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Certain Assumption
Louisville, Kentucky
When you're a volleyball player at Assumption High School, especially a senior starter, you had better know how to handle pressure and expectations. "They expect a lot out of us,” says senior Whitney Craven. “Every team goes hard against us. We have to go hard back and work in practice trying to improve our game.”
Fellow senior Emily Hayden adds, "As you go up from freshman to senior, there's... More 
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A Ride for a Cure
Louisville, Kentucky
In 2006, Allie Deitel fell off her bicycle on Bardstown Road.
It wasn’t too serious. She stopped in a convenience store and picked up some band-aids for a few cuts.
But when she got home some time later, the cuts were still bleeding.
After a series of tests over five months to determine why such minor cuts would bleed so extensively, she was told... More
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Something in the Water
Fort Worth - Denton, Texas
Stepfan Taylor stands in the tunnel that leads to the home sideline at Mansfield ISD Stadium. It is an hour before Mansfield’s pre-season scrimmage against Mansfield Timberview, and Taylor is decked out in his black-and-gold game jersey but without shoulder pads underneath.
Even without the protective equipment, Taylor looks ready to rumble. The broad-shouldered, 6-foot, 180-pound tailback has gained a well-deserved reputation for running right at the defense and absorbing... More
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More Bite Than Bark
Fort Worth - Denton, Texas
One of the state’s best high school football programs over the last decade is located here in Tarrant County, but you may not be aware because it doesn’t always receive the recognition it deserves.
The Everman Bulldogs have made it to the playoffs every year since 1999, and won back-to-back 3A state championships in 2001 and 2002.
In district 8-4A last season, perennial 4A powerhouses Aledo and Stephenville garnered... More
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Long Road Back
Fort Worth - Denton, Texas
There aren’t many people alive who can say they have seen pictures of themselves dead.
Flower Mound Marcus cross country coach Steve Telaneus is one who can.
Oct. 26 marks the sixth anniversary of when one of the most popular coaches in the Dallas-Fort Worth area was thought to have passed away from a massive heart attack he suffered at a district cross country meet at Denton’s North Lakes Park.... More
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Forward March
Fort Worth - Denton, Texas
Like a general leading an army onto the battlefield, the drum major leads the marching band onto the field of competition.
Armed with their instruments, band members are ordered to fire notes and launch melodies as drum majors shout the instructions and direct their movements.
The eyes of every member on the field are fixed on the band’s leading officers, who are charged with the formidable task of keeping... More
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Hockey Without Skates...or Ice
Fort Worth - Denton, Texas
When most of us think about fall sports in North Texas, it is football for boys, volleyball for girls, and cross-country for both.
Golf and tennis have fall seasons, as do swimming and diving, but even they do not compete for the opportunity to advance to region or state until the spring.
One sport, however, has a rather long history in the area, especially among private schools, and many people... More
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A Season of Dedication
Fort Worth - Denton, Texas
Last season the Arlington Grace Prep volleyball team made an early exit from the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools Class 4A playoffs, losing in bi-district after finishing third in their district.
For the Lady Lions, that simply will not do. Like so many Grace Prep sports teams over the years, they are used to contending for a state championship.
Which is something they could again find themselves doing... More
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Starring Rockets, Jaguars and Valkyries
Louisville, Kentucky
Assumption is again blessed with a talented group of seniors. Coach Ron Kordes comments on his players’ strengths.
-Emily Hayden - Senior middle blocker who has committed to the University of Cincinnati. "Emily's a four-year varsity player...anchors the middle and is a great blocker...also hits a very good slide ball."
-Whitney Craven - Senior left-side hitter who has committed to Ole Miss. "Whitney was hurt most of last year, but... More
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Punishment or Pleasure
Louisville, Kentucky
Emme McAtee began running because she wanted to follow in the footsteps of her older sister.
Emma Brink was influenced by her parents,
Stacey Eden did it to stay in shape for BMX racing and Steve Mize started running because he wanted to fit in and make friends.
There are plenty of reasons to run, but there are only a few common denominators that some of the... More
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2008 Game Changers
Louisville, Kentucky
Taylor Hafling, Louisville Male
There are a number of reasons why junior goalkeeper Taylor Hafling is among not just the best players in the state, but in the country. To find out why, just ask his coach at Male, Damien Sweeney.
Hafling received deserved recognition when he was named 2008 Eurosport Kentucky Youth Soccer Association Player of the Year after guiding his club team, Javanon ‘92, to the US Youth... More
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Blazer Domination
St. Paul, MN
For the past three seasons, one word has come to define Class A girls swimming and diving in the state of Minnesota: Visitation.
The small Catholic school in Mendota Heights claimed its first-ever state title in the sport in 2005 and has held onto the top spot ever since.
“There’s been a lot of things that have gone into the success of this program,” Nate Linscheid, coach of the Blazers... More
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Back on Top
St. Paul, MN
While Apple Valley has been accustomed to its share of winning when it comes to boys soccer, not even longtime coach Chuck Scanlon was bargaining on the kind of season 2008 has been for the Eagles.
“Nobody thought we’d be doing this well,” Scanlon, who has coached the Apple Valley boys since game one in 1978, said. “I didn’t anticipate us doing this well.”
Yet, after losing 17 seniors from... More
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Sabers Vying for State
St. Paul, MN
For as long as most could remember, Shakopee has been a basketball school. It’s enjoyed tremendous fan support and institution-wide interest, while also rewarding the high school it’s lone state championship — earned in 2005 at the end of a six-year run of Class AAA-qualifying teams.
While no one is besmirching the Sabers’ roundball heritage, it’s been another hardcourt-contesting cadre that has kept the suburban school in the limelight lately.
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Mustangs are in full gallop
St. Paul, MN
Eleven months after its 2007 season ended in another state quarterfinal defeat, the Mounds View Mustang football team is battling through the 2008 campaign with hopes of galloping all the way to downtown Minneapolis for the state semifinal round in November.
“Our goal remains the same — to make it to the state tournament,” Mounds View head coach Jim Galvin said. “What we really want to do, however, is to... More
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