The sports programs at Albemarle County Schools are vacillating between triumph and grief as they come to terms with a big win and a major loss. The Monticello High football team won the Virginia AA Division 3 state championship in Lynchburg today, defeating Richlands 36-22 for the first football state championship for Albemarle County public schools. But the high would be deflated the next day as Albemarle High swim coach Kyle Wilson collapsed and died at a Sunday morning meet in Annapolis, Maryland, reports NBC 29. No word on the cause of death.
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