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Nocona names new volleyball coach
Last week Nocona announced the hiring of new volleyball coach Kara Lucherk.
She takes over for Tanya Samples who led the Lady Indians the past two seasons.
Lucherk is coming off a season leading 1A Wildorado to the regional final in only its fourth year in program history, having started the program back in 2018.
“It was a little rough to begin with, but once we got rolling and the kids had some success, we just started there and it never really stopped and we got better every year,” Lucherk said.
She also has been the head girl’s track coach where Wildorado finished second as a team at the state meet last year.
Those lists of recent accomplishments as well as her references were what convinced Nocona Athletic Director Blake Crutsinger that she was the right person to lead the Lady Indians.
“What I was more impressed with was what everyone else had to say about her,” Crutsinger said.
Lucherk is a graduate from Poth in 2010 where she played volleyball and ran track. She later would run track at Texas State University.
Before Wildorado she got coaching experience at Hereford. Lucherk knew of Nocona from her days playing volleyball and was attracted program’s tradition as well as other things.
“My high school actually played Nocona at state the year after I graduated and I was at that game,” Lucherk said. “I knew they had a successful program. I am also looking to relocate in the Fort Worth area. Put two and two together and I like coaching at small schools so it just kind seemed like it was a good location and something you could definitely build on the traditions that are already there.”
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend 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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