Even as Kevin Coffey was making a name for himself as an athlete par excellence at Benedictine High School in Cleveland, friends who observed the multi-sport star in action told him that one day he would make a very good coach.
In his first college golf tournament, Jack Barnes shot a 67, followed it the next day with a 74 for a 36-hole total of 141, good for second place in the Kinder-Williams Invitational in Harrisonburg.
Back in the fall of 2013, Diamond Welton-Boxley was a high school sophomore, relatively new to the sport of volleyball but already drawing considerable interest from Division I college programs.
It was a chance meeting, nothing more, just two guys with an early morning cup of Joe in hand, making small talk at the 7-11 at the corner of Pump Road and Patterson Avenue as the other customers came and went.
When Del Harris assumed the reins of Collegiate’s boys varsity basketball team in the spring of 2016, he considered his move from the college and AAU ranks nothing short of a leap of faith.
It was the winter of 1981-82, and Rives Fleming, then a junior at Collegiate, was serving as a student assistant coach for the boys 9th grade basketball team.
Welcome, friends. Please meet the winter 2024 class of Unsung Seniors, a hardy group of Collegiate athletes who contributed to the culture and success of their respective varsity programs but often did so well under the radar.
In the post-COVID years, Collegiate’s wrestling team has struggled to regain its traction following a season of cardio-vascular workouts but no contact, no mat time, no Middle School feeder program, and no competitions.
When Charlie Blair was 10 years old, his parents sent him to Camp Virginia to listen, observe, learn, and grow from the friendships he’d develop with mentors who, they felt, would change his life in a positive way.
Gilbert Deglau spent the past four falls laboring in football anonymity, which is often the lot in life for those who hold forth in the offensive line.