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Asheville's Butler, White aim high as football season starts
ASHEVILLE Moments before Asheville High's first football practice of the year, the words of coach Danny Wilkins drifted through the doors of the Cougars' locker room Monday afternoon: "We can't live off the reputation of last year."
-Citizen Times
Black Hawks ready to roll
WEAVERVILLE Most of North Buncombe's football players were doubled over in pain and gasping for oxygen as their season's first official practice ended Monday morning.
-Citizen Times
Atkins, Reagan hold their first football practices
They came from middle schools, and they came from other high schools in Forsyth County.
-The Winston-Salem Journal
Donnalley has support from Charlotte Christian
Charlotte Christian School officials stood firmly behind Kevin Donnalley on Monday as he opened his first season as Knights football coach.
-The Charlotte Observer
Charlotte Catholic | Observations
• During Charlotte Catholic's first day of practice, with the day already cooling down from mild temperatures, coach Jim Oddo walked over to the sideline and greeted me with his big smile. I asked him about the football season and he said, still smiling, "It's too early to tell, but we're still undefeated."
-The Charlotte Observer
Porter Ridge | Observations
INDIAN TRAIL - At Porter Ridge, a new school in Union County, players practice on a muddy, makeshift field 30 yards away from a large swingset with yellow plastic sliding boards.
-The Charlotte Observer
Briggs gives presence of a proven winner
GASTONIA - The Ashbrook High football team is 10 minutes into its first practice, but coach Mike Briggs isn't on the field.
-The Charlotte Observer
High school players, coaches get to work 'for real'
Voluntary summer workouts, passing leagues and mini-camps can take some of the workload out of the first day of football practice, but they can't replace its edge.
-The Herald Sun
Pigskin Kick Off
The old saying is the early bird gets the worm. So if worms are footballs then the New Bern Bears got a jump on most of its competition Monday as the team hit the fields running at 8 a.m. on the first official day of practice for high schools in North Carolina.
-The New Bern Sun Journal
Prep football practice starts
Southwest coaches are probably hoping it's an omen of good things to come. Northside coaches are likely thinking it can only get better from here.
-The Jacksonville Daily
Athens ready to roar
RALEIGH -- Football players at Athens Drive High School will wear new decals on their orange helmets this season. Instead of "JAGS" printed in bold script, the school mascot "Jaguars" will be spelled in blue cursive letters.
-The News&Observer
It's way too early to judge
The objective in college football recruiting is not to assemble prospects as quickly as possible, but rather to assemble the best prospects possible.
-The News&Observer
High School teams hard at work on the practice field
A 300-pound teenager with the nickname “Tiny” shuffled his feet quickly through a series of obstacles before sprinting over to a deliver a finishing blow to a green tackling dummy a few feet away.
-The Shelby Star
Prep Basketball
Right way the Moon way at Eastern Alamance
MEBANE -- With its computer equipment, bright paint, shiny pictures of former players and spotless floor, the Eastern Alamance basketball office looks more ACC than it does Mid-State 3-A.
_The Herald Sun
Glenn's Wallace considering LeBron James' alma mater
Eric Wallace has visited LeBron James' alma mater, worked out with the NBA star and obtained an application for the high school in Akron, Ohio.
-The Greensboro News-Record
Ragsdale gets new boys basketball coach
Ragsdale tapped a coach from a Raleigh private school to lead its boys basketball program, the school announced Thursday.
-The Greensboro News-Record