Debates over whether or not cheerleading should be considered a sport are pervasive, and have been for years. At Edgewood Academy, however, there’s no question. Cheerleaders attend events for almost every sport throughout the season, especially football and basketball. During the summer, che…
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Edgewood Academy will have a new face in its athletic department come next season. The school announced the hiring of former Lowndes Academy baseball coach Colton Mathis to head up its softball program.Â
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Edgewood Academy’s baseball team has been operating under a new motto this season: life is bigger than baseball. It means that everything the team does is for a higher purpose, it means becoming great men, great fathers and great husbands.Â
Edgewood Academy’s football team suffered a tumultuous season last year, ending in a less-than-ideal result: a first-round exit from the playoffs. This season, the Wildcats will have new faces on the sidelines, including their new head coach,…
Edgewood Academy’s baseball team posted one of its best seasons in years, reaching the AISA Class A State Championship. Although it fell short of bringing home a state championship, first-year coach Justin Chandler was extremely impressed with the heart and fight his team showed. Three playe…
For the first time since 2019, Holtville’s softball team is going back to the state tournament in Oxford.Â
Adversity, high stakes and impossible odds are as much a part of life as they are a part of high school sports. That’s why it hurts so much when things don’t go your way.
Over the course of the last five seasons, Edgewood Academy’s Brock Whitt has carved his name into the school’s history books. Whitt has been a three-sport varsity athlete since his eighth grade year. Now a senior, Whitt has led the Wildcats to the state championship series.Â
In big moments, the best teams deliver.Â
After Edgewood Academy’s baseball team clinched the top seed in AISA Class A Area 2, its players were battling minor injuries, worn out from a rigorous season. Even more dangerous, the Wildcats faced a two-week break before the start of their…
In all the chaos of the spring, track and field is one of those sports that tends to fly under the radar. Edgewood Academy’s track and field team produced two state champions this season at the AISA State Meet, senior Barrett Brown for discus…
Everything good comes to an end at some point – at times for the best, at times for the worst. Edgewood Academy baseball coach Justin Chandler chooses to look on the bright side, as his seniors celebrate one of the last times they ever don th…
Every team has a specific game marked on its calendar at the start of the season, whether it be a rivalry game, a tough loss from the previous season that needs to be avenged or an area game that could make or break a team’s playoffs ambitions.Â
The Edgewood Academy Wildcats hosted a handful of AISA competitions on Saturday in the annual baseball and softball varsity tournaments. The Wildcats baseball team split wins on Friday, losing to Chambers Academy, 10-8, and beating Heritage C…
The Edgewood Wildcats are blazing a trail through AISA Class A baseball, and they’re on track to compete for a state title, bringing it back to Elmore for the first time since 2016.
The Edgewood Academy Wildcats split wins with Hooper Academy on Tuesday night in a double-header to extend their record to 9-5 on the season. The first game saw the Wildcats struggle in the pitcher’s circle and succumb to Hooper’s power hitti…
The Edgewood Academy Wildcats came into the baseball season with high expectations under coach Justin Chandler. The Wildcats have executed on that front, winning five consecutive games through the first three weeks of the season.Â
From the very start of the basketball season, the goal has been crystal clear for the Edgewood Academy Wildcats: get back to the AISA Class A state title and bring the championship back to Elmore, proving that the Wildcats are the same domina…
