High School National Championship Week
The 2019 Mossy Oak Fishing High School Championship presented by Academy Sports + Outdoors takes place August 8 – 10, 2019 on Kentucky Lake, located near Paris Tennessee. Anglers from all over the nation will compete to earn their right at the top of the leaderboard after three days of competition. All teams will compete on days one and two with only the top 12 teams advancing to the third and final day. Follow along at www.bassmaster.com for continuous updates and daily results.
Two teams from North Carolina earned their right to attend this National Championship event through a series of divisional events. Each secured their advancement opportunity by being crowned as team points champs among their area division. Jeremy Dellinger & Joshua Lackey were crowned as Western Series champs while Ethan Gilbert & Cody Anderson gained the Eastern Series title. Congratulations to you four and we wish you the best in you championship quest.
Western Series Champs – Jeremy Dellinger and Joshua Lackey
Jeremy:
I have intentions on attending UNC Charlotte this fall, and majoring in some form of engineering. I am still undecided as to which. My favorite hobby is bass fishing, but I also enjoy riding ATV’s and 4-wheelers, all types of hunting, and shooting. My favorite lake would have to be Lake Norman, it’s taught me almost everything I know about fishing. My favorite technique would be targeting rock, and other offshore places with a walking topwater bait.
Joshua:
I will be attending Virginia Tech this fall, and plan on double majoring in mechanical engineering and economics. I enjoy golfing, playing basketball, hunting, and obviously fishing. My favorite lake would have to be none other than the lake I grew up learning to fish, Lake Norman. My favorite technique would be flipping docks with a jig.
Eastern Series Champs – Ethan Gilbert and Cody Anderson
Ethan has no other hobbies other than fishing- he spends every free moment out on the water (fishing multiple times a week now that he has his driver license). He plans to join a bass fishing team in college and pursue professional fishing as well one day. He isn’t sure where he wants to go to college- he just knows he wants it to be somewhere that has a bass fishing team. He currently has a 4.03 weighted GPA in high school.
Cody just plans to pursue professional fishing one day. He has no other hobbies and said “the only thing that gets me excited is when I have a fish on my line.”
Both of these boys eat, sleep and breathe fishing. It truly is their life.
