NCSU head baseball coach Elliot Avent will be the guest speaker at the Raleigh Sports Club meeting Wednesday, Feb. 6. Avent has molded the Wolfpack into one of the nation’s best and most consistent programs.

Avent’s 16 years in Raleigh have created a legacy of victories and of individual and collective achievement. NC State has been selected as the 2013 Atlantic Coast Conference preseason favorite in a vote of the league’s 12 head coaches, released recently by the conference office.

Taylor Cesarski, a basketball player at Athens High School, will be recognized at the Student Athlete of the Week.

The Forks Cafeteria cater a Southern buffet starting at 11:30 a.m. at the RSC luncheon at Highland United Methodist Church, located at 1901 Ridge Road at the intersection of Lake Boone Trail, just inside the beltline.

Annual dues for the remainder of the 2012-13 season will be $30. This is 1/2 off the normal membership fee so that we can encourage visitors to join the “best sports club in the nation.

The weekly attendance fee remains $15 while guest fees will be $25 each. Pick sheets and door prizes will be held.