Triangle Wrestlers in the State Championships

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North Carolina High School Wrestling Championships

2/24/10 Teen News: (∆)Local and National

(∆)NCSSM senior gets circus audition – Andrew Hicks said he is willing to put his free ride to UNC on hold if he is offered an opportunity to join Ringling Brothers after a Thursday try-out.  “Yes sir, I’d certainly love to run away with the circus,” he said.”Ringling Brothers clowns are the best in the world. And so to be able to perform alongside the greatest is just a dream come true for any clown.” (MyNC)

(∆)Blind wrestler honored at Apex High – Mauled by a tiger at age three, Tyler Forsythe is determined to live a normal teenage life, including 80 career wins in four years of high school wrestling.  “Other blind people I know lean on people,” Tyler says. “I want to be independent.”(N&O)

(∆)Interview with teen game innovator - Athens Drive freshman Tommy Evanoff is responsible for the idea to add a three point shooting matt to Sportcraft’s home basketball game. Q: How did you pitch your idea to the company? I e-mailed them in September (2008). The product manager responded pretty quickly. He said it sounded good, and wanted me to sign a nondisclosure agreement. I signed it and returned it to him. He wanted me to describe the game to him. (Cary News)

(∆) Student refused to do devil assignment – Tieanna Trough, an A-B honor roll student at Gray’s Creek High School, refused to write a creative story about making a deal with the devil in relation to Washington Irving’s short story “The Devil and Tom Walker. ” “We can’t allow God into the classrooms, but yet they are going to allow the Devil in the classroom, that’s the way I felt,” Trough’s mother Monice McLean said. “They were told if they didn’t do it they would get a zero.” (WTVD)

Orange H.S. Wrestling v. Concord Robinson

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To read an article about the event, please visit The Herald-Sun.  To see more OHS wrestling photos, please visit their website.

Orange High School Wrestling Team

2/15/10 Teen News: Local and National

Teen skaters ready for 2014 Olympics – 15-year-old Miles Addison of Enloe High School, who has been skating since he was 3, wakes up everyday at 4:45 a.m. to train with his partner Kay Bergdolt of Cary Academy for 90 minutes before school and two hours after school.  The pair won bronze in this year’s Junior National Championships. “You always have bad days and it’s always hard to get back up and fight through those. But whenever you have a good day and you land a new jump, it’s so exciting and you just want to do it again and again,” said Kay. (VIDEO by MYNC.com)

Cary finishes 2nd in wrestling championships - 30-0 Cary Imps, who had won the three previous 4-A state championship fell 38-14 in the state finals to Parkland High, who had won the three previous 3-A state championships before moving up a division this year.  “Any time you beat a team with 20 state championships, you’ve done something pretty great,” Parkland coach Ronnie Sigmon, still dripping from the Gatorade shower his team had just given him, said. “And this victory demonstrates that 3A wrestling in this state is just as good as 4A.”  (SWWake News)

Parents sue over suspended children - Two Beaufort County families are suing the school system after the school suspended their children for fighting but did not offer educational options during the long-term suspension. “It affected the family drastically,” Harvey-Barrow said. “It also threw her behind. She was working toward going to a university. By her missing the whole semester, her GPA fell. She had to struggle with that.” (N&O)

Who is the creator of ChatRoulette? - A 17-year-old high school student from Russia. I created this project for fun. Initially, I had no business goals with it. I created this project recently. I was and still am a teenager myself, that is why I had a certain feeling of what other teenagers would want to see on the Internet. I myself enjoyed talking to friends with Skype using a microphone and webcam. But we got tired of talking to each other eventually. So I decided to create a little site for me and my friends where we could connect randomly with other people. (NYT)

Southern Durham High School Wrestling (photos)

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To read about the tremendous turnaround of the Southern Durham High School wrestling team, please read this News&Observer article.

Southern Durham High School Wrestling team: Willie Hayes, Devonta Spears, Dashaum Caviness, Brandon McCrimmon, Rodnie Howard, Maurice Hackney, Shawn Helms, Langston Hines, Quinzel Kimble, Trelvon Thacker, William Roberts, Josh Cutler, Lawrence Wilson, Tyshaun Johnson, London Dixon, Terron Farrington, Bruce Neal