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Hines Furniture Athletes of the Year: Sumter High's Margaret McMahon and Jonathan Henry
MARGARET MCMAHON
Sumter High School
Volleyball
The junior middle hitter won the team’s Best Offense Award, made the All-Region IV-5A team and was nominated for All-State. She had 201 kills …
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Hines Players of the Year: Wilson Hall's Kayla Porter, Sumter High's Ja'Kheem Heyward
JA’KHEEM HEYWARDSumter High SchoolBoys Track and FieldThe senior finished second in the 5A state meet in the long lump with a jump of 24 feet, 2.25 inches and won the event in the Bojangles …
![MICAH GREEN / THE SUMTER ITEMA Sumter High School football player runs laps around the track while other players go through spring practice drills.]()
Sumter sets tone with physical spring
The Sumter Item sports writer Danny Kelly conducted a question-and-answer interview with each of the 12 high school football coaches in Sumter, Clarendon and Lee counties, asking each the same five questions about their recently concluded spring …
![USC Sports Information Department / Special to the Sumter Item Jordan Holladay has transferred from the University of South Carolina to play for NCAA Division II powerhouse North Greenville University in Tigerville.]()
Former SHS, USC Gamecock Holladay transferring to North Greenville
Former Sumter High School first baseman Jordan Holladay entered the NCAA transfer portal last week, and it didn't take him long to make a decision.
He decided to transfer to NCAA Division II powerhouse North Greenville by the end of the week to …
![SUMTER ITEM FILE PHOTO Former Sumter High School basketball standout Isaih Moore has left College of Charleston after one season. He is transferring to Tallahassee Community College in Tallahassee, Florida, and hopes to sign with an NCAA Division I school after a season there.]()
Former SHS standout Isaih Moore leaves CofC for Florida JUCO
Former Sumter High School basketball standout Isaih Moore has left College of Charleston after one season and is transferring to Tallahassee Community College in Tallahassee, Florida.
The 6-foot-10-inch, 180 pound Moore played sparingly for the …
![PHOTOS BY BARBARA BOXLEITNER / SPECIAL TO THE SUMTER ITEMSumter's Charlie Barnes, pictured, and JP Sears were scheduled to pitch against each other in a recent Florida State League game. Rain kept the meeting from happening, and Barnes has now been promoted.]()
Sumter pitchers Sears, Barnes scheduled minor league meeting didn't happen
FORT MYERS, Fla. - It was the matchup that was scheduled to happen but did not.
Sumter High School graduate Charles Barnes was scheduled to start for the Fort Myers Miracle on May 10 against the Tampa Tarpons in an Advanced Single-A Florida State …
![Sumter High School defensive back O’Donnell Fortune made a verbal commitment to University of South Carolina on Friday. He was offered by head coach Will Muschamp after participating in a camp in Columbia and committed on the spot.]()
SHS DB Fortune verbally commits to USC
O’Donnell Fortune is a Sumter High School Gamecock football player, and a very good one at that. His desire though has been to be a University of South Carolina Gamecock, and he has put himself in position for that to happen.
![SUMTER ITEM FILE PHOTOKeith West, the former Manning High School football head coach, has joined the staff of his alma mater, Sumter High, as wide receivers coach. West, who helped lead SHS to the 1987 4A Division I state title as a quarterback, was 21-12 in three seasons at Manning.]()
Former Manning head coach West joins coaching staff at alma mater Sumter
Former Manning High School football head coach Keith West decided it was time for him to go back to where his football career first took off.
West, who resigned after three years at Manning, accepted a job as the wide receivers coach on Gamecock …
![TREVOR BAUKNIGHT / THE SUMTER ITEM Sumter High's Theron Bradford signed to run track for Wofford College next season in a special signing ceremony at SHS last month. Bradford runs the 400-, 800- and 1600-meter races.]()
SHS's Bradford chooses Wofford College track
Theron Broadford of the Sumter High School track and field team will be staying in the state of South Carolina to continue his track career.
The senior has signed to run for Wofford College, and NCAA Division I school in the Southern …
![DANNY KELLY / THE SUMTER ITEM Sumter High golfers Andrew Griffin and Brandon Griffin, from left, have signed to play with the University of South Carolina Sumter. They will be part of the school's first men's golf team.]()
Sumter High's Griffin twins sign to play golf with USC Sumter
Not only do they look exactly the same, but identical twins Andrew and Brandon Griffin will also be playing college golf at the same university after playing at Sumter High School together.
The two signed to play golf at the University of South …
