newsobserver.com blog / Campus Notes -3/29/2010
An N.C. State student is one of the nation's top collegiate lumberjacks. 
Logan Scarborough recently won the STIHL TIMBERSPORTS Southern Collegiate Challenge, a regional competition. He will now compete in the national competition In Oregon in late August.
Logan Scarborough recently won the STIHL TIMBERSPORTS Southern Collegiate Challenge, a regional competition. He will now compete in the national competition In Oregon in late August. I've read this story three times now and I'm still not entirely clear what the competition entails, though from the fantastic photo you see on the left here, it involves some serious wood chopping. (Photo credit: ESPN) And it appears he clinched the regional championship by his deft handling of a stock saw.
According to this news brief from the NCSU website, Scarborough, a forestry student, barely missed advancing to the national tournament a year ago. Good luck to him. The national tournament will be televised by ESPNU.