Crestwood High School Knights
Sumter School District football head coaches Mark Barnes of Sumter, first photo, Roosevelt Nelson of Crestwood, second photo, and Larry Cornelius of Lakewood, third photo, are hoping to have a start date for football workouts soon.
Sumter School District football head coaches hoping to get start date soon
Crestwood defensive line coach Lance Newman, right, stands with, from left to right, coach Marcus Brisbone, and former Crestwood players Sherrick Ervin and Cam Blanding following a Touchstone Energy Bowl North-South All-Star Game practice. Newman uses his background in the military and as a mental health professional to help improve the lives of students at Crestwood.
Crestwood's Newman uses military and crisis background to help mold Knights
Lee Central High School will meet next week to discuss when its football team can return to action after sports were put on hold by the coronavirus pandemic.
Lee Central meeting next week to discuss athletes' return
The Sumter School District is still deciding when they will allow its high schools to resume sports activities, including football with Sumter quarterback Hayden Vasquez (15), after the South Carolina High School League announced that each school district will be able to decide when athletics resume.
Sumter School District yet to decide when student-athletes can begin workouts
Lakewood's Kylie Edwards, above, Sumter's Landon Jones and Crestwood's Na'Kiya Tye were among the 73 seniors that submitted their stories about losing their senior seasons.
Thanks to the 'lost spring seniors'
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McKenzie Casselman

The lost spring seniors: COVID-19's impact on Sumter, Clarendon, Lee high school athletes, Part VI

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Geryreon Peay

The lost spring seniors: COVID-19's impact on Sumter, Clarendon, Lee high school athletes, Part V

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Crestwood's Ashanti Washington (3) signed to play basketball with Southwest Virginia Community College this week.

Crestwood's Washington signs to play basketball with Southwest Virginia

Crestwood High School's Ashanti Washington had to wait a little longer than she hoped due to the coronavirus, but she was finally able to find her next basketball stop this week, as she signed to play at Southwest Virginia Community College. …

Dyson Roberts

The lost spring seniors: COVID-19's impact on Sumter, Clarendon, Lee high school athletes, Part IV

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Crestwood's Jamiya Lindsay, front, signed with the track and field program at Wingate this week.

Crestwood's Lindsay signs to run track at Wingate

This has been a difficult spring for seniors who are losing their final seasons of high school sports because of the coronavirus pandemic. For many of those seniors it would be their last chance to play the sports they love. Crestwood track and …

East Clarendon's Alicia Wilson, left, and Chris Barringer receive their plaques from the school's sports banquet, which coaches took on the road to each of the students' houses on Thursday night and throughout the day on Friday.

East Clarendon takes athletic banquet on the road

East Clarendon High School athletic director Scott Cook and the Wolverine coaches were disappointed the school located in Turbeville couldn't have a proper athletic banquet this spring to celebrate their student-athletes after the school year was …

Dejuan Felder

The lost spring seniors: COVID-19's impact on Sumter, Clarendon, Lee high school athletes, Part XIV

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East Clarendon running back Marques Webb (26) and the rest of his Wolverine teammates will be playing in Region IV-1A this season after spending the last two years at the 2A level.

East Clarendon happy to be back in 1A

Up until two years ago, East Clarendon High School had always competed in the 1A classification in athletics from the time it was put in place. Then ECHS got bumped up to 2A. That was just for a short stay though. In the recent South Carolina …

Marquis Pearson, center, signed to play basketball and baseball at Morris College on Monday.

East Clarendon duo signs with Morris College

East Clarendon High School seniors Marquis Pearson and Jaquil Wilson signed with Morris College on Monday. Both players will play basketball at Morris, while Pearson will take on two sports by joining the baseball team. Both seniors were thrilled to …

Crestwood basketball players CeCe Wells, left, and Dynasia Jackson signed to play at Columbia College.

Crestwood duo of Wells and Jackson sign to play basketball with Columbia College

Seniors CeCe Wells and Dynasia Jackson brought an instant spark to the Crestwood High School girls basketball team when they transferred from Sumter High for the 2019-20 school year. That spark helped carry the Lady Knights to the 4A Lower State …

Crestwood's Parris Lowery (55) rushes the passer against Sumter. Lowery has received four college offers in the last two weeks, as his recruitment picks up during the coronavirus pandemic.

Crestwood's Lowery enjoying the recruiting process despite pandemic

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Crestwood's Jaice Calderon (28) and the Knights will have some big changes this fall, as they move from Class 4A to 3A, joining Region VI along with Lakewood.

Crestwood athletics undergoes major changes with realignment

The Crestwood High School athletic program undertook a lot of changes in the South Carolina High School League's recent realignment for the 2020-21 and '21-22 school years. Crestwood will be in a new classification, playing schools in a different …

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