Pisgah (NC) athletic facilities flooded for the second time since 2021

The school's football stadium re-opened just last year after a two-year rebuild

Gary Adornato | Sep 30, 2024

For the second time since 2021, the athletic facilities at Pisgah High School have been overwhelmed by flooding, as the state of North Carolina faces mass devastation for Hurricane Helene. / Pisgah AD Heidi Morgan/Via HighSchoolOT.com

The devastation from weekend flooding in North Carolina, caused by the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, continues to mount. The damage includes massive flooding to the football stadium at Pisgah High School. The stadium just reopened last year after being previous destroyed in flooding in 2021.

According to a report by HighSchoolOT.com, the flooding nearly reached the top of the stadium bleachers, stopping just five rows from the top on the visitor's side of the field. Water also covered part of the scoreboard on the school's softball field.

Pisgah's athletic director, Heidi Morgan, told HSOT that the school's football, softball and baseball fields are a "total loss."

The school is prone to flooding as it sits just 25 yards from the Piegon River, which peaked at 25.86 fee, nearly two-and-half its flood stage of 10 feet.

The school played no home football games in 2021 and 2022 .

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Published Sep 30, 2024

GARY ADORNATO

Gary Adornato began covering high school sports with the Baltimore Sun in 1982, while still a mass communications major at Towson University, and in 2003 became one of the first journalists to cover high school sports online while operating MIAASports.com, the official website of the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association. Later, Adornato pioneered market-wide coverage of high school sports with DigitalSports.com, introducing video highlights and player interviews while assembling an award-winning editorial staff. In 2010, he launched VarsitySportsNetwork.com which became the premier source of high school media coverage in the state of Maryland. In 2022, he sold VSN to The Baltimore Banner and joined SBLive Sports as the company's East Coast Managing Editor.