This year’s Cherokee Lady Braves varsity basketball team is not the tallest team out there, but what they lack in stature they more than make up for in grit, determination, and unity. 

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians was well represented at the N.C. Senior State Games this year.  Medals were won in many various sports including track and field, basketball, shuffleboard, bocci ball, bowling, golf, and more. 

Darius Lambert, a junior member of the Cherokee High School cross country team, finished 15th in the boys 1A state cross country championship at the Ivey Redmon Sports Complex in Kernersville on the morning of Saturday, Nov. 4. 

There is no place known as the CHS Arena.  It doesn’t exist.  It is the Charles George Memorial Arena.  It is not the CHS Arena or the high school arena or simply the arena. 

Murphy (9-2) defeated Cherokee (10-1), giving the Braves their first loss of the season, 35-12, at Ray Kinsland Stadium on Friday, Nov. 3. 

Kallup McCoy II likes to push himself.  The EBCI tribal member from the Birdtown Community, who has been in sobriety and recovery for seven months as of Saturday, Oct. 28, has become a triathlete and hopes to bring a sprint triathlon event to Cherokee in the spring. 

Darius Lambert, a junior member of the Cherokee High School cross country team, placed ninth at the 1A West Regional meet at Asheville Christian Academy on the damp morning of Saturday, Oct. 28. 

Going by the statistics, Cherokee and Hayesville seemingly played a close game, but the scoreboard told quite a different story.