Featured Football Running Volleyball 

Ten Highland Lakes Sports Insights

Welcome to this weekly column where readers will find a summary of sports across the region and the impressions left on this writer. This summer has been anything but lazy for several sports throughout the Highland Lakes. While 7-on-7 football and basketball have consistently had summer play for years. other sports are stepping up to provide those same opportunities to their athletes. Case in point is a new version of 7-on-7 but for futbol or soccer, as it’s known in the U.S. Soccer fans are welcome to Mustang Stadium each…

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Featured Football High School Powerlifting Running Volleyball 

Llano and Marble Falls athletes to start summer strength and conditioning June 13

Llano and Marble Falls athletes are mentally preparing for the voluntary sessions of summer strength and conditioning that begin Monday, June 13. Burnet and Faith Academy of Marble Falls began last week, while Smoking for Jesus School Ministry started May 31. In Marble Falls high school boys will arrive first for their two-hour session that typically runs from 7-9 a.m. followed by the high school girls and middle school athletes from 8-10 a.m. Football assistant coach and powerlifting head coach Robert Draper said Marble Falls athletes will all be in…

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Next Level boys hoops features Marble Falls, Faith Academy, Johnson City players

The Next Level boys select basketball team was within seconds of a earning one of the program’s biggest wins. Instead a charging call allowed nationally-known Sky High, a squad consisting of players 16 and younger, to escape with a 44-41 win last weekend. The contest was part of the Lace Em Up tournament in Georgetown June 3-5 where Next Level finished with a 2-1 record. The Next Level players include Gabe Lopez and Tidus Willie, both Faith Academy of Marble Falls athletes; Roman Brown, Jamie Castillo, Cooper Cochran, Garon Jones,…

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