SPORTS
Olympic volleyball is educational
It is not always a requirement to be a fan of or follow the sport you play at the highest level, but there are benefits to watching the best in the world.
Volleyball is a popular sport across the country with more than 400,000 high school girls estimated to play every year according to statista.com. Despite that large number of participation, trying to find volleyball match to watch on television of college or professional games would be a test of your cable packages inclusion of some niche channels most probably don’t even know exist.
Volleyball has become one of those Olympic sports a lot of people enjoy watching every four years in either the beach or indoor variety, but rarely watch any other time of the year.
Professional leagues are played oversees and college games are regulated conference specific channels on occasion.
Despite all of this, Americans still have reasons to watch volleyball in the Olympics in its second week.
The women’s indoor team lost only one game in group play as the quarterfinals were played yesterday. The beach volleyball team of Alix Klineman and April Ross play on Aug. 4 in the semifinals.
Watching a sport being played at the highest level when you have only seen it played at lower levels can open your eyes to what is ultimately most important or most valued.
In volleyball it is easy to see incredibly tall, long and springy players everywhere is pretty much a prerequisite along with being a ridiculous athlete.
Not every high school volleyball player can even hope to aspire to be one of the few who plays in college let alone in the Olympics due to their build or athletic ability. Still, coaches hope the small stuff they preach to their teams that are executed or done as second nature by the best in the world, can be aspired to by their players.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
Nocona got its new press box into place this week at Jack Crane Stadium. The old press box, which was in place for more than 60 years, was taken out in early June and moved to Indian Valley Raceway. The new press box was by the Southern Bleacher Company out of Graham. Athletic Director Black Crutsinger said they looked at a lot of press boxes and decided they liked the one at Lindsay High School and went with that model. Sean Hutson operated the crane from the Hurd Crane Service that put the press box up for Nocona.
Sunset native Cason Richey (right) and his team roping partner Beldon Cox from Weatherford repeated as the International Finals Youth Rodeo champions last weekend at Shawnee, OK. Richey and Cox won the previous year and were able to complete the repeat by catching three steers in a combined time of 16.6 seconds. Richey is expected to compete attend Texas Tech University this fall and compete on the rodeo team.
The Chisholm Trail Youth Rodeo had its awards ceremony this week, giving out plaques and buckles to the top competitors throughout the summer season.
There were four age categories with five events to compete in for the young athletes.
Along with the best results in each event, at the end the overall best cowboy and cowgirl in each age division was awarded as well.
The lead line division, in which an adult helps the young competitors, saw Rylee Stewart win the first in poles, barrel racing and mystery event on her way to win top cowgirl.
Hattie Snow got the fastest time in the flags event and Lany Shupak got the fastest goat time. Riggin Bishop got named the top cowboy in the division.
In the eight-and-under division, Whitley Goins won the top cowgirl and Trell Carpenter won top cowboy. Goins got the fastest times in barrel racing, flags and mystery event. Carpenter got the fastest time in poles and goats.
In the 9-12 age division, Sage Keck won the top cowgirl while Chisum Carpenter won the top cowboy. Keck got the fastest times in four of the five divisions. Only Layna Taylor getting the fastest goat time prevented her from winning in a clean sweep.
In the 13-18 age division, Tess Egenbacher won the top overall cowgirl award.
Kiley McCracken won both the barrel racing and flags event. Emma Strahan won the poles and mystery event. Hadlee Bryan won the goats event.
There was no top overall cowboy in the age division.
To see the times for the winners of each event in all four age categories along with pictures of all of the top cowboys and cowgirls, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.
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