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Fan Vote: Gadsden Times area Baseball Player of the Year with 43 nominees
The Alabama high school baseball season is over and with that its time to vote for who was the best of the best. Through noon June 3, you can vote for your choice for the fan vote baseball player of the year. There are 43 nominations. coming from all area nominations and other sources. They represent 15 schools including eight of the 10 Etowah County programs.
What are the 7 most memorable moments from the 2023-24 Gadsden area high school sports season
There were plenty of memorable moments from the 2023-24 Gadsden area high school season but a few will standout as the year has wrapped. Every team set out to bring home state titles and to bring a Blue Map Trophy back to leave their legacy but only a few did. In Etowah County, Southside girls bowling and Westbrook Christian boys golf were the only two to win. Elsewhere in the area Fyffe football, Spring Garden volleyball and girls basketball and Plainview volleyball brought home trophies.
Westbrook Christian to add softball in 2025, hires two-time state champ Chris Williams
Westbrook Christian School will sponsor softball starting in 2025, marking a return for the program. Last week the school announced that they were bringing back the program for the first time since 2006 and hired former Springville head coach Chris Williams. He helped lead that program to the 2015 and 2016 Class 5A state titles. Williams is a 21-year coaching veteran and was most recently at Crossville during the 2024 season.
‘I’ve never let anything hold me back’: Bronco blade runner Daniel Figueroa talks athletic career
HOLLY POND, Ala. — Holly Pond student Daniel Figueroa put together another great season on the track and on the hardwood this year. Daniel is known around campus for his positive attitude and athletic ability but one attribute he didn’t get to choose is that he is a T44 amputee. However, the Bronco sophomore will tell you that challenge has helped mold him into who he is today as much as anything else. “At the age of two, I was run over by a lawnmower which led to the amputation of my right leg,” Figueroa said. “At the age of four,...
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