Watch "By & About 757," a show for teens, by teens from Cox Communications and The Virginian-Pilot's 757: Teens Cover the Code section. Check out the latest episode in which gold-medal Olympian LeShawn Merritt and several Hampton Roads teenagers who met the Dalai Lama are interviewed. The show airs on Saturdays at 3:30 p.m. and Thursdays at 7 p.m. on Cox Cable Channel 11.

By Chris Jones Teen correspondent Consider your local high school's football and scholastic bowl teams. Although the football team starts conditioning over the summer, both seasons are about the same length. They both compete on a weekly basis through the Virginia High School League for the same number of regular-season matches.

Barry Hicks
Grade: 12
School: Woodside High School
City: Newport News
Age: 17
Unit: Peninsula
Length of participation: 9 years (2008 Boys & Girls Club State Youth of the Year)
 
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Four former correspondents have moved on from the 757, making new friends and new memories.
 
Hey 757!
I am having a wonderful COLLEGE life here at UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON in Ohio! It is far away from home - more than 400 miles! I thought I would get homesick. Well, it has been more than 12 weeks since I got here, and I have not been homesick yet.

Frank Rodriguez, left, a 2008 graduate of Manteo High School in North Carolina, voted early in a slow, yet manageable line. The first-time voter from Manteo cast a ballot for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama because “Obama has better views.”

- Nikki DeBrango-Jensen, 757 correspondent
 

By Keith W. Zirkle
757 Teen Correspondent
If you ask Chrysler Museum photographer Scott Wolff if there are ghosts at the Moses Myers House in Norfolk, he'll tell you: "I know there's one."

By Alex Lichtenstein
Teen correspondent
When voters in Virginia get phone calls or mailings from campaigns, they aren't seeing the work of presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain themselves. Instead, they get a more personal touch from grassroots campaigners, working out of offices here in Virginia.

By Elizabeth Freeman
Teen correspondent
PORTSMOUTH
Two Olympic gold medals haven't changed LaShawn Merritt.
The world-class champion still had time to share his Olympic joys with his hometown crowd as he was welcomed home with a festive parade, dancing and music last month in Olde Towne.

By Irene Bowers Correspondent   Kelsie Kellen isn't looking for magic to change her life. The 13-year-old disabled athlete won one of the American Girl 2008 Real Girl of the Year awards in April, and recently spoke to a group of students about being in charge of her destiny.