Granby High School - Sports at Granby High

Sports At Granby High

Granby High School offers a variety of sports as it is a member of the AAA Eastern Region of the Virginia High School League. Comets compete in the AAA Eastern District which is composed of the five Norfolk high schools and the three Portsmouth high schools. The sports offered at Granby include:

  • Baseball, Junior Varsity
  • Baseball, Varsity
  • Basketball, Boys
  • Basketball, Girls
  • Basketball, Junior Varsity, Boys
  • Basketball, Junior Varsity, Girls
  • Cheerleader, Junior Varsity
  • Cheerleaders, Varsity
  • Crew
  • Cross Country
  • Field Hockey
  • Football
  • Golf
  • Soccer, Boys
  • Soccer, Girls
  • Softball
  • Softball Junior Varsity
  • Swimming, Boys
  • Swimming, Girls
  • Tennis, Boys
  • Tennis, Girls
  • Track, Indoor
  • Track, Outdoor
  • Volleyball, Boys
  • Volleyball, Girls
  • Wrestling—Granby's Wrestling team has won over 20 Virginia State Championships with the infamous coach, Billy Martin. Coach Martin's teams won 21 state titles in 22 seasons at Granby High from 1949 to 1970. In the decade of the 1960s, Granby lost only two matches. Martin's most famous invention was the "Granby roll", a move that used an opponent's aggressiveness against him. It became the basis of the "Granby System," which is still taught today. He was elected to the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in 1980, one of the first high school coaches inducted.

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