Mount Pleasant Magazine Sept/Oct 2019

45 www.MountPleasantMagazine.com | www.BestOfMP.com | www.ReadMPM.com feature have homework, I have to set aside the time to do it before or after practice. I can’t just ignore it.” In addition to time management, Wando football quarterback and baseball center fielder Will Pickens feels that playing high school sports “is a great experience.” He added, “I think it has really helped my education. I love being a team player because it teaches you not to focus just on yourself. Others are depending on you.” At Palmetto Christian Academy, Mack Poston is one of those unusual football players who goes both ways on offense and defense “in part because we’re a smaller school.” Poston doesn’t anticipate playing at the college level but feels his high school academics have prepared him for a major in civil or mechanical engineering at a first-rate university such as Georgia or Clemson. “It can be hard to come off a tough practice then study for a difficult test,” Photo courtesy of Dale Hoover. Photo provided by Wando High School. Wando High School football. Palmetto Christian Academy volleyball.