When Kathleen Hersey’s hand touched the wall in Omaha, Nebraska, for the third and final time, she felt more than just the cold, wet cement that awaited her the previous two. She felt the warm fulfillment of a lifelong dream. She felt what it was like to be an Olympian.

Former Centennial point guard Delonte Doles has accepted a scholarship offer from Coker College in Hartsfield, S.C.

As the 2008 high school football season continually draws nearer, fans of the North Fulton programs are undoubtedly starting to pay attention to something that was announced last season; realignment. Every three years, the Georgia High School Association (GHSA) picks up their dry erase markers and thumb tacks and divides the state into what they believe to be geographically intelligent regions.

There’s a relatively new summer phenomenon in high school sports that seems to be creating more and more attention and controversy with each passing year. High-profile basketball players are switching schools, creating pools of talent at a select few programs and widening the gap between the haves and the have-nots.

Here’s a tale about the family Cummings. It’s your typical “high school student takes a 45-minute bus ride to school every day, lies to his parents about playing football and then becomes one of the most sought-after defensive ends in the country” kind of yarn. It centers around an 18-year-old young man, the youngest of three Cummings boys who has quite suddenly become the latest crush of the SEC recruiting bigwigs as a member of the Centennial Knights.

For an aspiring basketball star, it doesn’t get much better than garnering an invitation to the NBA Player’s Association (NBPA) 13th annual Top 100 camp. The camp, held last week in Charlottesville, Va., gathered together the 100 best high school players in the country with two goals in mind: to make the best players better and more importantly, to educate the kids about making good life decisions off the court...

You would expect an athletic director at a fledgling private school to do whatever it takes to ensure the success of his program. So it’s no surprise to see Blessed Trinity’s Ricky Turner wearing a ridiculous-looking chef’s hat and flipping burgers on the grill outside the school for a year-end event; or to see him scooping French fries at the concession stand at a basketball game; or pushing a broom around the gym floor or loading Powerade into a truck by the case-full to take to a summer camp.

There aren’t too many people in North Fulton who can make the claim that they’re the best in the country at something. However, one Roswell resident can certainly make that boast, and nobody can argue with her. Her name: Angela Simon. Why can Simon boast? Because according to the United States Tennis Association (USTA), the 36-year-old mother and wife is the number one female tennis player in the country over the age of 35.

I’m going to tell you something you may not be ready to hear. It could be traumatizing and rattle the very fiber of your being. You ready?

Chase Davidson spent the better part of the last week in May jetting around the country showing off his powerful left-handed swing to any Major League scouts willing to watch. The final stop for that magical mystery tour was revealed last Thursday when the name “Charles Davidson” came scrolling off the ticker in the draft’s third round.