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Soccerboy,

You make a very good point. Dr. Callicut was involved in the Dutch Fork / Irmo split and he obviously feels that everything there worked out for the better. Move the juniors and get it over with......they'll still have two full years at Nation Ford. This parent seems to be too caught up on having her kid as a member of the last "intact" graduating class of Fort Mill HS, rather than looking at the distinction of being part of the "first ever" graduating class at Nation Ford.

pricklyricky,

Fort Mill HS just won the Boys Swimming state championship last week. The Boys X-Country team will be the favorite to win the state championship this fall as well, with the Girls X-Country team probably finishing in the Top 3.

Not bad for a fall season. Obviously more than a one-horse town.

You forgot their marching band that has 18 state championships since 1981.. and multiple appearences at Grand Nationals..



sidenote: That FM parent is a moron.

Bluffton/Hilton Head went through a similar problem. At first parents were told that all students living in the Bluffton attendance zone would be forced to attend Bluffton High. This upset many '05 parents who had gone through a split with a middle school a few years earlier. The school board then amended the policy to allow seniors the choice to attend Bluffton or Hilton Head. All other Bluffton students were to attend Bluffton.

I hate to say this but the split has not been a good one. So I hope your situation will go better.

jwood,

Looks like as far as girls soccer is concerned, HH got the better end of the deal. HH was still 4A last spring and finished #15 in the state. They beat Bluffton 9-0 early in the season.

Bluffton is 3A, is enrollment growing to the point where they will be 4A soon? Will Bluffton improve on last year's record?

Hmmm...an interesting thread. It sounds like the old "bait and switch" in the Fort Mill school district.
Soccerboy: Did Dutch Fork High School start playing varsity sports right away, or did they keep teams at Irmo for awhile?

I want to say that they started varsity sports right away...but then again I was in Illinois in college. But I seem to remember varsity sports starting. Sorry I'm not any more help.

FMFAN,
Please, tell me where all of these "scholarships" are so that when my children become of age, they can get them. I think you need to realize that the state championship in HS doesn't mean as much as being seen on an excellent club team. That is usually where the exposure is, not in HS. But I am highly doubtful that most kids would get much of a scholarship for college when it comes to soccer. At a private institution, you may get a few bucks thrown your way...but to get a scholarship of any monetary amount for a D1 school, you have to be awesome!

Dutch Fork HS opened in 1992-93 and began with varsity athletics.

I believe the first DF football team had the Silver Foxes tail running down the middle of their helmet that fall and were quarterbacked by one of the Quattlebaum's.

On a side note, DF played in the inaugural Palmetto Cup, tabbed the Brookland-Cayce Classic, in the spring of 1993 along with B-C, Mauldin, and South Florence. DFHS competed in Class 3A their first four years, I think -- maybe Coach Wayne Quinlan can fill in some of the gaps.

FMFAN
nevermind that last post of mine...you are probably talking football scholarships. I never played football, so I don't know. But still, school is there to learn. The duty of the school board is to provide the best education for the students, not to worry about how good sports teams are going to be. That is for the AD and coaches. The school board is just doing their job!