Last minute concession opportunity

The JV VB game got canceled for tomorrow 10/13/17.  

XC/T&F were scheduled to work concessions...we were offered concessions for today.  

Any chance anyone could work today?  

Mr. Schmitz said he would need you here at 3:30 pm.  

Let me know ASAP

Congrats Alyssa!

Fall 2017 Scholar-Athlete Essay Winners

OCT 9, 2017

CHAPEL HILL—Alyssa Wright of Lincoln Charter High School and Benjamin Ward of John A. Holmes High School won top honors in the eighth North Carolina High School Athletic Association Scholar-Athlete essay contest. Winners were chosen blindly by a panel of judges with criteria that included originality, content, organization, and grammar.

The NCHSAA Scholar-Athlete program is one of the Association’s most popular voluntary programs and recognizes excellence in the classroom as well as on the playing court or field.

As part of the program, the NCHSAA offers the essay contest annually, with student-athletes submitting a 400-word essay each semester. The Fall 2017 semester’s prompt asked had student-athletes to write about the different responsibilities they have as a scholar-athlete. One male and one female winner were chosen from the pool of entries.

Wright is a sophomore at Lincoln Charter who competes in cross-country and basketball.  In her essay, Wright described the multiple responsibilities scholar-athletes have that include, time management, and balance.  Another responsibility she wrote about was expectations as she described, “Most athletes that play for a school have certain expectations held by that school, and it is a responsibility for the athlete to uphold these expectations.”  

Ward is a senior baseball student-athlete at John A. Holmes High School. The responsibilities of a scholar-athlete that Ward described were time management, leading by example and making sacrifices. Ward describes the responsibility of sacrifice as, “The biggest reward is when you sacrifice and keep your priorities in order to help the team to the finish line.  This means being responsible for getting things done in the classroom and on the fields…It requires discipline.”

The scholar-athlete essay competition female runner-up was Natalie Swaim, a senior student-athlete on the swimming and diving team at Tuscola High School. The male runner-up for the NCHSAA scholar-athlete essay competition was senior cross-country, indoor track & field, and baseball student-athlete, Owen Henry, from Holly Springs High School.
  
Congratulations to the winners of the eighth North Carolina High School Athletic Association Scholar-Athlete Essay Competition.  Learn more about the scholar-athlete program here and look for the spring Scholar-Athlete Essay competition in April 2018! 

WEEK ELEVEN 10/09 - 10/14 - XC PRACTICE/MEET SCHEDULE

WEEK ELEVEN 10/09 - 10/14 - XC PRACTICE/MEET SCHEDULE

Day	Time	Location	Transportation
Monday, October 9	3:15 - 5:30 p.m.	LCS - Denver	Linc Athletes Check Athletic Website
Tuesday, October 10	3:15 - 5:30 p.m.	LCS - Denver	Linc Athletes Check Athletic Website
Wednesday, October 11	3:15 - 5:30 p.m.	LCS - Denver	Linc Athletes Check Athletic Website
Thursday, October 12	3:15 - 5:30 p.m.	LCS - Denver	Linc Athletes Check Athletic Website
Friday, October 13	3:15 - 5:30 p.m.	LCS - Denver	Linc Athletes Check Athletic Website
Saturday, October 14 NCRUNNERS INVITE	9:00 AM Boys Invitational 5K (top 7 runners per school) 9:30 AM Girls’ Invitational 5K (top 7 runners per school) 11:00 AM Boys’ Frosh/Soph 5K (10 runners per school) 11:40 AM Girls Frosh/Soph 5K (10 runners per school) 12:00 PM Team Awards	Ivey Redmon Sports Complex, Kernersville, NC	Linc Athletes Check Athletic Website

CONGRATS KENNY!

CONGRATS KENNY!

Congratulations to Senior Kenny Schild on his verbal commitment to Methodist University in Fayetville, NC.  Kenny will be running XC, Indoor Track and playing baseball.  I am very proud of Kenny as I have had Kenny in the running family since 6th grade.  Kenny is a young man that is grounded in his faith and will do great things.  Kenny is also our first male runner to commit to run in college!

Ramble by the River RECAP

2017 Ramble by the River

Finally cooler temperatures for one of our team's favorite destinations to compete.  Bright sunny skies and crisp mountain air provided great conditions for some fast racing! 

Men's Side
Senior Kenny Schild continues to move back into his old form with a very respectable seasons best of 17:45 just six seconds shy of his personal record from 2014.  After a very exciting week with his verbal commitment to Methodist University for XC, Indoor & Baseball he is keeping his foot on the gas peddle for a very successful senior season.  Curtis Hermes ran a seasons best/personal record and accomplished a major milestone in breaking the 18 minute mark giving the men's team three runners under 18 minutes.  Cutter Law ran a PR of 18:14 and Jonas Guffey ran a seasons best of 18:51 only 15 seconds off of his personal record of 18:36 set last season at East Lincoln.

The men finished a very respectable 2nd place behind 4A west power AC Reynolds.

Women's Side
After a month of battling injuries there are still some very bright spots on the ladies team.  Senior Emily Elliott ran a very respectable 21:30 only three seconds off of her PR.  Megan Minaudo continues to impress.  Her improvement/progression through this season has shown her grit and determination.  Megan will make a strong run at being the #1 girl on the LCS roster by seasons end.  Megan bested her seasons best/personal record by 50 seconds and ran a 21:45 moving her tied with Caity Born for second on the depth chart.  Sophomore Emma Lasarsky destroyed her PR with a time of 22:05.  Also interesting to note, Emma ran a 24:04 at the same meet last year as a Freshman.  Hard worker, determined, bought in, trusts her coach and the process!  Sophomore Alyssa Wright continues to impress and has worked her way into a seasons best/PR every race this year and 6th place on the eagles depth chart.  Emily Guffey set a new PR and Senior Grace Cary set a new SB time.

The women finished 4th out of 16 teams and 6 points ahead of 1A West opponent Murphy.

Hare and Hounds RECAP

Sorry for the delay on the recap...

2017 Hare & Hounds Invite 

Men
LCS XC had a solid day at the Hare and Hounds Invite at McAlpine Creek Park on Saturday, September 23rd.  Drew Zink became the first ever runner at LCS to break the 17 minute mark in 5000m/5K in posting a personal record, seasons best, school record 16:39.16.  Drew also placed 3rd in a VERY competitive field of runners in the boys invitational race.  Kinser Hudson, Curtis Hermes and Thomas Cruz also posted personal records in the invitational race and sophomore Jonas Guffey posted a seasons best time as well.  The Eagle Men placed 6th out of 47 teams in the invitational division.  In the open race Swicegood, Wiltshire, Renegar, Tibbits, Wilz, Rhodes and Xavier Ward posted seasons best times and personal records.

Women
Our ladies had a tough race slot as the temperatures began to increase to make the race uncomfortable and very dusty.  However there were some high points with Megan Minaudo continuing to shine week in and week out with another personal record and season best time.  The Guffey girls had seasons best and personal records as well as Mackenzie Gavin and Alyssa Wright.

SPAC 1A Pre-Conference RECAP

Sorry for the delay on the recap...

SPAC 1A Pre-Conference
Congrats to LCS Men's and Women's XC teams for victories at the SPAC 1A Pre-Conference meet at Rescue Squad Park on Thursday, September 14th.  The top seven were dominate while working on pack running/race strategy.  We also saw many PR and SB times posted on the very tough LCS/Rescue Squad Park home course.

SPAC 1A Pre-Conference Results
GIRLS 5,000 METER RUN FINALS
PLACE                     ATHLETE                          TEAM                                RESULT                          POINTS
1                              Maggie Hoey 12             Lincoln Charter               23:41.98                       1
2                              Emily Elliot 12                 Lincoln Charter               23:44.87                       2
3                              Megan Minaudo 11       Lincoln Charter               23:46.00                       3
5                              Emma Lasarsky 10         Lincoln Charter               23:53.27                       5
6                              Alyssa Wright 10            Lincoln Charter               25:32.87                       6
13                            Grace Cary 12                 Lincoln Charter               27:13.38                       13
14                            Emily Guffey11               Lincoln Charter               28:22.12                       14
18                            Jenna Griggs 10              Lincoln Charter               29:02.53                        --
20                            Jillian Aganad 9              Lincoln Charter                29:05.17                        --
25                           Adrianna Guffey 9          Lincoln Charter                31:53.62                        --
28                           Bryanna Blackmon 12    Lincoln Charter                35:32.82                        --

TEAM SCORES
PLACE TEAM                      POINTS        SCORERS                             TIMES
1          Lincoln Charter      17                1+2+3+5+6 (13+14)          1:50 1-5 Split | 24:07 Avg
2          Highland Tech        55                7+10+11+12+15 (16+19)  2:57 1-5 Split | 26:55 Avg
3          Thomas Jefferson  56                4+8+9+17+18 (21+24)      6:17 1-5 Split | 27:03 Avg
4          Cherryville              116             20+22+23+25+26 (27)       7:00 1-5 Split | 36:02 Avg

BOYS 5,000 METER RUN FINALS
PLACE ATHLETE                         TEAM                       RESULT         POINTS
2         Drew Zink 10                  Lincoln Charter       18:05.02      2
4         Kenny Schild 12             Lincoln Charter        19:10.77     4
5         Kinser Hudson 10          Lincoln Charter        19:12.08     5
6         Curtis Herms 11             Lincoln Charter        19:14.30     6
7         Cutter Law 9                   Lincoln Charter        19:14.92     7
8         Patrick Rice 9                  Lincoln Charter        19:18.46     8
9         Jalen Ward 11                 Lincoln Charter        19:35.41     9
13       Jonas Guffey 10              Lincoln Charter        20:15.25 --
16       Thomas Cruz 10              Lincoln Charter       21:21.95 --
22       Jackson Law 12               Lincoln Charter       22:08.50 --
24       Mitchell Swicegood 9    Lincoln Charter        22:34.52 --
25       Ryan Wiltshire 9             Lincoln Charter         22:36.19 --
26       David Balok 12                Lincoln Charter         22:49.10 --
27       John Renegar 11             Lincoln Charter         22:57.39 --
28       Travis Mullis 11               Lincoln Charter         23:01.53 --
29       Ben Tibbits 11                 Lincoln Charter         23:03.93 --
32       Joseph Rhodes 11          Lincoln Charter         23:35.12 --
35       Joe Flanagan 10             Lincoln Charter          23:43.73 --
36       George Wilz 10               Lincoln Charter          23:44.70 --
42       David Osborne 10          Lincoln Charter          24:55.01 --
43       Xavier Ward 9                 Lincoln Charter         24:55.74 --
46       Brandon King 11             Lincoln Charter        26:45.43 --
60       David Pearson 9              Lincoln Charter        30:06.97 --
62       Brock Borcich 11             Lincoln Charter        30:54.08 --
63       Edouard Nadra 9             Lincoln Charter        32:05.25 --

TEAM SCORES
PLACE          TEAM                         POINTS     SCORERS                  TIMES
1                   Lincoln Charter        24              2+4+5+6+7 (8+9) 1:09 1-5 Split | 18:59 Avg
2                   Highland Tech           42             1+3+11+13+14 (18+22) 2:54 1-5 Split | 19:46 Avg
3                   Thomas Jefferson     70            10+12+15+16+17 (20+23) 2:04 1-5 Split | 21:01 Avg
4                   Bessemer City         115            19+21+24+25+26 (27) 2:46 1-5 Split | 23:53 Avg