June 2022 - Texas Chalk Talk

Marble Falls volleyball league reveals the traits coaches want to see

June 30, 2022June 30, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#BurnetCounty, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #LadyMustangs, #MarbleFalls, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

The Marble Falls June Volleyball League ended June 29, and few people felt better about the last several weeks than Lady Mustangs head coach Kait Goertz. That’s because she could see her players improve in the key areas she was examining. And they weren’t all based on their footwork, passing and ending rallies. Goertz made it clear from the start she wanted to see her how her players interacted with each other, how they encouraged and corrected one another, and how they got along. “Especially the last two weeks, I…

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Marble Falls’ Harrington shares goals for middle school

June 29, 2022June 29, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#BurnetCounty, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #MarbleFalls, #Mustangs, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster0 comment

Doc Harrington made it clear he wouldn’t unretire unless the right opportunity with the right people came along. That happened three years ago when Brian Herman became the football at head coach at Marble Falls and hired Heath Hohmann and other coaches who where on Jerry Vance’s staff in Liberty Hill a decade earlier. Then when Harrington, who was asked to work at Marble Falls Middle School, outlined his vision to Dr. Chris Allen, Marble Falls Independent School District superintendent, and Jeff Gasaway, assistant superintendent, he discovered two individuals who…

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Marble Falls 7v7 soccer league does plenty for Burnet, Lago Vista

June 29, 2022June 29, 2022 Jennifer Fierro0 comment

The Marble Falls 7-on-7 soccer league concluded June 28 and accomplished the most important goals for coaches — giving their players opportunities to play and improve and the athletes taking advantage. Marble Falls came in first in the league standings. Other participating teams included Lago Vista, Jarrell and two teams from Florence and from Lampasas. All but Lampasas are in the new District 25-4A that will face each other in 2023. Lady Mustangs head coach Abigail Blunt created the co-ed league and invited numerous programs to participate. One stipulation was…

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Marble Falls’ Bales showcases talent at college football camps

June 28, 2022June 28, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#ASU, #bobcats, #BurnetCounty, #cowboys, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #hornedfrogs, #HSU, #MarbleFalls, #Mustangs, #roadrunners, #TCU, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #TXAMC, #TxState, #UIL, #utsa0 comment

The desire to play college football is why Marble Falls High School junior lineman Jeremiah Bales has been traveling to different camps. During the last several weeks, Bales has camped at the University of Texas at San Antonio, Texas State University, Angelo State University, Texas A&M at Commerce and Texas Christian University. At 6 feet 4 inches and weighing 323 pounds, Bales has the intangibles that college coaches love in linemen. But it’s his strength at the point of attack that gets people talking. Case in point was during the…

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Texas’ Fields gives Horseshoe Bay Sports Club look at marvelous career

June 28, 2022June 28, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#greens, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #links, #longhorns, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster0 comment

Fresh from guiding the University of Texas men’s golf team to a national championship, head coach John Fields was the featured speaker of the latest gathering of the Rudy Davalos Horseshoe Bay Sports Club June 28 and sat next to the man who has meant so much to so many — Davalos himself. Davalos, now a Horseshoe Bay resident and one of the founders of the local sports club, was the athletic director at the University of New Mexico when his counterpart at Texas, Deloss Dodds, offered Fields the Longhorns’…

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Four days of excitement to Texas Longhorns football

June 27, 2022June 27, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#aggies, #b12, #big12, #HighlandLakesSports, #longhorns, #sec, #Texas, #texasaggies, #TexasChalkTalk, #TexasLonghorns, #TheBroadPodcaster0 comment

In a span of four days, seven players committed to the Texas Longhorns football team and pushed the burnt orange to No. 5 in the class rankings. It’s a period that began with a simple tweet from Isidore Newman senior quarterback Arch Manning declaring his commitment to head coach Steve Sarkisian and the Longhorns on June 23. Since then, a firestorm of media coverage on all levels talked about Manning’s commitment to the Longhorns and asked the dreaded question fans have come to hate — does this mean the Longhorns…

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Social media group invites Burnet Bulldogs of all ages to share their memories, experiences

June 27, 2022June 27, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#bulldogs, #Burnet, #BurnetCounty, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

Burnet High School has had three different football teams play for state championships that are special memories for the players, trainers, coaches and everyone who wears the Kelly green. Those experiences is why 1988 Burnet High School graduate Randy Denton started the Burnet Bulldog Football Alumni page after attending a Bulldog Dads gathering with head coach Bryan Wood where attendees were brainstorming ideas on how to get more community involvement. “We want to get people excited and try to do things,” Denton said. “It was something we came up with…

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Ten Highland Lakes Sports Insights

June 24, 2022June 24, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#Burnet, #BurnetCounty, #Burnetcountytx, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #Llano, #LlanoCounty, #MarbleFalls, #Mustangs, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

Welcome to this weekly column where readers will find a summary of sports across the region and the impressions left on this writer. The end of June is near. And that means a real push for athletes to attend voluntary strength-and-conditioning sessions will pick up speed in July. Let’s face it — even I am struggling to do my workouts indoors with the air conditioner and fans blaring. So those athletes who use the last invaluable weeks of the summer to arrive fit for the first day of fall training…

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Burnet’s Maynard takes steps toward realizing his college dream

June 23, 2022June 23, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#bulldogs, #Burnet, #BurnetCounty, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #roadrunners, #tarletonstate, #texans, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL, #utsa0 comment

Several Highland Lakes athletes are using the summer to take a step closer to turning their dreams into reality, including Burnet senior offensive lineman Kaleb Maynard. He attended camps at the University of Texas at San Antonio, Tarleton State University and the University of Incarnate Word and will head to Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, La. July 2 with one goal — to earn a football scholarship. “Their coaches sent me an invitation,” he said. “They have been looking at me and my tape. All the coaches have been really…

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New sports districts show similar traits to Marble Falls MS

June 23, 2022June 23, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#Burnet, #BurnetCounty, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #LadyDawgs, #LadyMustangs, #MarbleFalls, #Mustangs, #ponies, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

Marble Falls Middle School will play in a new sports district that’s similar to the high school’s beginning in the 2022-23 school year. The football teams will play Burnet, Lago Vista and Lampasas. “They’re closer to us in who we are,” Marble Falls Middle School athletic coordinator for sports medicine and athletic coordinator Doc Harrington said. “I think this new district allows us to be on equal footing.” Middle school coordinators wanted the district to mirror the high school’s district that includes Comal Davenport, the new high school that will…