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Jeff Olson and Heidi Asbury’s tennis team had no intention of wasting the first sunny day they have played under during this season. “She’s meant a lot”.

“I am very happy with the way we played, Dowling was a state qualifier previous year and they surprised a lot of people by qualifying for state but a lot of those girls have the experience of playing in a state tournament”, he said.

“It honestly wasn’t even on my mind before the race, but once I started running and I heard my times being yelled out I knew I could do it”, Thompson said. Not only the best in Iowa but the best I can be.

She said being a divisional champion a year ago “was special.” Ending her prep career as a state champion would be super special for any senior. “She is also one of the hardest working athletes that I have coached”. “Some of our other girls are definitely going to be able to work and get their scores down quickly when they have a few less putts”. “It’s good to see him be successful and try new events”.

“We want the snow to go”, she said.

Though the experience is pretty much universal, I know that doesn’t make it any less lonely to go through.

Q: What are your immediate goals for track? Without her, I wouldn’t be the athlete I am today.

“That is nothing against anyone in the state”.

“I think I’ve been consistent at all my meets”, Smith said.

“Shes quiet, shes warming up to me, ” Lundeen said of Harlan. We have a bunch of kids in the lineup that are risky.

Sieperda was hardly sitting on the couch watching it snow this winter.

Fritz finished her career at JCHS by leading the Lady Patriots to a District 2-AAA Championship and Region 1-AAA runner-up finish her senior season.

“It really creates a great community of student-athletes who are also Christ followers, and allows us to support each other”, Merzbacher said.

“There’s no easy games in this league”, said Wellens.

“A lot of attention will be placed on people saying “we can do this, we can do that”, but I’m the same as I have been from day one this year”. While it may not be the way for all athletes it serves a significant goal for him.

“For us to do what we want to do as a team, it’s not only going to take the guys at the front end, but it’s going to take each position to make sure that they pull their weight”, Lauterbach said.

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“You’re very air-aware as a gymnast”, McLaughlin said.

Sophomore Mitchell Pascarella shut the door with a great fastball, pitching the last two innings, tallying three strikeouts while only giving up one free pass. He wouldn’t mind a repeat of last season when he captured both the 1,600 and 3,200 titles in meet-record times of in 4:19.49 and 9:22.77, respectively.

“Our offense has been so dominant all year”, Sims said. MHS won the dual 201-252 to start the season. Looking forward to doing it again this year. Shes good at staying aggressive and has good ground strokes.”.

A lower back condition has hampered her athletic career but she’s had a strong senior season in sports thus far.

On a pleasant afternoon and early evening, Shuble racked up first-place finishes in the 800 run (2:21.80) and 1,600 (5:33.94) – along with firsts by Riley in the 400 (1:02.61) and Jenny Noll in the 3,200 (12:04.60) – as the Slicers defeated the Wolves 109-23, but fell short against the Pirates 84-48.