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How playoff changes may affect paths to stay in the postseason longer

June 23, 2024June 23, 2024 Jennifer Fierro#BurnetCounty, #GoGetEmMustangs, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #MarbleFalls, #Mustangs, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

CAPTION: The Marble Falls Lady Mustangs have been the most consistent program to advance to the playoffs during the last two decades, including last season when graduate Lexie Edwards and her team almost pulled off a big bi-district win against Waco Connally. Staff photo by Jennifer Fierro Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series. Read part one here. The University Interscholastic League will crown twice as many state champions in volleyball, basketball, soccer, baseball and softball as the result of its legislative council passing an amendment to…

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Burnet’s Jones, Llano’s Hays up for Community Heroes awards

June 22, 2024June 22, 2024 Jennifer Fierro#Burnet, #BurnetCounty, #dawgs, #GODAWGS, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #jackets, #LadyJackets, #Llano, #stingemjackets, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL, #YellowJackets0 comment

CAPTION: Burnet High graduate Grant Jones is the total package, according to football head coach Ben Speer. What he does on and off the playing field is why he was nominated for the Chicken Express Community Heroes award. Photo by Martelle Luedecke/Luedecke Photography Two Highland Lakes student athletes are in the running for the Chicken Express Community Heroes awards. They are 2024 Burnet High graduate Grant Jones and Llano High rising senior Ciara Hays. People can vote multiple times a day online. Voting ends July 1. The male and female…

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Attendance to Marble Falls summer workouts remains high

June 21, 2024June 21, 2024 Jennifer Fierro#BurnetCounty, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #MarbleFalls, #Mustangs, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

With more than 100 Marble Falls High School student athletes attending the athletic department’s strength-and-conditioning program, coaches believe the Mustangs and Lady Mustangs are “forging” a new road to success. The program, called Marble Falls Forge ’24, is helping athletes take the next step in their preparation for the 2024-25 sports year, so that when fall training camps begin in early August, coaches can install new schemes and add more to what is already knows. Athletic director Keri Timmerman said it’s not unusual to have as many as 120 on…

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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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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…