and what made this year so special in our area.
