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Some people think of Christmas as a time where you get presents. I think of Christmas as a time where my whole family gets together and celebrates when Jesus was born.
When my family gets together, my heart feels like it is about to explode with holiday joys. We all laugh and talk until we are so tired of talking, and then we all eat a great Christmas dinner.

ROCKY MOUNT -- Halfway through the season, Nash Central High School's swim team has already accomplished some of its goals -- with more hopefully being achieved in January.
Central, along with the rest of its Big East Conference competitors, wrapped up its pre-holiday schedule last Thursday at the Harrison Family YMCA in Rocky Mount.
The Bulldogs were without several key performers due to illness and other school commitments, but still offered a strong showing.

Members of the Southern Nash High School Swim Team wore pink T-shirts during last Thursday's Big East Conference Meet to help raise awareness for cancer research. Southern Nash has made a long-time commitment to this cause in all of its junior varsity and varsity sporting endeavors.

STANHOPE -- For the past several years, Rocky Mount's boys and Northern Nash's girls controlled the proceedings at the annual Nash County Christmas Basketball Tournament.
But in a signal of the changing of the holiday guard, neither of those clubs were around for last Thursday's championship contests at the Southern Nash High School Gymnasium.

RED OAK -- Regardless of the sport, Nash Central and Red Oak boast one of the area's hottest middle school rivalries.
And last Thursday's basketball doubleheader would live up to that billing as both the boys and girls games would go down to the wire.
Both contests would be claimed by host Red Oak in a pair of Tri-County Conference thrillers at the ROMS Gymnasium to cap off the pre-holiday schedule in the TCC.

ROCKY MOUNT -- Nash Central High School tangled with a Eastern Wayne as part of a tri-match wrestling event on Dec. 16 at the NCHS Gymnasium.
Eastern Wayne was a 47-36 winner.
Results from the contest were as follows:

ROCKY MOUNT -- Head Coach John Thompson reached a coaching milestone last Monday afternoon by notching the 300th victory of his career in North Carolina Wesleyan College's 75-66 win over Guilford College.
Having joined Wesleyan prior to the 1995-1996 season, all 300 of Thompson's victories have come on the Battling Bishop sideline, and the veteran coach from Durham remains, by far, the most successful coach in program history.

CLEVELAND -- Nash Central and Southern Nash will be in action once again at the Cleveland Classic Basketball Tournament.
The event, which will feature boys and girls brackets, is targeted for Dec. 28-30 at Cleveland High School in Johnston County.
Tickets for each day will be available at the gate.
Nash Central, the defending girls tournament champion, will open its repeat quest Dec. 28 at 4 p.m. against the West Johnston Wildcats.

CHAPEL HILL -- Wells Fargo, along with the North Carolina High School Athletic Association, has announced the final standings in the Wells Fargo Conference Cup competitions for the 2015 fall sports season.
The Wells Fargo Cup award, sponsored by Wells Fargo and the NCHSAA, recognizes the schools that achieve the best overall interscholastic athletic performance within each of the state's four competitive classifications.

NASH COUNTY -- The Nash County Parks & Recreation Department hosted the Sectional Punt, Pass, & Kick event this October.
Three of the winners advanced to the State level from the Sectional competition and competed two weekends ago during a Carolina Panthers' football game.
These athletes were able to compete in the morning and then were given tickets to watch the Panthers win their thirteenth game in a row.
The three participants that advanced were Jordan Vick in the 8/9 Boys, Allison Eto in the 10/11 Girls, and Trey Smelcer in the 14/15 Boys.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - After claiming the American Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament title and finishing second in the regular season standings in its inaugural year in the league, East Carolina University has been picked third in the 2016 preseason poll, as chosen by the league's eight head coaches.
Under the direction of second-year head coach Cliff Godwin, the Pirates return 17 letterwinners including Coral Gables All-Regional selection Garrett Brooks, 2015 Freshman All-America and All-AAC Tournament member Joe Ingle, three-time Johnny Bench Award Watch List member Travis Watkins and 2014 all-conference diamond performers Bryce Harman and Charlie Yorgen.

Northern Nash's Darius Spragley (left) helped the Knights claim the boys championship at the Nash County Christmas Basketball Tournament. The Knights defeated backyard rival Nash Central in the title showdown at Southern Nash.

Nash Central's Montre Cash (left) elevates for a basket during last Thursday's championship matchup of the Nash County Christmas Basketball Tournament at Southern Nash.

Big East Conference swimmers had their final pre-holiday meet last Thursday at the Harrison Family YMCA in Rocky Mount. Among the competitors were (above) Nash Central's Cameron Beal.