Coach Yolanda Settles Returns Home!

Coach Yolanda Settles Returns Home!

Little did she know it when she walked across the stage to receive her diploma from Strom Thurmond High School in 1992 that she would one day return to teach and coach but that is exactly what Yolanda Settles will be doing. We are proud to announce that one of our own has come back […]

Meet the Rebels

Meet the Rebels

Strom Thurmond High will be scrimmaging Newberry next Wednesday night, 8 August, at home starting at 6:00 p.m.  Come out and meet the Rebels.  There will be a $3 admission charge.  Don’t forget the scrimmage Saturday morning 4 August at Laurens High School starting at 10:00 a.m.

Mysterious Football Team Coming to STHS

Mysterious Football Team Coming to STHS

Who are these masked men? Have they journeyed here from another planet? Could this be the first ever pigskin encounter of a third kind? No. I still do not know if this is official but if I wait any longer we will be roaring through state playoffs and the fun will have escaped me. When I […]

STHS Hires New Baseball Coach

STHS Hires New Baseball Coach

Strom Thurmond High School announced that it has hired Christopher R. Zylstra as its new varsity baseball coach. In a statement released today, the school indicated that Coach Zylstra is from Wyoming, Michigan and has just graduated from Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, MI earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Secondary Education with an emphasis in […]

A Bouquet of Cerebral Rebels

A Bouquet of Cerebral Rebels

By Jack Reece I have made peace with myself in regard to the matter of my being very much out of place in a rose garden.  But you need to know that I really enjoyed being the troll last Tuesday morning at a gathering of learned Rebel juniors especially since they were all beautiful young ladies.  […]

Rebels End Season

Rebels End Season

On Wednesday, May 9, the Strom Thurmond High Rebels lost to Palmetto High for the second time in the Upper State Baseball  play-offs by a score of 3-2.  The Rebels scored in the first and third innings, with both runs by Zach Green, to lead 2-0, but Palmetto tied in the fifth inning and won […]

Rebels Win

Rebels Win

The Strom Thurmond Rebels baseball team kept their march to a championship alive Monday night at Pendleton. Rebel pitcher Marquez Mathis secured his seventh win of the season as the Thurmond team defeated Pendleton 4 to 3 sending the Rebels to another “do or die” game against Palmetto on the road Wednesday.  Palmetto High School […]