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[EagleMan52]

I wonder if those numbers are updated.

No, they definitely aren't. SCISA needs to update their site in August when everyone is back in school and we can get an accurate account of school sizes. They still have Florence Christian listed at 675, in August 2009 we had 740 and from what I'm hearing right now we are sitting at 765 (with numerous of people of a waiting list for various grades) and we still have a few short weeks left before school starts.

[TSA football Dad]

We are nowhere near a 3A school. In our last 3 years or so in 3A, our male student enrollment was the size of an average 2A school. It showed especially in football when we'd have 25 players looking across at the likes of WH, LMA, OP, etc every week who had double our number of players. Our female enrollment was what kept us in 3A. We've constantly been dropping the last few years in enrollment. I don't know the particulars, but I would imagine we're probably right around the average for 2A schools, maybe a little above.

As of 2009 all sports teams at TSA have gone to 2A the enrollment has fallen off Tsa does not have the numbers to play with the 3A teams. In the past we were A 3A but that was a few years ago

[fan4football]

as requested:

Veteran Griggs takes over at Dillon Christian


By David Shelton

Staff Writer

Dillon – After a fairly lengthy retirement from coaching, Rodney Griggs is back in the saddle and doing what he loves to do.

Griggs is the new athletic director and head football coach at Dillon Christian School, bringing a wealth of knowledge and experience as a leader and teacher.

Griggs has coached at several private (Roy Hudgens, Thomas Sumter, Williamsburg and Andrews Academy) and public schools (Cheraw, Elloree, Terrell’s Bay) over his career but has been out of the coaching profession for more than 10 years. He is excited to be back in the game.

“I really love coaching and I missed it while I was gone,” said Griggs, who will also coach boy’s basketball this winter. “I was in coaching for a long time and I enjoyed it very much. I had an opportunity about 10 years ago to go into business and I took the chance. I did very well at it and things were great until the economy took a turn a few years ago. At that point I just felt it was time to get back into coaching and this job came open during the spring. I’m excited to be here.”

While excited to be back in the coaching profession, Griggs inherits a program that is in a state of flux. Despite a great deal of success, especially in football, the program is in a transitional phase. The tough economy has forced a number of students back into the public school system and numbers are down from where they were a few years ago.

“We certainly have a challenge ahead of us, not just in football but in all of our sports,” said Griggs. “From a football perspective, our numbers are very low right now. This program won back-to-back state championships the last two years and graduated 15 seniors last year. Another four went back to public school. We have nine returning kids on the roster. We’ve definitely got some rebuilding to do in terms of the numbers for football.”

Griggs has been on the job at Dillon Christian for only five weeks and is still finding his way around. He has worked to assemble a coaching staff but currently has only one coach – Steve Johnson.

In the other sports, Griggs has an opening in girl’s basketball.

“We are looking for some volunteers, people with a knowledge of sports in the community, to help us out in football and the other sports,” said Griggs.

Randy Carlisle and Johnson will be back next spring to coach the baseball team. Billy Massingale will return to coach softball and Glenn Parrish returns to coach volleyball. Christian Wolfe will be coaching on the junior varsity football team

[EagleMan52]

Thanks fan4football, sounds like its going to be a long year for the Warriors.