Franklin County is a county located in the Blue Ridge foothills of the U.S. state of Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 56,159. Its county seat is Rocky Mount.
Macpherson Stadium, located in Browns Summit, North Carolina's Bryan Park, is a USL Premier Development League stadium that seats 7,000 and is the home to PDL club the Carolina Dynamo and the Greensboro College men's soccer team. Prior to the opening of Macpherson Stadium, the team played at UNCG Soccer Stadium. The stadium hosted the soccer events for the 2007 State Games of North Carolina.
Ferrum College is a private college in Ferrum, Virginia. The college itself is on the Virginia Historic Register. Roberts Hall and Beckham Hall are part of the Ferrum College Historic District and listed in the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places.
Jim Britt Grobe is an American football coach and former player who was most recently the defensive coordinator of the San Antonio Commanders of the Alliance of American Football. He was most recently the head football coach at Baylor University. From 2001 to 2013, Grobe served as the head football coach at Wake Forest University. In 2006, he was named ACC Coach of the Year by a unanimous vote and AP Coach of the Year for coaching Wake Forest to an 11–2 regular season and the Atlantic Coast Conference Championship.
Oliver C. Dawson Stadium is a 22,000-seat multi-purpose stadium in Orangeburg, South Carolina. It opened in 1955, with major renovations in 1994. It is home to the South Carolina State Bulldogs college football team and the women's college soccer team.
Rhodes Stadium is an 11,250-seat multi-purpose stadium in Elon, North Carolina. Named for trustee Dusty Rhodes, his wife, Peggy, and their family, the stadium opened in 2001 and is home to the Elon University Phoenix football team. The stadium also hosts soccer games on occasion.
Gibbs Stadium is a 13,000-seat multi-purpose stadium in Spartanburg, South Carolina. It opened in 1996 and is home to the Wofford College Terriers football team. It is also the home to the Spartanburg High School varsity football team. It is home to the 30th largest college football scoreboard in the nation at 1,485 square feet (138.0 m2). It was named for the Gibbs family, long-time donors to Wofford, for their 1 million dollar donation to build it.
Richardson Stadium is a 6,000-seat multi-purpose stadium in Davidson, North Carolina. It is home to the Davidson College Wildcats football, lacrosse, and track and field teams. The stadium incorporates both Stephen B. Smith Field and Irwin Belk Track. It has also hosted the NCAA Men's Soccer Championship on three occasions from 1992 to 1994. Every autumn the stadium acts as the start and finish of the Davidson freshman Cake Race, where incoming students run a course around the college in competition for cakes baked by inhabitants of the local community. The facility opened in 1923 after being donated to the college by Lunsford Richardson, Jr., Davidson class of 1914, and his brother Henry Smith Richardson, Davidson class of 1906, in memory of their father, Lunsford Richardson, Sr., Davidson class of 1875. It was later renovated in 1998 and again in 2005 with the latter providing upgraded amenities including expanded seating, a new press box, weight room, and visitor's locker room.
Gene Hooks Stadium was a baseball stadium in Winston-Salem, NC. It was the primary home field of the Wake Forest University Demon Deacons college baseball teams from 1981 through 2008.
Kentner Stadium is a multi-use stadium located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina on the campus of Wake Forest University. Kentner Stadium serves as home to the Demon Deacons track and field and field hockey teams. It also housed the Deacon soccer teams until they moved across campus to Spry Stadium.
W. Dennie Spry Soccer Stadium is a soccer-specific stadium located on the campus of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina where it is home to the Wake Forest Demon Deacons soccer teams.
The ASU Soccer Stadium is a soccer-specific stadium in Boone, North Carolina and is home to the Appalachian State Mountaineers men's and women's soccer teams. The stadium, which is part of the Ted Mackorell Soccer Complex, opened for its first game in 2008 against the College of Charleston Cougars.
Franklin County High School is located in Rocky Mount, Virginia. Approximately 2300 students attend Franklin County High School, which was founded in 1950. Since its founding, Franklin County High School, commonly known as FCHS, has grown to the largest school in the state west of Richmond.
A.J. Simeon Stadium is a 15,000-capacity multi-use stadium in High Point, North Carolina. Simeon Stadium is the home of the High Point Central High School and T. Wingate Andrews High School football and soccer events. The stadium was also the home of the Carolina Dynamo professional soccer team of the USL Premier Development League from 1996 to 1999, and the Carolina Phoenix women's football team at various times. Currently, the stadium is home to the John Wesley University men's and women's soccer teams.
College Field was Appalachian State University's college football stadium in Boone, North Carolina. The Mountaineers played at College Field from 1928 to 1961. The Mountaineers moved across campus to Kidd Brewer Stadium in 1962.
James Johnson is an American college basketball coach and former head coach of the Virginia Tech Hokies men's basketball team. He was hired in 2012 to succeed Seth Greenberg, on whose staff Johnson had worked until leaving for Clemson, only to be hired back 12 days later. Johnson was fired by Virginia Tech on March 17, 2014 after two seasons with an overall record of 22-41.
The 2015 Hampden–Sydney Tigers football team represented Hampden–Sydney College in the 2015 NCAA Division III football season. It was the Tigers' 121st overall, the 40th as a member of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference. The team was led by Marty Favret, in his sixteenth year as head coach, and played its home games at Lewis C. Everett Stadium in Death Valley, Hampden–Sydney, Virginia.
Summers-Taylor Stadium is a college soccer-specific stadium located on the campus of East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee, in the United States. The stadium is home to the East Tennessee State Buccaneers men's and women's soccer programs. The stadium opened in 2008 and sits 2,000 spectators.
The 2007 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament was played at the end of the 2007 NCAA Division III baseball season to determine the 32nd national champion of college baseball at the NCAA Division III level. The tournament concluded with eight teams competing at Time Warner Cable Field at Fox Cities Stadium in Grand Chute, Wisconsin for the championship. Eight regional tournaments were held to determine the participants in the World Series. Regional tournaments were contested in double-elimination format, with three regions consisting of six teams and five consisting of seven, for a total of 53 teams participating in the tournament. The tournament champion was Kean, who defeated Emory for the championship.
