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Marble Falls girls basketball announces new staff members

June 20, 2024June 20, 2024 Jennifer Fierro#BurnetCounty, #GoGetEmMustangs, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #MarbleFalls, #Mustangs, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

CAPTION: Marble Falls High School softball coach Alex Lozoya is joining the Lady Mustangs basketball staff. He is coaching the freshmen. Staff photo by Jennifer Fierro Familiar faces are joining the Marble Falls High School girls basketball staff. Softball head coach and cross country assistant coach Alex Lozoya will coach the freshman squad, which means Kaitlyn Goertz will coach the junior varsity and Aspen Howie is the varsity assistant coach. Howie, who is entering her second year at Marble Falls Independent School District as a teacher and coach, is on…

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Marble Falls basketball teams up with Lone Star Hoops for camp

June 19, 2024June 19, 2024 Jennifer Fierro#BurnetCounty, #GoGetEmMustangs, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #LadyMustangs, #MarbleFalls, #Mustangs, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

CAPTION: Lone Star Hoops coach Jan Jernberg. Courtesy photo The Marble Falls Independent School District boys and girls basketball programs in partnership with Lone Star Hoops is offering a week-long camp Monday-Thursday, June 24-27. The camp, designed for incoming second-ninth graders, is from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. at Marble Falls Middle School. Lunch is included. Both boys and girls are welcome, and the cost is $175. Campers do not have to be Marble Falls ISD students. Campers are split into groups according to what grade they’re going into. Lone Star Hoops…

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Marble Falls football hosts Jim Turner offensive line camp

June 18, 2024June 20, 2024 Jennifer Fierro#aggies, #BurnetCounty, #GoGetEmMustangs, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #MarbleFalls, #Mustangs, #Texas, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

CAPTION: Marble Falls football head coach Keri Timmerman and the Mustangs are playing host to the Jim Turner Offensive Line Camp. Staff photo by Jennifer Fierro The Marble Falls Independent School District football program is hosting Jim Turner’s Offensive Line Camp from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Saturday, June 22, at Mustang Stadium on the high school campus. Turner has more than 30 years of experience in the industry and has coached linemen on every level of the sport. He has worked for Texas A&M University as the Aggies offensive line coach…

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Vaughn tells why he’s returning to Faith Academy girls basketball

June 17, 2024June 18, 2024 Jennifer Fierro#BurnetCounty, #gobigred, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #keepthefaith, #LadyFlames, #marblefallsfaith, #TAPPS, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

When Harvey Vaughn and his family decided to move to Burnet County and he resigned as the Round Rock Christian girls basketball head coach, he thought he was done coaching. Shortly thereafter, he said, he discovered that Faith Academy of Marble Falls was seeking a girls basketball head coach. For Vaughn, it was a chance to return to where it all began. “All the stars aligned, and I’m excited to be back,” he said. “Honestly, I was pretty much done (with coaching). I’d been wanting to move out of the…

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Marble Falls boys basketball using the summer to pave the way to success

June 17, 2024June 17, 2024 Jennifer Fierro#BurnetCounty, #GoGetEmMustangs, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #MarbleFalls, #Mustangs, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

CAPTION: Putting in the sweat equity to be the best he can be is all part of Greg Lemon’s summer plans. Staff photo by Jennifer Fierro Returning a program to the glory it enjoyed is a months’ long process that takes time, dedication, patience and commitment. That’s what is before the Marble Falls High School boys basketball program and new head coach John Berkman. The program won a share of the 2022-23 District 24-4A title, its first in almost two decades. Rising seniors Garen Jones, Noah Lyon and Tidus Willie make…

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Marble Falls grad O’Riley qualifies for U.S. Olympic Trials

June 15, 2024June 15, 2024 Jennifer Fierro#BurnetCounty, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #MarbleFalls, #Mustangs, #ParisOlympics, #razorbacks, #sec, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

CAPTION: University of Arkansas high jumper Kason O’Riley, a 2021 Marble Falls High School graduate, is competing at the U.S. Olympic Trials later this month. Photo by Adriana Kitchens/University of Arkansas athletics Former Marble Falls High School high jumper Kason O’Riley is preparing to compete at the U.S. Olympic Trials at Hayward Field on the University of Oregon campus. The preliminaries for the high jump is June 27 with 25 athletes. The top 12 advance to the final, which is scheduled for June 30. The top three make the team.…

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Overview: why Burnet athletics enjoys record-breaking year

June 14, 2024June 14, 2024 Jennifer Fierro#Burnet, #BurnetCounty, #dawgs, #GODAWGS, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #LadyDawgs, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

Editor’s Note: This is the second of a two-part series. Read part one here. Winning nine district titles in a single school year doesn’t happen just because of incredible talent and tremendous coaches. That’s the word from Kurt Jones, who retired as the Burnet Consolidated Independent School District athletic director after the 2023-24 school year. Jones had been on staff for two decades as an assistant football coach on former head coach Bob Shipley’s staff before being promoted to defensive coordinator and head coach. Jones stepped down as football head…

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Coaches explain the UIL playoff changes

June 13, 2024June 13, 2024 Jennifer Fierro#Burnet, #BurnetCounty, #dawgs, #GODAWGS, #GoGetEmMustangs, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #jackets, #LadyDawgs, #LadyJackets, #LadyMustangs, #Llano, #MarbleFalls, #Mustangs, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL, #YellowJackets0 comment

CAPTION: The 2022-23 Marble Falls High School girls basketball team of Kenadie Cotton (front row, left), Emma Bindseil, Lilly Nesrsta, Emma Koziel, Hailie Rangel, Avie Nail, Alyssa Berkman Tea Rodriguez; Bethany Fry (back row, left), Kylie Roberts, Lexie Edwards and Mackenzie Farmer are bi-district champions and began preparing for the next contest, the area game. That game is in question with the new amendment approved by the University Interscholastic League’s Legislative Council. File photo Editor’s Note: This is the first of a two-part series. The University Interscholastic League made official June 11…

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Burnet girls athletic coordinator Gates resigns

June 13, 2024June 13, 2024 Jennifer Fierro#Burnet, #BurnetCounty, #dawgs, #GODAWGS, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #LadyDawgs, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

Rick Gates resigned as the Burnet Consolidated Independent School District girls athletic coordinator, girls basketball and golf head coach June 10 to become the girls basketball head coach at Burkburnett High School. He’ll also be an assistant track and field coach. Gates is the latest coach to turn in his Kelly green. Kurt Jones retired as the school district’s safety and athletic director, while Bryan Wood resigned to keep a promise to Ben Speer, his defensive coordinator. That promise was to resign and “do everyting I can” to help Speer…

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Players invited to open courts hosted by Marble Falls tennis

June 12, 2024June 12, 2024 Jennifer Fierro#BurnetCounty, #GoGetEmMustangs, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #MarbleFalls, #Mustangs, #netters, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

Area tennis players are invited to participate matches each Tuesday and Thursday beginning at 7 p.m. at the Charlie and Nancy Herrington Tennis Center on the Marble Falls High School campus. Head coach Samuel Whitley has been opening the facility since the 2023-24 school year ended and has been encouraged by the number of athletes who are playing. “Pretty much it’s open to anyone who wants to come,” he said. “We’re getting high school and middle school players and a lot of incoming freshman girls. Probably at least six courts…