Edgewood renames field house after longtime coach

Caleb Turrentine / The Herald Michael Norris addresses the crowd from a podium after Edgewood unveiled the new name on the side of the field house.

After spending the last 42 years at Edgewood, Michael Norris does not find many things around the school to surprise him. But when he drove up to the team’s field house Thursday evening, there was a large group of Wildcat players, faculty and fans standing in the parking lot waiting for Norris to arrive.

“I thought it was just something I didn’t know about,” Norris said. “I thought we were having some kind of meeting or something that didn’t pertain to me. I just happened to drive back up here so I was very surprised by all of it.”

Caleb Turrentine is a sports writer for Tallapoosa Publishers Inc.

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