Two new SC schools have affiliated with the NFL, and we look forward to seeing these schools at tournaments throughout this year: Charleston County School of the Arts (Coach, Scott Flesher) and Southside Christian School (Coach, Martha White). School information for both of these schools can be found in the website directory. Please make sure you include them in your tournament mailings.

Welcome to our coaching circle a new coach at Dreher High School - Beth Crawford. We will miss Kathy Sutusky, but we are thrilled that Beth has been recruited to continue the long forensic tradition at Dreher. Please note the update of information concerning Beth under Dreher High School in the Directory. There is also new information for Dorman High School.

As always, the South Carolina Schools did well at the Wake Forest Earlybird tournament held September 20-22. Here are the results in individual events:

2nd place Original Oratory - Sonam Shah of Riverside

Quarterfinalist Original Oratory - Lauren Kehe of Riverside

5th place Humorous Interp - Irfan Rhemtulla of Riverside

Quarterfinalist Humorous Interp - Jimmy Twining of Riverside

5th place Duo Interp - Susan Edwards and Katy Lewis of Riverside

Semifinalist Duo Interp - Matt MacPherson and Daniel Kijsamnong of Hillcrest

Quarterfinalists Duo Interp - Irfan Rhemtulla and Brent Schoen of Riverside

Semifinalist Dramatic Interp - Dimitri Basilakos of Riverside

Quarterfinalist Dramatic Interp - Michelle Purvis of Riverside

Semifinalist Impromptu - Matthew McPherson of Hillcrest

Quarterfinalists Impromptu - John Rupp and Chase Stoudenmire of Riverside and Christine Byington of Hillcrest

Quarterfinalists Extemp - Adam Reichenthal and Frank Hollerman of Southside and Tom Roehl of Riverside

2nd place overall Congress - Peter Sima of Mauldin

Super Congress Participants - Melissa Jones of Irmo; Chris Schoen, Khanjan Baxi, and Jason Hill of Riverside

Congratulations to Riverside for capturing 5th place overall Sweepstakes!

NOTE: Anytime your team has news such as tournament results that you want to post on the web, please feel free to send me the information. Also, any coach awards need to be sent my way.

Please help me keep the website updated by checking the Student Achievement page. Do you have recent Quad Ruby recipients or All American recipients that are not on the list? Please email me ASAP if I have missed someone. These students deserve all the recognition they can get for either of these accomplishments. The most recent Quad Ruby recipients are the following:

Congratulations to Nate Smith of Southside and Paul Matzko of Bob Jones Academy.

You should be receiving NFL materials in the mail from the national office. To save mailing expenses, the National office is sending all supplies in September. Large schools will more than likely receive two packages of supplies. Any time you run out of supplies, please contact the national office.

Due to homecoming, the USC Tournament has been moved to November 2. Please make note of this on your calendars.

As of today (September 19), the only school that has expressed interest in hosting the District tournament in March is Mauldin HS. The committee will finalize this location by October.

I have set up an "Archives" section on the website. All old NFL newsletters will be placed there so that they are still available for your information. Currently, the August newsletter is in the archives.

The Bob Jones Academy 2002 tournament information is available on the website. It is in Acrobat Reader format and is printable. Any schools that want their own tournament information on the website should use "Contact Webmaster" as the means of sending the information. Please send all information in a Word document.