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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 athletics finishes Lone Star Cup race in the top 25

June 21, 2022June 21, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#bulldogs, #Burnet, #BurnetCounty, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #LadyDawgs, #lonestarcup, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

The University Interscholastic League announced final standings for the Lone Star Cup races in all classes, and Burnet High School finished No. 23 in Class 4A. Athletic director Kurt Jones presented the results during the Burnet Consolidated Independent School District Board of Trustees meeting June 20. “I think it’s the highest overall finish for us since they started that (competition),” he said. “That’s about out of 230 Class 4A schools. We feel like it was a great year for us collectively.” In late March Burnet was No. 11 that included…

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Llano’s Golemon is inducted into CCCAT’s Hall of Fame

June 14, 2022June 14, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #LadyJackets, #Llano, #LlanoCounty, #running, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL, #YellowJackets0 comment

Steve Golemon’s contributions to Texas high school sports are numerous, and organizations are making sure they aren’t quickly forgotten. The Llano High School cross country head coach and middle-distance track coach, who died Oct. 19, 2021, was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Cross Country Coaches Association of Texas June 11. He’ll also be inducted into the Texas Girls Coaches Association’s Hall of Fame later this summer. “That guy had a fire and a passion for coaching,” Llano athletics director Matt Green said. “He was fully vested in…

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Marble Falls’ O’Riley finishes season at NCAA national meet

June 13, 2022June 13, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#BurnetCounty, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #ncaaoutdoors, #RoadToEugene, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster0 comment

Oklahoma freshman high jumper Kason O’Riley completed his first season as a Sooner by being one of 24 athletes to compete at the NCAA Division I outdoor track and field championships Friday, June 10. O’Riley, who was one of two true freshmen in the field, no heighted on the opening height of 6 feet 10.75 inches. “This is going to hurt,” said O’Riley, a 2021 Marble Falls High School graduate. To his credit, O’Riley didn’t offer excuses though some are obvious such as competing in front of more than 12,000…

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Burnet improves existing athletics facilities for more space, to conserve valuable resources

June 10, 2022June 10, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#bulldogs, #Burnet, #BurnetCounty, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #LadyDawgs, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

While much of the talk regarding athletics facilities revolves around the construction of the new activity center projected to open in February 2023, Burnet Consolidated Independent School District officials aren’t ignoring existing facilities. They include replacing scoreboards and natural grass and adding track lanes. It’s difficult to miss where these upgrades are happening when fans are at Bulldog Field. At Bulldog Diamonds, the baseball and softball fields are receiving artificial turf and new scoreboards. Originally both facilities had natural grass when they opened in 2008. The scoreboards that are being…

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Ten Highland Lakes Sports Insights

June 9, 2022June 9, 2022 Jennifer Fierro0 comment

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

June 9, 2022June 9, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#BurnetCounty, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #LadyMustangs, #MarbleFalls, #Mustangs, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

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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Texas Longhorns become first unseeded team to play for national title

June 7, 2022June 8, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#ncaabaseball, #roadtoomaha, #softball, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TexasFight, #TheBroadPodcaster, #WCWS0 comment

An unseeded Longhorns softball team showed plenty of one of the mottoes of the university — Texas fight — in beating Big 12 foe Oklahoma State in back-to-back contests June 6 to advance to the NCAA Division I national championship series. Waiting for them are the Oklahoma Sooners, whose players have made it clear they wanted to play the Longhorns during bracket play of the College World Series. What’s even more impressive for the Longhorns (47-20-1, 12-6 Big 12)? They have staved off elimination throughout this playoff run. First it…

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Marble Falls athletics trainer earns Doctor of Athletic Training

June 6, 2022June 6, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#athletictrainers, #ATSU, #BurnetCounty, #DAT, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #LadyMustangs, #MarbleFalls, #Mustangs, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster0 comment

Call her Dr. Stephanie Thompson. The Marble Falls High School athletics trainer earned her hood from A.T. Still University, located in Mesa, Arizona, June 4 for her Doctor of Athletic Training that culminated five years of dedication. “It was all online except I had to go for one week,” she said. “I didn’t have to sit down for lectures. They gave me the materials, and I learned them. They gave it to us, and we did it on our own.” In addition to writing papers and passing exams, Thompson had…

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Marble Falls High’s O’Riley qualifies for outdoor national meet

May 30, 2022May 30, 2022 Jennifer Fierro#big12, #big12outdoors, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #ncaawestregion, #sooners, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster0 comment

Marble Falls High School graduate Kason O’Riley continues to add to his list of accomplishments even as the venues have gotten grandeur and the stakes are higher. The 2021 graduate qualified for the NCAA Division I track and field outdoor championship thanks to clearing 7 feet and a half inch at the West Region meet May 27. O’Riley, who won the 2021 Class 5A high jump state championship by clearing 7-0, was one of 11 collegiate high jumpers at the West Region meet to qualify for the national meet by…