Former Hopewell High School Basketball  Coach  and State Hall a Famer Bill Littlepage,  and one of the stars of his 1972 State Championship team Ed Gholson

In Episode 4 of Wonder City Sports talk Coaches Elvin and Jackie Edmonds and their son Elvin the fourth were our guests. As these coaches spearhead the boys and girls basketball programs at Hopewell High School, their son is a rising senior in his father's program and has  lead the team in scoring each of the last three years. They spoke to the ingredients of success that they work towards as a family and as a team.

In this episode of Wonder City Sports, The Wonder City crew welcomes Hopewell Offensive Line Coach Brian Moore, Golf Coach Jared Jenkins

and Senior Quarterback Joseph Elliades

Offensive coordinator for Hopewell High School's Football team, Brock Parker, was our first guest. Raised in a football family, his father and co-host Marshall Parker spoke to those growing up years.  Both having played quarterback, they interacted about the importance of character and family values in the development of leadership with their teams and the community. Switching gears, our second guest Rich Halas is the Cross Country Coach for Hopewell High School. He spoke about the challenge of coaching during COVID, and how the delayed season impacts his coaching of the Wrestling team. He will return later in the fall to talk about Wrestling. We returned in our final segment to Coach Marshall Parker.  We heard his reflection upon his 2003 Division 5 State Championship team, as well as his grooming of Assistant Coach Ricky Irby who now as Head Coach, has won two Division 3 State Championships in the last three years.

"Wonder City" is Hopewell's nostalgic name, and we kicked off  our program  with legendary Wonder City Coach J.P. Tiller and his grandson Adam Tiller, a head football coach in his own right here in our area.  The Tiller's then handed things off to current Hopewell High School Coach Ricky Irby, who got his start in coaching 20 years ago from one of our co-hosts, Coach Marshall Parker.  Between the two of them, they've coached  three State Championships for Hopewell High , and they humbly shared some of the secrets to their success.  Then we capped off our program with the Gatorade Virginia Player of the Year Trey Henderson, who helped lead the Blue Devils to a perfect 15-0 season and their second state championship in three years.  He talked about his commitment to Ohio State and the challenges since COVID-19 .  

Introduction to Wonder City Sports Talk