Hoggard A.D. Sheila Boles has retired, but won’t be gone and certainly never forgotten.  “I will definitely be at games.  It will be nice to be able to come back as a fan… no responsibilities, just a real fan.”
  But she has always been a fan, a fan of young people and athletics.  Now after [...]

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Good choice, Hoggard.  Today, recent Hoggard grad and football star Ian Shankland was presented with the CFSR Reader’s Choice Award for High School Athlete of the Year at Francesco’s Cafe.
About ten minutes before we were set to begin, in came several of Ian’s coaches.  Scott Braswell saw Ian on the cover of this week’s Cape [...]

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After one week, the Hoggard football team is out in front in the CFSR Readers’ Choice for Team of the Year.  The state champs captured the attention of the Port City last fall as they won the school’s first football title.  Voting for the Readers’ Choice Awards will be open until June 17, but don’t [...]

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Everybody’s an expert - here’s you chance to put in your two cents for free.  While each team below should be commended for their excellence on the field, court, mat, or whatever, we wanted to know from our readers, who stands above the rest and is deserving of the being named CFSR’s Team of the [...]

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Of course he’s smiling, he won the state championship and was named winner of the first ever CFSR Readers’ Choice Award for High School Athlete-of the-Year. 
Ian was the defensive MVP for the state championship game and a integral part of the Vikings’ stingy defense throughout the season.  In the spring, he led the lacrosse team [...]

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Everybody’s an expert - here’s you chance to put in your two cents for free.  While each athlete below should be commended for their excellence on the field, we wanted to know from our readers, who stands above the rest and is deserving of the being named Wilmington’s High School Athlete of the Year?  You [...]

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Reader’s Choice Awards - High School Athlete of the Year
When it comes to sports, everyone thinks their an expert.  Here’s you chance to put in your two cents for free.  While everyone below should be commended for their excellence on the field, who stands above the rest and is deserving of the being named Wilmington’s High School [...]

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Signing day is when college football 

fans across the country find out who the coaches have brought in for next year.  But for the players, signing day is when dreams are fulfilled and the pressure is finally off.  Well until the first day of practice that is. 
   The atmosphere in the Hoggard Field House was relaxed; [...]

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Getting in the car on Saturday morning, I noticed I was kind of excited. While I don’t have a fish in the school, so to speak, or any personal ties to the Hoggard football team, and wasn’t looking forward to eight hours of driving, I can’t deny that I felt like it was a [...]

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The Hoggard Vikings made the four hour trip westward on I-40 for Saturday’s North Carolina 4A State Championship game and came back with the hardware they had set out to win months earlier. Coach Braswell would comment after the game, ” We set a goal, and these guys made it happen.”The Vikes’ defense was [...]

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