Running a track or throwing a ball might seem easy for some students, but for others, working up the courage or energy to hit a softball can be challenging. Students in the Champions Academy prove...
Load the weights, hit the chalk, and get to work. The mindset is that everything is lightweight. Months of training, sore muscles, and ripped calluses have prepared these boys one of the most important...
Defeat will not steal their focus. Defeat will not take this team.
Each victory they secure reminds them of the sweat they spent during hours of practice under the burning sun, the energy they put...
The inexplicable often leads to questions and uncertainty. A sudden noise in the deep darkness that follows the night into the late hours of the day will cause a person’s heart to race. The restless...
Bottom of the 7th, tied ball game against the Grand Oaks Grizzlies, one last goal to “answer back” and win it all. Mazzlyn Heyer is up to bat, The pitch is sent. She makes contact. She’s running...
It’s Friday night and the first game of her high school career. For years she has dreamed of playing high school basketball and tonight is her chance to enter the team with a bang. The stands are full....
After 153 days of football season, all of the hard work, big plays, and bigger hits have all condensed into one greatly anticipated game, the Super Bowl. This game, watched by over 100 million people,...
The opportunity to represent oneself at the state championship in any sport is something that people dream of doing. The road building up to it is a hard road, but it is very rewarding with the sense of...
As seniors line up to take their first steps toward the signing table, emotions and memories begin to flood through. Different goals and dreams were accomplished by these young student athletes, and...
With the bases loaded and the game on the line, who else to be up to bat but Lainey Niederhofer? As she locks on the pitch and delivers a monstrous hit to left field, she sends the opposing team packing.
Softball...
Students buzz with excitement as flyers posted in the hallways read of a new sports team. Male students have expressed an interest in playing volleyball, and Coaches Stephanie Shelly and Megan Storms have...
Playing under the Friday night lights of Yates feels different for the soccer team this year. The team is more than a team. The mutual respect and support they show each other makes the team feel like...
