Congratulations to Asheville football coach Danny Wilkins for being named NC Coach of the Year by the Associated Press.  Wilkins led the Cougars to a perfect 15-0 season and State 3A Championship this year and has a 40-3 record over the last three years. Coach Wilkins was also named the WNC Coach of the Year and will coach in the East-West All Star Game in July.  These are well-deserved honors for a fine man and a fine coach!! 

(No Coach, this is not a dream!)

Asheville's Crezdon Butler continues to add to his impressive collection of post-season awards which already include:  MAC Co-Player-of-the-Year (with Johnny White); State 3A Championship MVP; Shrine Bowl selection (contributed to victory over SC team); and AP All-State Team (defensive back).  Butler recently finished tied for second place in the AP voting for NC Player-of-the-Year and has been named WNC Player-of-the-Year.  He was also the first to break the career rushing record of Asheville High's Charlie "Choo Choo" Justice this season and is 112 yards short of teammate White's school record career mark with 5,011 rushing yards. 

When asked what he was going to do with all the hardware he modestly stated "I guess I'll just stack it up."   Indeed!

Asheville -- The Cougar football team was honored at a school assembly on Wednesday, December 21 for their State Championship win.  Asheville Mayor Terry Bellamy and City Council members presented a proclamation honoring the team.   Special thanks to Tom Williams for these photos!

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Congratulations to the following Cougars and Lady Cougars who were named All-Conference in the Mountain Athletic Conference in their respective sports for fall 2005:

Cross Country:  Chet Howland and Andrew North 

Field Hockey:  Paige Chamberlin, Lauren Dave, Elizabeth Gaston, Alex Gittemeier, Elise Goodrich, Davis Hillier, Virginia Ann Lifchez and Meg Rhodes.

Football:  Ben Pless, Drew Baker, Neville Hayes, Quinn Kirkland, Josh Israel, Vincent Henry, Kadeem Morgan, Rico Parks and Derelle McMorris.
Coach of the year: Danny Wilkins
Co-offensive players of the year: Crezdon Butler and Johnny White.

Soccer: Renato Corte, Drew Meadows, Glenn Lawson, Joel Fillmon, Warren Hammond and Tim Snedeker.
Coach of the year: Mike Flowe
Player of the year: Indy Smith

Tennis:  Christiane Pheil, Ashley Brown and Nicole Powell.
Player of the year: Alexa Ely

Durham, North Carolina -- The Scoreboard says it all. Asheville defeated Western Alamance 13-10 to win the NCHSAA 3A Football State Championship for the first time since 1922.

Check out our Photo Gallery of frames from our CSN Coverage!

#5 Crezdon Butler, QB, was named Most Valuable Player.

Check out this gameday photo gallery of our production: 2005 Football State Championship: CSN Behind The Scenes