By Bob Sutton
Special to The Alamance News
Here’s a list of some area athletes from the Class of 2026 and their announced college destinations:
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From Alamance Christian School
- outside hitter Maci VanDeventer – volleyball at Greensboro College
- guard Selah Johnson – basketball at Averett
- Holden Yakola – golf at Guilford College
From Burlington Christian Academy
- catcher / utility player Anthony Valdez – baseball at Chesapeake in Maryland
- pitcher Cooper Kelly – baseball at UNC Greensboro
- infielder Lofton Gonzalez – baseball at North Carolina Wesleyan
- pitcher Cohen Payne – baseball at Greensboro College
- Kenan Kim – golf at Montreat
From Cummings
- jumper / hurdler D’Anna Cotton – track and field at South Carolina
- jumper / hurdler Diamond Moore – track and field at Jacksonville State in Alabama
From Eastern Alamance
- catcher Kayden Manning — softball at Campbell
- utility player McKenzie Blevins – softball at Barton
- setter Hannah Batista — volleyball at Averett
- midfielder Maci Link — soccer at Greensboro College
- defender Maddy Loranger — soccer at Brevard
- defender Aubrey Dial – soccer at Cape Fear Community College
- pitcher / outfielder Jarrett Newell – baseball at King in Tennessee
- pitcher Kasen McGinnis – baseball at Patrick Henry Community College in Virginia
- pitcher Zack Merchel – baseball at Robeson Community College
- pitcher / first baseman John Wittig – baseball at Rockingham Community College
- outfielder Tyler Westbrooks – baseball at Lenoir Community College
- outfielder Christian Vieau – baseball at Guilford Tech
- midfielder Logan Grimshaw – soccer at Patrick and Henry Community College in Virginia
From Southeast Alamance
- pitcher Ayden Brown – baseball at Pfeiffer
- forward Clara LaChapelle – basketball at Converse
- guard Shaniya Paylor – basketball at Wingate
- lineman Joel Samari – football at Barton
- defender Anthony James – soccer at Gardner-Webb
- setter Victoria Vazquez – volleyball at Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico
- jumper Spechell Carr – track and field at Meredith
- Kiyah Jeffries Brown – cheerleading at Barton
From Southern Alamance
- pitcher Nathan McNeal – baseball at Francis Marion
- lineman Camden Edwards – football at North Greenville
- lineman Brantley Messick – football at Chowan
- lineman Curtis Evans – football at Greensboro College
From Western Alamance
- diver Michaela Bentley – swimming and diving at Bryant
- Omar Rushing – wrestling at Ferrum
From Williams
- pitcher / utility player Bubba Sims – baseball at UNC Greensboro
- forward Colby Elliott – basketball at Catawba Valley Community College
- linebacker Nathan Williams-Medley – football at Chowan
- offensive lineman Cassidy Gray – football at Brevard
- runner Devon Joseph – track and field at Brevard
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