Sports

A very thin line

The adrenaline rush kicked in. His heart began to pump faster and faster. Soon enough the seconds turned into minutes. “On your marks guys; get ready, get set, go!“ The guy was screaming at the top of his lungs. This was the very first contest Hobie Mulstay had ever entered. It was an amateurs in-line [...]

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Run run as fast as you can

The girls track team is starting off the new season with a new coach. Dane Sulentic, the iJAG teacher here, is the new head coach of the girls track team. Track season officially started February 13th and there have already been major changes to the practices.There is no more time for joking around and the [...]

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A sports sacrifice

Some sacrifices are greater than others. For students in high school involved in athletics, one sacrifice is food. Eating healthy is a part of athletics so athletes have to try to stay away from some of their favorite foods that contain large amounts of sugar and fat. Senior Zach Doyle plays varsity basketball and knows [...]

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For the love of puck

Basketball, track, football, soccer and volleyball are some of the main sports that high school kids play now but, there are the few who play hockey also known as “the fastest game on earth”. Hockey is a team sport where 6 players from each team are on the ice. The positions are center, left and right [...]

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New coach, new rules

Josh Griffith became a principal for a k-12 school, leaving the boys soccer team without a coach. The one who made the cut was Matt Kennedy. Kennedy, who received his coaching license in 1978, has been the Waukee boys coach for four years and before that, he was at Roosevelt for five years. Now he [...]

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Football, basketball step aside

A highs school’s measurement of athletic success is undoubtedly judged by how many times their basketball, soccer, or football teams have made it to state but with the growing popularity of rugby around the state, it may start weighing in. Spring of 2011 was Hoover’s first official season of rugby. A roster of 10 and [...]

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