RMHS is first in volleyball, second in boys soccer in preseason picks

I thought of doing this a few years ago, but I needed help. I got it Wednesday morning.

For the last eight or nine years, I have polled the Big East/NEW 6/Big East football coaches for their preseason football picks.

But I always wanted to poll some of the other fall sports coaches of their picks, but they meet at the same time as the football coaches and I couldn't be in three places at one time.

Enter friend Dave Buck and his son Stevie.

They administered poll ballots to the other coaches, while I took care of the football coaches. In the end, even with the absence of a couple coaches, we concluded with preseason conference polls in football, volleyball and boys soccer.

And Rocky Mount fared well in both, unlike football. Tabitha Wilcox's volleyball team finished narrowly in first, while Andrew Nick's squad placed behind Wilson Hunt for the boys soccer crown.

2011 Big East Preseason Volleyball Coaches Poll

(Five points for first place, four points for second place,. etc. Coaches could not vote for their own team)

1. Rocky Mount (2) 18 pts.

2. Wilson Hunt (3) 16 pts.

3. Northern Nash 14 pts.

4. Nash Central 12 pts.

5. Southern Nash 9 pts.

6. Wilson Fike 5 pts.

(one coach was absent for voting)

2011 Big East Preseason Boys Soccer Coaches Poll

(Five points for first place, four points for second place,. etc. Coaches could not vote for their own team)

1. Wilson Hunt (4) 24 pts.

2. Rocky Mount (1) 16 pts.

3. Wilson Fike 14 pts.

4. Southern Nash 10 pts.

T5. Nash Central 6 pts.

T5. Northern Nash 6 pts.

(one coach was absent for voting)