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VYPE Unleashed
VYPE\\\\\\\\vïp\\\\\\\\,noun:
1) Combination of “varsity” and “hype,” VYPE captures the passion and celebrates the lives and lifestyles of today’s high school athletes.
2) verb: The bringing together of the collective interest of the entire high school sports community through positive, family-friendly, high-impact coverage of high school athletes.
We love to spoil our readers. No other publication has given you, the reader, better access to the lives and... More 
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Three by Three - Ben Richter
Ben Richter has built an impressive resume in three short years at Kentucky Country Day. He plays multiple sports and is involved in several other activities.
As an incoming senior, Richter plays football, baseball and basketball. He is also the student body president and maintains a 4.0 grade point average.
Richter has kept up with so much because he believes it may be his only chance.
“Everything... More
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Three by Three - Lee Kirschgessner
Lee Kirschgessner is more than the average triple threat. While he can shoot, pass and dribble, he is also a threat in a number of other areas.
Kirschgessner, an incoming senior at Borden High School in Memphis, Indiana, is also a varsity lettered track, cross country and basketball athlete. Kirschgessner is a member of the golf team as well, “as a way to relax between meets and games,” he... More
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Three by Three - Krista Adams
Krista Adams had just returned from a weekend softball tournament in Ohio with the Louisville Stunners and was preparing for a week-long vacation when VYPE caught up with her. As a three-sport athlete, her days are mostly filled with one sport or another. “I’m really athletic and real competitive, so it just fits my personality,” she says.
Once a member of many teams, the demands of high school have... More
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7 on 7
“Spring football and 7 on 7 are two things that brought football to a level it’s never been before in Kentucky,” says Bob Redman, the head football coach at Male High School.
The University of Louisville holds a tournament every year that attracts teams from around Kentucky as well as other states. Greg Nord, who organized the U of L tournament this year, held June 7th, said his... More
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In the H2O Zone
Run faster. Jump higher. Throw harder. Simple, natural, physical tasks we all learned as kids.
Swim faster? Now that takes a different talent: talent to learn and master the proper techniques in a foreign environment; talent for enduring long, grueling hours in the water; talent for enduring pain.
“But pain is a good thing,” Lakeside Seahawks Swim Club coach Mike DeBoor says with a wry smile--a smile... More
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The Village of Louisville
It all begins with a gentle jog. Slowly, the athlete picks up speed, wiping sweat from his brow as he rounds each turn of the track. His swift feet pound the pavement as the late afternoon sun beats down on the steaming asphalt track.
This could be the scene at any track practice, but this runner can barely tie his own running shoes. At five years old, Steven... More
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Super Six
Gerwan Brewer – Valley High School
Try finding Gerwan Brewer on the football field, it isn't easy.
That's because he's always moving around. Every now and then you'll catch a glimpse of a blur--it's most likely Brewer.
On the offense he might be at running back one play, then at wide receiver the next. You’ll also see him at defensive back for a while, then... More
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Full Contact Player
Randy Roberts: Senior, Southern High School
GPA: 3.3
Stats: 5’7”, 145 lbs
Sports: quarterback in football; point guard in basketball; 2nd baseman/pitcher in baseball.
Ask Randy which sport he prefers and you’ll get a nod and a wink along with, “I love’em all.”
Ask his coaches what he means to their teams and it starts to sound like Groundhog Day. David Burns, currently Southern’s Athletic Director and... More
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In the Footsteps of Success
For the last four years there have been two certainties every spring in Floyds Knobs.
One, the parking lot of Berry Twist, a local drive-up ice cream shop, will be packed. And two, the Floyd Central boys' golf team will contend for a state title.
This year, though, the Highlanders--the two-time defending Indiana state champs--have had a higher hill to climb. That's because Floyd Central, a... More
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Flying High
The rings menacingly sway back and forth. A teammate reaches out to steady them. Within seconds, sixteen-year-old Parker Raque is ready to defy gravity. With legs held perfectly still and his entire weight supported by only the muscles in his arms, this teenage gymnast doesn’t even break a sweat. A few more moves, a few more ups and downs, and then Raque frees his hands and flips his way onto... More
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Aiming for Scholarship
It wasn’t top of her mind at age 12, but that’s when Morgan Springer set out on her path to earn a college athletic scholarship as a volleyball player at the University of Mississippi. According to her mom, Cindy, Morgan began playing on teams in KIVA (Kentucky Indiana Volleyball Academy) when she was 11.
“We never thought about college until she got to high school,” says Cindy, who estimates... More
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A Fairy Tale in High Tops
This is a fairy tale in high tops. And Louisville’s Tia Gibbs is living it.
She just can’t remember the best part of the story.
Kentucky’s reigning Miss Basketball says she has almost no memory of Butler High School’s single-point victory over Franklin-Simpson in the final game of the Girls’ Kentucky High School Basketball Tournament.
“I don’t remember much,” recalled Gibbs two months after her Butler... More
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Hot Shots
It has been away for four years.
Now the Kentucky Junior Men’s Air Pistol Championship trophy is back in the trophy case at Shawnee High School, and it has Adam Mason’s name on it. The cadet Chief Petty Officer in the Naval JROTC unit and junior student at Shawnee won the 2008 Junior State Air Pistol Championship, bringing the travelling trophy back to Shawnee four years after losing it... More
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Power Up
After Ballard’s 12-2 loss to Lexington Catholic in the 2006 Kentucky Lacrosse Association High School Boys’ Division 1 semifinals, Bruins head coach Jay Johnson privately offered a few hopeful words to sophomores Paul Fischer and David Spielberg.
“He told us that he’d take us to the state championship game when we were seniors,” Fischer recalls.
Within a year, however, Johnson had left the team without coaching another game, and the... More
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A collection of this month's best action photos.
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Quality Bloodlines
by: Beth Bush
In Thoroughbred racehorses, owners hope that success will be transferred down the bloodlines. It has been so for a well-bred...
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