Baseball players from Summerville, Fort Dorchester and Ashley Ridge High School gathered on Friday afternoon to compete to see which senior would walk away as the Home Run Derby winner.
Rising cases of COVID-19 in South Carolina are endangering the high school fall sports season, including football, S.C. High School League commissioner Jerome Singleton said Thursday.
The Summerville Recreation Department is holding its inaugural Home Run Derby for high school seniors Friday at Gahagan Park.
A Richland County judge has ruled in favor of Bishop England High School, Oceanside Collegiate Academy and other private and charter schools in their lawsuit against the S.C. High School League.
West Ashley, Wando and other football teams in Charleston County returned to practice Monday with strong restrictions due to COVID-19.
Rock Hill High School principal Arthur “Ozzie” Ahl says he just wants a level athletic playing field for all schools in South Carolina.
Wando High School athletic director Bob Hayes died on Friday after a long battle with cancer. He was 60.
Charleston County high schools will return to on-campus sports activities on June 22, and the school district is offering free COVID-19 testing for student-athletes and coaches.
A Greenville County judge has ruled that a lawsuit filed against the S.C. High School League by Bishop England and Oceanside Collegiate Academy, among others, can move forward.
The S.C. Independent Schools Athletic Association has pushed back the date for the start of the second phase of its plan for a return to practices and workouts, citing a "significant bump" in the number of reported cases of COVID-19 in the state.
"We're out here, man," she says in a video of a protest march posted on social media. "Just trying to stay safe, and wishing for the best for my people."
Berkeley County high school athletes return to sports workouts under coronavirus guidelines.
Porter-Gaud's Elysse Pardus and Summerville’s Brody Hopkins are The Post and Courier's High School Athletes of the Year for 2019-20.
The S.C. High School League's commissioner says he's "confident" that the state's high schools can play some sort of a fall sports season, if coronavirus safety guidelines are followed as athletes and coaches gather for summer workouts in the coming weeks.
AAU Basketball has been all but canceled this summer due to the coronavirus. Several Lowcountry players were hoping to use the summer circuit to garner attention and earn college scholarships.
MOUNT PLEASANT — At one end of the football stadium at Wando High School, a huge American flag flew proudly against a darkening sky on Friday afternoon.
The S.C. High School League issued its return-to-play guidelines for high school sports on Thursday, but left up to school districts the question of when teams can begin summer workouts.
A letter from the department's civil rights office, a copy of which was obtained Thursday by The Associated Press, came in response to a complaint filed last year by several female track athletes who argued that two transgender female runners had an unfair physical advantage.
The S.C. High School League is asking for dismissal of a lawsuit filed earlier this month by Charleston-area schools Bishop England High School and Oceanside Collegiate Academy, among others.
The S.C. Independent Schools Association sent an email to member schools with guidelines for a return to sports practices amid the coronavirus pandemic for the state's private schools.
Andrew Glover, a member of the 2014 Wando basketball championship team, will be the head hoops coach at Lucy Beckham.
High school sports in South Carolina have been shut down since mid-March due to the coronavirus pandemic, and the NFHS guidelines are intended as a road map of sorts as high school sports begin to open back up this summer and fall.
Bishop England High School and Oceanside Collegiate Academy are among a group of private and charter schools suing the S.C. High School League over recent rules changes passed by the league.
Anthony Weston, an associate coach for the Pinewood Prep girls basketball team, will now serve as head coach.
Coy Simon, a star tennis player at Philips Simmons High School, is ready for the next chapter of his life at Tennessee.
Last month, a parade of cars passed by the home of Wando High School athletic director Bob Hayes, celebrating his 60th birthday and wishing him well in his fight against cancer. On Monday, the Charleston County School Board took further action to honor Hayes, voting to name the field at District 2 football stadium at Wando after Hayes.
Nate Green, an assistant football coach at Oceanside Collegiate Academy, died Monday after battling cancer.
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Former Oceanside Collegiate pitcher Nick Hyde was off to a hot start as a freshman at Western Carolina. COVID-19 halted his season, but he still has four years of eligibility.
Former Wando star Harrison Smith was hoping his senior season at High Point would be dominant enough to get him drafted by a Major League Baseball team, but the coronavirus derailed that plan.
Lacrosse teams at Bishop England and Oceanside were looking to keep their state title runs going, but were derailed by the cancellation of spring sports announced on Wednesday.
Any hope for some semblance of a high school spring sports season was quashed Wednesday when the executive committee of the S.C. High School League voted 15-0 to cancel the remainder of the spring season.
High school soccer teams in Charleston are hoping for a chance to get back on the field after the season was halted because of the coronavirus.
Charleston broadcasters Darren Goldwater and Jamie Bradford are up and running with a new digital sports talk show in the middle of the cononavirus shutdown of the sports world. Here's why they think the time is right.
Bishop England graduate Blake Jeresaty, an All-American lineman at Wofford, is headed to Illinois of the Big Ten.
Rocco Adrian was named the interim football at Wando High School and Greg Wright was named the head coach at Timberland High School.
Former St. John's High School star Edmond Robinson has played with three NFL teams, and in the AAF and XFL. Now, he's ready for what might be his last NFL chance with the Atlanta Falcons.
Newly hired football coaches at Lowcountry high schools can't physically meet or work out with players, so they're resorting to video and other forms of communication.
Former Summerville head coach Joe Call was named head coach at Oceanside Collegiate Academy on Monday.
North Charleston boys senior guard Darjawuan “Doggie” Brown and Porter-Gaud girls senior guard Elise Pearson are The Post and Courier's high school basketball players of the year.
Fort Dorchester's Chandler Amaker closed out a 49-1 season by winning the gold medal in the 145-pound division of the South Carolina High School League wrestling state championships.
The S.C. High School League's executive committee met Thursday to discuss the possibility of playing again this season with all sports currently on hold because of the coronavirus.
Former Summerville High School quarterback Johnathan Bennett decided to remain in the Lowcountry when Liberty University reopened last week. Bennett is a redshirt freshman with the Flames.
Former Charleston Southern player Mike Howard has been named the new head football coach at St. John's High School
The green grass of baseball and lacrosse fields across South Carolina sit emptier than its beaches and restaurants. For fans, that hurts. For athletes, it downright stings. And none more so than high school and college seniors who'd barely started their spring sports seasons.
Citadel graduate Brian Smith, head football coach at C.E. Murray High School, is helping deliver meals to students during the coronavirus shutdown of state schools.
The coronavirus outbreak has placed the sports world, professional and amateur, on hold for the foreseeable future.
Former Porter-Gaud basketball star Aaron Nesmith will turn pro and enter the 2020 NBA draft after two seasons at Vanderbilt, he announced Thursday.
Following the lead of South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, the S.C. High School League has extended its suspension of spring sports for member schools until the end of April.
Lowcountry baseball teams, including Bishop England and Oceanside Collegiate, are hoping to get back on the field after the coronavirus pandemic.
Extra time on your hands with not much sports to watch during the coronavirus pandemic? There are volunteer opportunities for people who want to help in-person or otherwise.
Extra time on your hands with not much sports to watch during the coronavirus pandemic? There are volunteer opportunities for people who want to help in-person or otherwise.
Donna Claire Still plays softball at Stratford and her father Joey Still is an assistant football coach at Fort Dorchester.