Sports
The Panthers are the 1984 2A State Baseball champions. Piedmont baseball team has also put many baseball players in the major leagues Andy Tomberlin, Rob Lyerly, and Dallas Tarlton. They have also had state champions in swimming, wrestling, and track and field. Also, the football team had a 31 game regular season winning streak from 2001-2003 under Coach Rusty Jester, winning the district title during that run. The woman's softball and men's baseball teams are currently two of the top teams in 3A.
Currently the teams compete in the Rocky River Conference, which is 2A. This downgrade was made the school year of 2009-2010. They had been competing in the South Piedmont Conference which is 3A
Currently, the biggest rival for Piedmont is Porter Ridge. Piedmont is currently 2-3 against them all time in football. Historically, though, Piedmont's biggest rival in high school football is Forest Hills High School. Frank Ambrose was named the new varsity football coach for the 2008-2009 year after the team only won 2 games over the last few years. Ambrose had just one win in 2008 against rival Porter Ridge during his first year at Piedmont. During his second year as head coach, he led the Panthers to a 7-4 record and made the NC State playoffs. Ambrose has signed 2 Division I College football players during the summer of 2010 and finished with an 11-2 record, losing in the second round of the state playoffs.
The Piedmont Varsity cheerleaders have become highly competitive and won a 5th place title at State out of 22 squads. They also won a first place title at Methodist.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Falling in love is the right adventure for those who dislike sports and travel.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
Amidst thy bowers the tyrant’s hand is seen,
And desolation saddens all thy green;
One only master grasps the whole domain,
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain;”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)