In this episode of Wonder City Sports  Coach Edmonds, James Pelham and their sons stop by to talk about winning the 3A state championship. Coach Irby provides an update on the Hopewell football team. 

In this episode Hopewell Jv Basketball and Prince George boys, Volleyball coach Mayes Marks and his sons stop by to discuss sports in the Tri-cities. 

Week 13 of Wonder City Sports talk featured Assistant Hopewell High School Boys Basketball Coach Jarred Jenkins, who is also the school's golf coach. He shared his enthusiasm for beginning practice with the team on December 7th and hopefully 2 weeks later the freedom to have their first game against Petersburg High School. Coach Jenkins shared a Tiger Woods type story of his father teaching him the game of golf at age three. He shared his commitment to helping establish golf for Hopewell elementary students. Our second guest was the former captain of the 2015 Hopewell High School boys basketball team Isaiah Fernandez. Isaiah shared how his struggle with high school injuries helped make him a better person and better able to pass along life lessons to current college players at Mississippi State University where he is a graduate assistant for the ladies team.

The Executive Director of Hopewell Parks and Recreation, Mr. Aaron

Week 11 of Wonder City Sports talk begins with cardiologist Dr. Cliff Morris as our first guest. Having played with Michael Jordan in the mid-80s at the University of North Carolina, Dr. Morris talked also about his time  playing for UNC Coach

In week 10 of Wonder, City Sports talk,  Coach Bill Littlepage, returns to the program along with fellow coach Billy Russell from Prince George High School. They talk about the days when their teams squared off as rivals. They talk about their friendship, then and now. They discussed what they did to balance academics, character, and keeping in their players the intense desire to win. They reflected on their role as Athletic Directors and what they would do today if serving in that role. Finally, Covid 19 was discussed with all its complexities on athletic programs, and the governor's decision announced today that may cut out winter sports.

Coach Ricky Irby brought two of his football players on to Wonder City Sports talk as our first guests.  Senior's Robert Briggs and Eric McDaniels joined the Coach. In our second half-hour, we interviewed Coach Delicia Page, Hopewell's  Cheerleading Coach along with

PGA tour Sales Manager Jeff Fitch joins us for the hour!  A Hopewell High School graduate from 1986, Jeff ran for the Cross Country team,  and later taught in the Hopewell school system as well as coached track and field. For 11 and 1/2 years he worked for the Richmond Sports Backers before taking his current sales position for the PGA tour. Some topics that were addressed: how can we make the game of golf more accessible to all people, and how the pandemic actually has helped the game of golf.

Host Jeff Butler, co-host Stefan Calos,  Chai Gallahun,  Charlie Dane

Hopewell High School Athletic Director Kerry Gray spoke with us first about the one to one athletic training he has provided for various Hopewell athletes -including brothers Ronnie Walker and Tre Henderson. We also reviewed  the Virginia High School League's adjusted efforts for  sports delayed by  the Coronavirus.

Our second guest was Hopewell native and Olympian swimmer Diane Miller Lauder. We discussed the success she enjoyed at University of Richmond earning All American Honors for her 9 individual titles and 3  First place Relay Races. A member of the Va. Sports Hall of Fame, she is a proud Mom, lawyer, and currently works for University of Richmond as its Director of Planned Giving.

Former  Football Head Coach Bobby Ross, from Georgia Tech, and San Diego Charger days joined us to not only talk with us about college and NFL coaching days but also when as quarterback for Benedictine High School,  he went up against the Hopewell High School state championship teams of the early fifties. Then Girls Field Hockey Coach Lara Stables, in her 7th year as Hopewell High Schools coach, gave us the inside scoop on this fall sport be ing postponed to winter because of the virus. She also spoke about her current cadre of senior players and their contributions to the team.