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![The Sumter School District is still deciding when they will allow its high schools to resume sports activities, including football with Sumter quarterback Hayden Vasquez (15), after the South Carolina High School League announced that each school district will be able to decide when athletics resume.]()
Sumter School District yet to decide when student-athletes can begin workouts
The South Carolina High School League announced at the end of last week the state's public schools could begin summer workouts after having sports shut down since the middle of March due to the coronavirus pandemic. However, it left the door open to …
![Lakewood's Kylie Edwards, above, Sumter's Landon Jones and Crestwood's Na'Kiya Tye were among the 73 seniors that submitted their stories about losing their senior seasons.]()
Thanks to the 'lost spring seniors'
With the printing and posting of Part XV of "Hearing from the lost spring seniors" in Tuesday's edition of The Sumter Item, the project itself came to an end.
There were 73 student-athletes from the spring sports teams from the seven South …
![Former Sumter High School assistant and current South Florence football head coach Drew Marlowe, center, works from home while surrounded by his family. The coronavirus pandemic has limited Marlowe in his transition to not only being a head coach but being at a new school as well.]()
Former Sumter assistant Marlowe battles difficult first offseason as head coach at South Florence
The spring and summer of 2020 may be one of the most difficult times to transition to a new career path.
That difficulty is not lost on Drew Marlowe, the former Sumter High School player and assistant coach who took his first head coaching job …
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The lost spring seniors: COVID-19's impact on Sumter, Clarendon, Lee high school athletes, Part XIV
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The lost spring seniors: COVID-19's impact on Sumter, Clarendon, Lee high school athletes, Part XIII
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The lost spring seniors: COVID-19's impact on Sumter, Clarendon, Lee high school athletes, Part XII
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The lost spring seniors: COVID-19's impact on Sumter, Clarendon, Lee high school athletes, Part XI
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![Sumter linebacker Deshawn McKnight (30) committed to play at Appalachian State on Thursday.]()
Sumter LB McKnight commits to Appalachian State
Sumter High School linebacker Deshawn McKnight still has his senior year of football in front of him, but he didn't want to delay on making his decision on life after high school.
On Thursday, McKnight committed to play at Appalachian State, …
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The lost spring seniors: COVID-19's impact on Sumter, Clarendon, Lee high school athletes, Part VIII
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The lost spring seniors: COVID-19's impact on Sumter, Clarendon, Lee high school athletes, Part VII
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