Leesville Wrestling Regionals and States: The End To A Great Season
On Friday, February 8, Leesville wrestling set out for New Bern High School with a single goal in mind: qualify as many wrestlers for the…
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Leesville Wrestling Expands Their 100 Win Club
Leesville girls swim and dive captures first state title in 23 years
Triangle College Basketball: ACC Preview
Pride comes up short against Panther Creek
LRHS Men’s Swimming scores first meet win in over three years
Pride Basketball cruises past Cary High
The Leesville Road High School Swim Team Continues to Dominate North Carolina High School Swimming.
Cross Country Cap 7 And Beyond
Dylan Reeves Football Journey
Football is a game of passion, hard work, and pure dedication. Dylan Reeves, a senior at Leesville Road High School, has been displaying these characteristics…
A bright future for the Leesville XC team
After a successful season of racing, the cross country teams have started to buckle down and focus on the most important meets of the season:…
Arostegui and Pardo: Bound by soccer
Over the years, friends Malina Pardo, Leesville senior, and Hannah Arostegui, former Leesville student, would sometimes discuss the possibility of attending the same college together,…
Pride rolls to victory vs Southeast Raleigh
On Monday, September 24, Leesville Men’s Soccer Team (6-4-1, 3-1 CAP-7) looked to continue their winning streak against Southeast Raleigh, coming off a win at…
2018 NFL season kicks off
With the countdown of 214 days of no football almost over, the sports community is buzzing over the beginning of the season. The beginning of…
Pride Football Take on Green Hope in Their First Away Game of the Season
On Thursday, August 30, the Pride traveled to Green Hope for the teams first away game of the season. The Pride walked away with a…
Previewing the CAP-7 soccer season
The Leesville Men’s soccer team has had a great start to the season going 3-1-1 in their first five games. The team wants to continue…
Girls Track Brings Home Conference Championship
On Saturday, April 28, Leesville Road High spring track and field took on the Cap 7 conference championships. Southeast Raleigh High hosted this event and…
Leesville’s JV Women’s Soccer Falls Short Against Cardinal Gibbons
Last Thursday, April 12, during the JV Women’s soccer game, each half told a different story. In the first 35 minutes of the game, no…
Junior Varsity Softball Returns to Leesville
After a six year hiatus, a Junior Varsity Softball team returns to Leesville. In 2012, JV softball played their last game–until this year, that is….
Jalen and Ishua Benjamin: A bond on and off the court
Leesville assistant men’s basketball coach Ishua Benjamin received a call one day from Raleigh from his wife, Lisa, while playing basketball professionally overseas in Europe….
Athlete Spotlight: Richie Rizzuto
Richie Rizzuto, a sophomore wrestler at Leesville Road High, is taking the high school wrestling scene by storm. This past season–Rizzuto’s first in the starting…
Elise Hall Brings Home the State Title In Pole Vault
On Saturday February 10th, the NCHSAA 4A Indoor Track State Championships were held at JDL indoor track stadium in Greensboro, North Carolina. Elise Hall, Leesvilles…
Leesville women’s track excels at indoor state championship
In 2015, the Leesville women’s track team finished fourth at the 4A Indoor Track State Championship, its best finish ever. At this year’s state championships…
Leesville wrestling takes on regionals
The 4A East region wrestling championships took place on February 9-10, and Leesville showed up in force. Of the nineteen schools present, Leesville placed fourth…
Women’s basketball vs. Southeast Raleigh more than just a game
The Leesville women’s basketball team was unable to come out with a win on February 2 against Southeast Raleigh, losing 59-36. But the game was…
NFL 2017-18 Season Playoff Scenarios
As the year of 2017 comes to a close, the playoff season for the National Football League is just beginning. Teams with higher records race…
Wake County Track Meet
Leesville Road High School traveled to JDL Fast Track in Winston Salem on Friday, December 15 to compete in the Wake County Invitational #2. The…
Wrestling tri-meet at Leesville
The most recent wrestling meet that took place at Leesville on December 21,ended in a victory for the Pride. This meet in particular was a…
Heart of the Pride Cheer Team
There are several students at Leesville’s high school, middle school, and elementary school with special needs. Unlike several schools in the area, Leesville has…
Pride Soccer Season Recap
When the 2017-2018 boys soccer team at Leesville Road High School began, no one expected much out of them. The Pride didn’t have a lot…
Pride Football Families and All They Do
As playoffs begin,the Leesville football families are busier than ever. The name “football families” is the title given to the organization of parents who assist…
LRHS Wrestling Team Holds Annual “Blue/Green”
Things are just heating up for the wrestling team as the cold temperatures come into Raleigh. Less than a week before their first meet of…
Year-Round Athletes
School. Practice. Shower. Eat. Homework. Sleep. Repeat. This is what a typical day looks like for a year-round student athlete. Leesville is home to quite…
Basketball Season is Back
On Monday, October 30, Leesville men’s basketball held their tryouts after months of preparation and hard work for a long awaited season. The boys all…
Pride women’s tennis doubles team excels at states
On October 28, the talented Leesville women’s tennis doubles team of Helen Alvis, sophomore, and Kylie Rigsby, senior, shined at the NCHSAA 4A State Championship…
Autopsy of High School Football
On September 26, 2014, Isaiah Langston, a student at Rolesville Road High School, collapsed on the football field, hours before his Friday night football game….
Le’Veon Bell is the Man to Beat
Like him or hate him, Le’Veon Bell is a seemingly unstoppable force on the football field. Sooner or later, Bell comes for his opponents and…
Ticket to Play Process– What You Need to Know.
Thankfully the ticket to play process has been simplified. For the student athletes interested in participating in any sport at Leesville the ticket to play…
Embracing Pain: The Story of a Pride Record Holder’s Journey to Recovery
Carson Ellerby can’t recall exactly what happened on that midsummer evening. “I was just running,” said Ellerby. It was the night of July 20, 2016;…
Cross Country Impresses At Cap 7
On Tuesday, October 17, the Leesville Road High cross country team faced off against our district’s best at the 2017-18 Cap 7 Championship. Leesville’s own…
Winter Athletes Prepare for Season
With the end of fall comes the beginning of winter. That doesn’t only mean colder weather, but an entire season of new high school sports,…
Elon University welcomes Cole Coleman
Cole Coleman, a football star for Leesville Road, committed to Elon University on September 27. After lots of careful consideration, he accepted his full scholarship…
Is the President Violating the First Amendment?
The First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States vouches for the freedom of speech, religion and press. The amendment gives all citizens of…
Millbrook Wildcats Defeat Leesville JV Football
On Thursday night, October 5, the Leesville junior varsity football team took on the Millbrook Wildcats at Hamilton Stadium. Although the Pride made a strong…
Gibbons Dominates Leesville Football
On September 22, Leesville traveled to face the Cardinal Gibbons Crusaders for their first round of conference play. Leesville had notable plays and fought until…
My First ECU Football Game
Greenville, North Carolina, was the destination of a 90-minute drive from Raleigh. I stepped back onto the East Carolina University campus for the first time…
Cap-8 becomes “Cap-7”
In years past, Leesville’s athletic conference has involved the same eight schools. Over the summer the Wake County Athletic Association met to discuss a…
Men’s Soccer Beats Sanderson to Snap Losing Streak
Leesville’s men’s soccer team (3-5-2 Overall, 1-1 Conference) began Wednesday, September 13 game at Hamilton Stadium with high hopes to overcome their recent series of…
Leesville Sophomore Playing for Women’s US National Soccer Team
Katie Groff, a sophomore at Leesville, is a defensive back on the U16 US National Women’s Soccer team. Katie has been a part of the…
From Brazil to the US: The Journey of Two Young Basketball Players
For the past two years, select players from the Brazil Women’s National Basketball team have been journeying to the US seeking greater opportunities in basketball…