Jason Brown WVSPN Correspondent BECKLEY - Don't be surprised if you don't recognize Tony Giles. Sure,  He has been a part of two state championships and collected three all-state recognitions. Tony has just made sure to spread them out.  Giles is being recognized this year as the first five-sport letterman at Woodrow Wilson High School. Being raised in Webster and Nicholas County, Tony gladly puts the accomplishment in perspective.  "I don't think anything of it. It's just the way I was raised," Giles said. "At smaller Class A and double A schools it happens all the time. If it didn't, they wouldn't have a team." While a ninth grader at Park Junior High, Giles was on the Flying Eagles state championship golf team. When he finally made the move across town to the big school, he played golf in the fall, made the basketball team in the winter and split the spring between running track and playing baseball. Come that fall, Tony moved into the Flying Eagles secondary and had to forgo golf.  Ask Giles what he remembers most about his athletic career at Woodrow Wilson and you don't hear about his accomplishments - rather his teams.  "I'm proudest of our football team this fall," Giles said. "The fact that we had a chance to make the playoffs going into the last few games. "Of course the state championship in basketball my junior year on the varsity. We won the sectionals my sophomore year. More or less, it's not the games you play it's the friends you make."  This spring Giles has tallied a 4-0 record on the mound for Woodrow Wilson’s baseball team, along with batting .324 and stealing twelve bases. While impressive for the 9-1 Eagles, Giles keeps everything focused.  "Winning is the most important thing," Giles said. "Sometimes you'll see me getting frustrated because I'm not playing well. It's because I feel that it will hurt the team if I don't play my best."

While Tony nears the end of his high school career, he's not taking any time off. Last Saturday, he put plenty of miles on the car.  "So far this season we've won all of our track meets. Saturday, we've got a big one at Laidley Field starting at 9 a.m. Plenty of time for me to get back to our baseball game at Oak Hill which starts at three,’’ Giles said before the meet.  Woodrow Wilson finished second in the Capital City Classic.  Running across two counties doesn't bother the senior when you remember what he endured before.

"As a sophomore, I would leave school and have track practice for an hour and a half," Giles said. "I get a half hour break before baseball practice then another half hour break before AAU basketball practice.  "But those nights you get to sleep like a baby."