In 21 games this season Gretna only gave up five goals and London De Fini who to moved to left-back this season played a big part in the Dragons’ defensive success.
According to the seeding, both the boys Class A and Class B soccer state championships were upsets, although when looking at the history of the two programs taking home the hardware, they hardly seem like underdogs.
The Mavericks punched their tickets to their first-ever NCAA Tournament Sunday, after downing South Dakota State, 1-0, making Omaha Summit League champions for the first time in program history.
Former players, coaches, friends, and family celebrated 25-year Thunderbird head boys basketball coach Doug Woodard in the place that has been Woodard’s second home for the last two and a half decades.
Last week at the Kruger-May Invitational, senior J’Dyn Bullion did what no high schooler in Nebraska has done in 16 years: Bullion had a 200-foot discus throw.
Omaha Northwest’s number two singles tennis player Malak Ashbalu kicked off the season winning six of her first eight matches all while fasting for Ramadan.
After being named the 2022 Nebraska Gatorade Player of the Year and helping lead Gretna to a Class A state title, Gretna midfielder Brett Perkins is picking up this season right where he left off in May.
Friday is setting up to be a good one with Bellevue West facing Westside in the first Class A semifinal with Millard North and Gretna in the second game.
After over two decades of the Dotzler name echoing through the gyms of Bellevue West High School, at the end of this year there will only be one Dotzler left wearing their name on the back of a Thunderbirds jersey.
Only five years after getting into the sport, Ava McNeal became Lewis Central’s first-ever girl to sign a National Letter of Intent to wrestle in college.
"It's becoming more natural to me. I've been working for years now. So just to have this opportunity and be able to have it for three years is big to me. I never take it for granted. I just keep going and play in the moment."
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