Blue Devils football players reach out to the community

And yet, something about the sport itself gripped Shelitha and she would continue to wrestle at home with her brothers and attend camps. By the time she returned to the sport, boys still presented the competition but she was more prepared. Thus, when it came to wrestling girls Collins felt even more power-

It wasn’t easy, as Shellitha came a long way from those second-grade whuppins she used to take.

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After retiring from competition for four years, she returned to the fray in seventh grade “because I didn’t have anything to do in the winter. I knew I couldn’t play basketball. I’m

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By Rich Fisher

When Ross Maddalon interviewed for the job as Ewing High football coach, he stressed that, if hired, one of his goals was to do community outreach programs with his team.

When someone you care about is sick, you’ll do whatever it takes to make sure they get the best care. And so do we.

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Because you’d go to the ends of the earth for the people you care about. And we do too.

And how did the players feel about that?

Pretty darn good, in fact.

One of Maddalon’s first projects was to participate in the Read Across America program, where members of his team would read from books to elementary school students from kindergarten through 2nd grade.

“Once coach Maddalon approached us with the question of whether we wanted to read to the elementary school, with no hesitation we all signed up for the task,”

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