Alamo Heights outside hitter Kylie Wickley was named to Prep Volleyball’s Soph 79 team, which recognizes the nation’s top high school players in the Class of 2022. She was the lone area player to make the first team and one of three to make the squad. Brandeis’ Jalyn Gibson and Carlee Pharris, both TCU commits, […]
Ex-Churchill hoops player Belen Cusi avoids pandemic, finds musical groove
Belen Cusi couldn’t sleep. Then again, that’s always been the case for her when it came to preparing to travel. But this was different for Cusi, a former Churchill High School basketball player. The insomnia wasn’t a result of the common anxiety that came with taking a trip, such as deciding on the best driving […]
New Braunfels grad, LSU had beach title dreams dashed by coronavirus pandemic
Hunter Domanski was walking down an aisle last month at a national warehouse store in Baton Rouge, La., with LSU beach volleyball teammates Kristen Nuss and Ashlyn Rasnick-Pope when the gut punch was delivered via social media. The NCAA, the governing body of intercollegiate athletics, announced on March 12 that it had canceled the seasons […]
How coronavirus upended title hopes, dream seasons and playing careers
Eight years ago, Madison High School soccer standout Jillian Martinez was an onlooker at a celebration commemorating an occasion she hoped she and her teammates would experience firsthand this weekend at Birkelbach Field in Georgetown. Martinez was a fourth-grader in 2012 when her father Larry and his teammates on the 1987 Alamo Heights soccer team […]