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Sports HCPS Motorsports Academy fields two cars at SBS
SoVaNow.com / March 10, 2010
By Brandi BarksdaleSpecial to the News & Record Saturday, the race is on. On Saturday, the Halifax County High School motorsports teams will have their varsity and jayvee cars running in the race at South Boston Speedway. Car 21, driven by Joey Throckmorton, in the Limited Sportsman Division is backed by the High Schools Motorsports varsity team consisting of nine students on the pit crew: DeAndre Andrews, J.E. Anderson, Matt Conner, Shawn Conner, J.D. Jones, Trevaun Muse, Evan Slabach, Tyler Slabach, and Tiffany Wilson. Doug Newcomb and Brian Seate instruct the varsity team. Throckmorton, a 2001 graduate of Halifax County High School, said, "I got involved in racing by my dad and my uncle, because they raced and I was always at their races. Then, when I was 16, I started saving up money for my own car. " Car 09 will be driven by Trey Crews in the Pure Stock Division, which is the High Schools Motorsports jayvee teams car. On the jayvee pit crew are: Michael Barclay, Grant Cole, Kayla Cole, Crystal Hancock, Ciera Koral, James Palmer, Boris Pointer, and Jay Womack. Danny Wilborn and Buddy Wilborn instruct the jayvee team. Crews is a 15-year-old, ninth grader at the HCHS. He said, "I started out racing go-karts. I have been racing them for six years; but I needed something faster, so I start racing in the Pure Stock Division this year." More than 200 students are enrolled in the motorsports courses and participate in the races at South Boston Speedway. Brandi Barksdale and Bridget Simmerman are two reporters from the HCHS yearbook staff who will be covering the events at the races. Also there is an intern through the HCHS Intern Workforce program. Megan Day will be working with Cathy Rice and her staff at the South Boston Speedway this season. Day is a senior at the and will be attending the University of North Carolina at Charlotte focusing on Business Administration as it relates to Motorsports. This program is unique to Virginia because there is no other high school in the state that offers this experience. The program does not use any funds from the schools budget. The motorsports department is funded by South Boston Speedway, the Mattioli Foundation, and Farm Bureau Insurance. Except for the Halifax County Public Schools Motorsports Academy, Farm Bureau has canceled all other donations in the racing field. Newcomb said, This program helps push students to stay in school and to be engaged in what they are learning. Every day my students have to apply what they are learning from other classes to accomplish tasks in this class. We pull from other classes such as math, geometry, physics, marketing as well as many others. When my students have to use formulas from such as algebra to figure out how to complete a task, it proves to them that the information they are learning is useful to them in accomplishing their goals. Mel Stanley, director of academies said, Over the past four seasons, I have seen a tremendous growth and interest in the motorsports program. Living in the racing beltway, has proven to provide our students with an exciting and hands-on experience. Several of our students who have completed the course work and internship program at the high school have continued into the field either into the job market directly as crew chiefs and pit crew members of local drivers at various divisions or gone on to four-year universities, such as the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, entering into the motorsports engineering programs. Some parents have indicated that this program has been very beneficial for their children, keeping their interest in school. I do feel like the motorsports program is a very positive component of the school curriculum in Halifax County. Superintendent Paul Stapleton said, This motorsports program is one of the most unique career & technical education programs in the Commonwealth of Virginia offered through a public school. We are very fortunate to be able to provide our students with the opportunities to work closely with the personnel involved in the Motorsports Academy at South Boston Speedway. These opportunities would not be possible without the strong support and funding from the South Boston Speedway, Mattioli Foundation, and Farm Bureau Insurance. We are also very gracious of all the support our community has provided with regards to the Motorsports program. Halifax Sports
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