Spring Sports Halftime Report

Sports Editor Wyatt Meyer checks in with every CCHS spring sport.

Last season’s record: (5-8)

What’s new: “Obviously, there are people that are pretty new to tennis and those people need to work on core positioning, serving form and everything like that.”

– CCHS boys varsity tennis player Patrick Allen, a junior Outlook: I think we haven’t really solidified lineups yet. I still feel like some people aren’t playing the right positions for them and some people still need some more experience, but I think (the season is) good so far.”

– CCHS boys varsity tennis player Patrick Allen, a junior

Last season’s record: N/A

What’s new: “One of the things we talked about as a staff is that we always want to get more of our student body involved because, to us, track and field is a lifelong sport.”

– CCHS head varsity track and field coach Justin Jones Outlook: “We run a lot, so sometimes some people will quit mid-workout and stuff. We definitely need to work on that. I try to push everybody to keep going.”

– CCHS boys varsity track athlete Shavique Bascus, a senior

Last season’s record: (16-4-0)

What’s new: “A new player to the varsity starting lineup (who has) been very good for us is Auggie Coons, he’s a junior. He’s started every game so far and been a key piece for us.”

– CCHS head varsity soccer coach Chris Aiken

Outlook: “I expect there to be pretty hard games and we gotta just battle through. We just gotta really prepare ourselves for what’s to come.”

– CCHS boys varsity soccer player Jackson Ogilvie, a senior

Last season’s record: N/A

What’s new: “I’ve been going to the driving range, practicing my short game and actually playing some golf to get better.”

– CCHS varsity golfer Tommy Hogan, a senior

Outlook: “I think because it’s such a small group of people, it’ll all just be like a couple of friends going out and playing golf. At least from what I see and hear, it’s not too serious, it’s just to have fun.”

– CCHS varsity golfer Tommy Hogan, a senior

Photos by Aza Khan, Lucas Donnelly and Isabelle Duncan

Story and layout by Wyatt Meyer

Last season’s record: (8-5)

What’s new: “It’s mostly underclassmen on the team, which I think is interesting, but it’ll definitely be good for the future because they’ll have a lot more experience and they’ll be able to help other people develop.”

– CCHS girls varsity tennis player Willa Frierson, a junior Outlook: “In a way, we’re all on a clean slate, so we’re able to just really have that chemistry (with teammates) without it being something that was already there.”

– CCHS girls varsity tennis player Willa Frierson, a junior

Last season’s record: (8-8-1)

What’s new: “(We want) to try to have more consistent play out of the team. It’s hard because I wasn’t here last season, but it felt like the team went through some ups and downs with injuries and (things like that).”

– CCHS head girls varsity soccer coach Jacob Baxley

Outlook: “We definitely lost a lot of big leaders last year, we had a lot of seniors, but we’re definitely trying to (work on that).”

– CCHS girls varsity soccer player Evin Carvell, a junior

Last season’s record: (7-18)

What’s new: “I think the chemistry we have (makes us special). This year, we have a will to really do some damage and be a better team than we were last year.”

– CCHS varsity baseball player Benjamin Campbell, a senior Outlook: “We’ve been working a lot harder, so I’m really hoping that it’s gonna be evident that all of our work has been paying off. I want to hopefully have a winning season, make the playoffs and ultimately just be a good team.”

Varsity Baseball

Last season’s record: N/A

What’s new: “I keep on pushing (other athletes) because sometimes it can be hard at practice and some of them do want to quit, but that’s not the mindset we’re going for this year.”

– CCHS girls varsity track athlete Ty’asia Brown, a sophomore

Outlook: “Coming from state last year, school was almost over and I was ready for the summertime, (but) then school came back around and I was ready for track to start.”

– CCHS girls varsity track athlete Xzaria Hanks, a sophomore

– CCHS varsity baseball player Tristan Lowery, a senior