High Country Sports

08/18/2025

SNAPSHOTS: High School Football Jamboree
https://highcountrysports.net/snapshots-watauga-high-school-football-jamboree/
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By David Rogers. BOONE, N.C. — It was a beautiful, if warm evening of football on Aug. 15, with Watauga hosting North Surry, Maiden and South Point. Here is a […]

08/17/2025

Clash of the Classes was biggest ever
https://highcountrysports.net/clash-of-the-classes-kicks-off-high-country-xc-season/
Watauga High School Pioneer Booster Club
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By David Rogers. BOONE, N.C. — With 36 schools and 890 student athletes converging on the Watauga High School cross country course, you not only have to expect a lot […]

08/14/2025

Playing 'together,' Watauga Volleyball sweeps West Wilkes
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08/14/2025

Townsend, Bostram lead Watauga harriers in dominating NWC 'Triple Threat' XC event
https://highcountrysports.net/townsend-bostrom-lead-pioneer-harriers-to-dominant-finishes-at-triple-threat-meet/
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By David Rogers. TAYLORSVILLE, N.C. — It is just the beginning of the 2025 high school cross country season in the High Country but the Watauga Pioneers seem to have […]

08/14/2025

Reclaiming History: High Country's Ron Cutlip-led team awarded design contract for Asheville MUNI restoration
https://highcountrysports.net/reclaiming-history-high-countrys-ron-cutlip-led-team-awarded-design-contract-for-asheville-muni-golf-course-restoration/
Visit Asheville
Asheville Citizen Times
Blowing Rock Chamber of Commerce
Boone Area Chamber of Commerce
The Charlotte Observer

By David Rogers. GREENSBORO, N.C. — For all intents and purposes, Hurricane Helene took a “wrecking ball” to the front nine holes of the Asheville Municipal Golf Course last September. […]

08/14/2025

SNAPSHOTS: Watauga Football vs. East Surry scrimmage, Aug. 8
https://highcountrysports.net/snapshots-watauga-football-vs-east-surry-in-aug-8-scrimmage/
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By David Rogers. BOONE, N.C. — It was only an early, preseason scrimmage but the Watauga and East Surry high school teams and their fans got a late summer taste […]

08/02/2025

SNAPSHOTS: Watauga Football opens fall season training
https://highcountrysports.net/snapshots-watauga-football-opens-fall-season-training/
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GoBlueRidge.net

By David Rogers. BOONE, N.C. — It was hot, hot, hot for a mid-morning summer day in the High Country — but the Watauga High School football team’s players and […]

08/01/2025

Getting down to business
https://highcountrysports.net/all-business-welcome-to-the-gridiron-marketplace/
App State Athletics
Appalachian State Mountaineer Football Fans
Sun Belt Conference
Watauga Democrat
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By David Rogers. BOONE, N.C. — ‘Tis the season of annual optimism on every FBS-level campus in College Football Land. After an offseason of transfer portal openings and freshman recruiting […]

07/23/2025

Keeping it in family, Colleys win again at 'Crazy 8s'
https://highcountrysports.net/keeping-it-in-the-family-colleys-win-again-in-crazy-8s/
ZAP Endurance
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On

By David Rogers. KINGSPORT, Tenn. — Make it two weeks in a row that husband and wife Andrew and Tristin Colley swept the men’s and women’ divisions of the 35th […]

07/23/2025

End of an era for Watauga football -- but future is still 'bright'
https://highcountrysports.net/end-of-an-era-for-watauga-football/
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By David Rogers. BOONE, N.C. — For most of the last 46 years, there has a Breitenstein on the Watauga High School football team’s sideline as an assistant coach and, […]

06/30/2025

No. 2 tries harder!
https://highcountrysports.net/no-2-tries-harder-carolina-select-15u-black-is-runner-up-aau-nationals/
Watauga High School Pioneer Booster Club
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Watauga Democrat
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By David Rogers. ORLANDO, Fla. — Summer is the season for “travel ball” for the athletically gifted and serious young men and women throughout the nation. That includes volleyball — […]

06/27/2025

Young powers Bigfoots to 5-4 win over HiToms
https://highcountrysports.net/young-powers-bigfoots-to-early-lead-en-route-to-5-4-win-over-hitoms/
Boone Bigfoots
Coastal Plain League
App State Athletics

By David Rogers. BOONE, N.C. — Starting off on the right foot — so to speak — the Boone Bigfoots exploded for three runs in the bottom of the first […]