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Multi-Tasking
Fort Worth - Denton, Texas
The band takes the field for the halftime show. Its members are dressed in their traditional and formal band uniforms, except for Mark Fitz. He stands out. He’s in uniform – his football uniform.
Fitz, a junior defensive lineman for the Fort Worth Eastern Hills High School football team, doesn’t spend halftime in the locker room with his coaches and teammates. Instead, he plays the trumpet with the band.
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Anybody's Guess
Fort Worth - Denton, Texas
This was supposed to be a playoff preview, but with two weeks of district competition remaining at the time of print deadline, trying to predict the playoffs appeared about as simple as a quantum physics test. And I am not good in math. So, here is snapshot of the volleyball season down the stretch, along with some nuggets to chew on as the playoffs get underway.
District 3-5A
Burleson... More
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On Par
Fort Worth - Denton, Texas
The annual Bart Granger Memorial Tournament has a reputation – one it deserves. The two-day event is the largest high school golf tournament in the country, and arguably one of the most prestigious.
Paschal High School hosts the tournament each year. The event is named after a former PHS golfer who was killed in a car accident in 1997. The tournament has ballooned into a field of more than 250... More
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Lace 'Em Up
Fort Worth - Denton, Texas
GOLD DIVISION
Plano West finished last year atop the Varsity Gold standings with a 20-6-2 record, but lost its top two scorers. Back is an experienced group of seniors including captain Stuart Freiner (15 points) and G Chris Overton (4-1, 1-60 GAA in Varsity Silver).
Jesuit was second in the Gold standings but area coach of the year Mark Campbell lost all-time leading scorer Chris Schnurr. He returns a... More
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Texas vs. the World
Fort Worth - Denton, Texas
MANSFIELD TIMBERVIEW VS. BUFORD, GA
The Wolves scored first, but Buford scored more, as the defending Georgia 2A state champions posted a 42-21 victory against Timberview. The game was closer than the score might indicate.
Timberview opened the game with an 80-yard scoring drive, capped off by a 2-yard Eric Stephens plunge into the end zone. Buford answered, however, with a 2-yard run of their own to knot the game... More
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Tourney Time
Fort Worth - Denton, Texas
At this point in the high school volleyball season, teams are generally on a regimen of two district contests per week, as playoff spots will soon be decided.
Although the games are extremely intense, with postseason hopes hanging in the balance, the number of games played is a lot easier to handle, nothing like the frenetic pace of contests thrown at teams early in the year during the period known... More
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All For One
Fort Worth - Denton, Texas
It’s all about teamwork. That’s the name of the game when it comes to high school fall tennis competition.
While various schools’ individual tennis stars shine throughout the spring, fall tennis is focused on the total team effort. Carefully constructing their lineup, 5A and 4A fall tennis programs assemble their court aces in a way that gives them the best chance to finish at or near the top in... More
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Setting the Stage
Fort Worth - Denton, Texas
How could she have known she was being too modest?
Heading into last season, Kelly McCarter would’ve considered a .500 record something of an accomplishment. However, the coach’s expectations and those of her Weatherford players changed after the team won the consolation bracket at an August tournament in Abilene.
“To come home with a trophy was really big for them,” she said.
The early-season success was a... More
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Rebels Without Flaws
Fort Worth - Denton, Texas
It wasn’t the state title they are really after, but it’s a step in the right direction. The Richland Rebels shocked many in the high school football world by claiming the 4A-5A division state 7-on-7 title in July.
Many observers expected that Richland might not even escape pool play, and then the team again defied odds by winning the championship game without Phillip Gonzalez, who was named the tournament... More
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Playoff Putback
Fort Worth - Denton, Texas
Kennedale The only local team to advance to the UIL state tournament, the Lady Kats came within a game of winning the school’s first-ever state championship. Kennedale knocked off previously undefeated Corpus Christi West Oso in the semifinals to reach the title game. However, the Lady Kats got off to a poor start, falling behind 20-3 to the eventual state champion Canyon, which won the game 59-43. Still, head coach... More
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Meant To Be
Fort Worth - Denton, Texas
“I think it’s pretty exciting all the obstacles we had to overcome,” said Colleyville Covenant cheer sponsor Stacy McCrary when looking back at her squad’s title from the Christian Cheerleaders of America nationals in March.
The girls’ rise to the top was anything but formulaic. A squad from Covenant Christian Academy, a small school tucked away in residential Colleyville, had never even competed at the national level. McCrary didn’t... More
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Great in ‘08
Fort Worth - Denton, Texas
Only one game into the 2008 softball season, the Aledo Ladycats found themselves at a crossroads.
They had just lost 13-3 to Belton.
What they did after that loss made them one of the best teams the North Texas area has ever produced.
The Ladycats capped a 39-game unbeaten streak when they outlasted Nederland 4-0 in 15 innings to win the 4A state championship on May 31... More
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Rodeo Roundup
Fort Worth - Denton, Texas
Fort Worth is known as Cowtown, and that isn’t lost on this group of high school athletes. The end of the school year also brought the end of a grueling high school rodeo campaign, culminating in the North Texas High School Rodeo Association finals at Cowtown Coliseum in the Stockyards. Here are some of this year’s top performers.
Jake Snyder – Pilot Point
Snyder finished the season atop the... More
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Postseason Wind-Up
Fort Worth - Denton, Texas
Will Watson snared the throw and touched first base, setting off a celebration. He tossed his glove high into the air and rushed toward his Southlake Carroll teammates, who had formed an elated dogpile on the infield grass.
At the same time in the visitor’s dugout, members of the Flower Mound baseball team quietly packed their gear and offered fellow teammates embraces and words of reassurance. The outpouring of... More
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Raising Expectations
Fort Worth - Denton, Texas
“Honestly, we had no idea what to expect with this competition,” said Alicia Dickerson, who coaches the cheerleaders at Trinity High School. “We had never been there before, and we had also never traveled far for a competition.”
The competition was the 25th anniversary edition of the Contest of Champions, held at Disney’s Wide World of Sports complex in Orlando. Trinity had entered the small varsity division with a... More
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Taylor Hryorchuk
Taylor Hryorchuk is a diver and cheerleader at Southlake Carroll High School. Aside from holding several school records, Taylor is...
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In His Defense
by: Shawn Smajstrla
In all honesty, winning the state title just kind of went back and reiterated what we thought beforehand – that...
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