The 2021 Cabarrus County Adopt a Senior event will be extended another week, through May 23. Matt Riggins, a teacher and coach at Mount Pleasant High School, started Adopt a Senior in Cabarrus County last year, and it has grown into something he wasnât quite expecting. âI saw someone else doing (this) last year in another county and basically copied it because I thought it was a pretty cool idea,â he said in a phone interview Friday. He continued: âI thought it was just kind of a nice way to spread some positivity and to do some nice things because last yearâs seniors and this yearâs seniors as well have kind of missed out on some of the traditional high school benchmarks. Like prom and last yearâs graduation being a big difference and partial virtual school and all this kind of stuff, so I just thought it was kind of cool to try to do something nice for them, and it kind of took on a life of its own.â