Located in the east end zone of Sid Bryson Stadium are six monuments, one for each of Crest’s NCHSAA state football championship teams (1994, 1996, 2003-04, 2014-15). In what has become tradition, players cycle past each monument, paying homage to the program's glorious past.

Chiseled into each granite monument are the names of players and coaches responsible for those title conquests, a roll call which reads like a “Who’s Who?” of Crest football history. Shamar Finney. Chris Williamson. Brandon Spikes. Martray Littlejohn. Tre Harbison III, and the list goes on.

D’Various Surratt and other current Charger football players have long wondered what it would be like to have their names side-by-side with those they’ve looked up to for much of their childhood.

“A state championship is all we’

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