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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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Health battles help Burnet’s Escamilla discover her calling

June 8, 2022June 8, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#Burnet, #BurnetCounty, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #LadyDawgs, #texanns, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #tsu, #UIL0 comment

Burnet High School graduate Marissa Escamilla’s health battles helped her discover her career path and how she wants to be a blessing for others the way her mentor, Dr. Jason Hill, has been a blessing for her. The 2018 graduate recently earned her bachelor’s degree from Tarleton State University in kinesiology thanks to being on a basketball scholarship. But the Lady Dawg battled numerous injuries throughout her four years playing for the TexAnns, none bigger than a back injury that medical professionals told her would require she wear a back…

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Bowlsby: What would help the Big 12? A better Texas

May 11, 2017 Jennifer Fierro0 comment

Big 12 Conference Commissioner Bob Bowlsby made a visit to the central Texas earlier this week. He announced he was meeting with new Texas head football coach Tom Herman and then eating lunch with former University of Texas President Bill Powers. He credits Powers, former Athletics Director Deloss Dodds, and several Oklahoma administrators for wooing him away from Stanford as the athletics director to take over the Big 12 as commissioner five years ago. “I’m going to thank (Powers) and not thank him,” Bowlsby joked. Since he became commissioner, the…