Madisyn Jones put on her volleyball uniform, the first step on a day that could provide a blueprint of how the landscape of high school athletics in Texas might forever be altered. Jones then ate two tacos, grabbed a canister with water and left her home for the Boerne High School gymnasium. It was around […]
On a Friday in late March, the National Women’s Soccer League — like several other professional sports associations in the United States before it — announced an indefinite suspension to the start of its season over safety concerns surrounding a coronavirus pandemic. NWSL, looking to build off a wave of momentum sparked by the U.S. […]
For Boerne Champion High School volleyball player Marissa Drange, it was set up to be her shining moment. She would’ve had a national stage to display her skills and abilities to college coaches from all over, hoping to grab both their attention and scholarship offers. The opportunity, though, never truly materialized. The venues where Drange […]
Colleen Konetzke, like many Americans, was adhering to shelter-in-place guidelines at her home in Houston in mid-March, working remotely while taking precautions against the threat of a coronavirus pandemic. On one Thursday evening, Konetzke was on her computer when a co-worker’s e-mail arrived. The message sought assistance in helping Houston-area medical personnel and restaurants affected […]
The cell phone buzzed once, twice, and a third time, awakening Clayton King on a Wednesday morning in mid-April. King, a standout golfer and graduate of Uvalde High School, tried to tune out the sound. But when it was unrelenting, he concluded the alerts likely signified something serious. “I didn’t really figure out why my […]
Krystle Brydon understood what she was getting herself into. Brydon, a former Clark High School volleyball standout, knew the inherent danger of being an emergency room nurse. She grasped the long hours, chaos, panic, distress and even death. And she didn’t blink. Brydon, 34, is currently on a 13-week assignment as a traveling ER nurse […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]