He might only be 15 years old but that’s doesn’t mean he hasn’t been dreaming about this for years. Isaiah Weber is the top qualifier in his age group for the CrossFit games in late July. It is the pinnacle of CrossFit and will crown the fittest man in the world, in several age divisions. Isaiah’s division is 14-15 years old.
Lauren Harris goes three for three in the Class A 400m. Sweeping all three years the event was held during her high school career. The only thing likely standing between her and becoming the first person to win it four years was COVID-19. The meet was not held last spring.
The four-star Burke linebacker is also a man to be reckoned with on the track, his home track. The state meet is at his school and Jackson won both the 100m and 200m races, leaving no question who the fastest Class A runner is in the state.
The Millard South Patriots are state baseball champions for the first time in just over four decades.The took the Class A crown by beating Millard West twice on Thursday.
Sarah Weber finished off the most prolific scoring season in Class A state history with a goal in the title game. It wasn’t just any goal, certainly, it carried significant meaning in terms of winning a state championship, but it was also the 100th in her high school career. Remember that’s a three-year career thanks to the pandemic.
Between the two soccer programs, there is a ton of hardware in the trophy case at Skutt Catholic. All with different years, until now, for the first time the boys and girls sweep state championships making school history.
Omaha South wins a fourth state championship in eight seasons. The Packers did it in a sudden death shootout 6-5 against Lincoln Southwest. The game was tied 2-2at the end of regulation in front of an estimated 5,500 people at Morrison Stadium.
Skutt Catholic will have itself a huge Wednesday of soccer. Both the boys and girls teams will play for Class B state championships and try to sweep the titles for the first time in school history.
The Class A state soccer semifinals took place on Saturday at Morrison Stadium on Creighton’s campus. Four teams remain and will compete for state titles next week.
With what Chase Smith endured this season, he would not have been a likely candidate to throw a perfect game. Only the second one in the spring in state history, but Chase doesn’t let things like that matter.
47 goals in one season is hard to digest, especially in a 20 game season. In just that short amount of time Sarah Weber has passed Lincoln Southwest’s Hannah Davis who scored 46 goals in 2017. The senior still at least one more opportunity to add to her mark and maybe two if the Dragons can win their semifinal game.
On the surface, you might think it wasn’t very exciting with the top seeds all moving onto the semifinals but that was not the case. The first day of the state soccer tournament delivered with a great match to wrap up the day. Creighton Prep and Millard South needed all of regulation, all of extra time and a shotoout to decide which team earn a result.
With the state track meet just two weeks away Dylan Mostek at Bennington is trying to make sure he is as strong as he can be with a chance to win multiple titles.
Averaging close to a goal a game in soccer is hard, real hard. Especially for someone who is playing their first full season at the high school level. Laina Souerdyke is a sophomore at Papillion-La Vista South and is this a totally new experience after her freshman season was cut short due to COVID-19.
For the first time, Werner Park hosted high school soccer on Monday as Papillion-La Vista and Papllion-La Vista South girls and boys battled it out in the Papio Derby.
Tyler VanDerwerken had quite the Saturday for the Bellevue West baseball team. He punched in multiple runs between two games and was behind the plate catching for a no-hitter and then a three-hitter.
Norah Sis is a special athlete, one who decided the night before tryouts she wanted to go for a sport, and then months later she won a state championship. That’s what happened her freshman year at Papillion-La Vista winning it all in the high jump.
He might be a bit under the radar which means the Ramblers are likely going to benefit in a big way from Saint Thomas. The Millard North forward almost started from scratch several months ago when the NCAA announced this year would not count toward eligibility, which changed the landscape.
Skutt has started the season 7-0 and a big reason is their goals against, a better way to say it is their goal against. The Skyhawks have only allowed one goal in those seven games. Ali Becker has been in the net and has stopped almost everything.
One trip to state is enough to make a lifelong memory but eight is a feat so high nobody would ever expect it. Lauren Baker at Archbishop Bergan did just that in her four years playing varsity volleyball and basketball.
In a game where it looked like Papillion-La Vista South may run away with it, Papillion-La Vista fought right back into the game, but Papio South eventually did take the win by a final of 7-6.
It’s a week that’s been in the making for years, as Hunter Sallis announces where he will play college basketball. That will happen tomorrow morning while he simultaneously celebrates his 18th birthday.
It’s a week that’s been in the making for years, as Hunter Sallis announces where he will play college basketball. That will happen tomorrow morning while he simultaneously celebrates his 18th birthday.
Jadin Johnson has been a tremendous teammate at Millard North. As a scorer most of his life, he took on a different role as the main ball-handler who did everything but light up the scoreboard.
There was a lot working against Britt Prince and the Elkhorn North Wolves this season. COVID was a challenge for every team but this is a new team that was meeting over zoom at the start, not exactly ideal.
With 3.8 seconds to go tied at 45 Evan Meyersick caught a pass from the opposite baseline at the top of the key, turned, drove and made a shot at the horn he did not even see the ball go through the hoop.
It is a weekend of firsts for Elkhorn North and Fremont, two teams that will play in their first girls state championships games. The difference, Fremont has been around a lot longer than Elkhorn North.
It’s only happened one other time in Nebraska girls diving, a four-time state champion. Megan Carter is the second to earn four gold medals and each year had its unique challenges. This one though in 2021 tops them all with so much unknown involving the pandemic.
An expanded girls basketball state tournament tips off at Pinnacle Bank Arena with six games. Four Class A quarterfinals and two Class B quarterfinals.
After a wild night of Class A basketball that saw four of the seven district one seeds lose, this is what we believe the quarterfinals will look like Tuesday March 9th in Lincoln.
With 171 points more than the second place team, Omaha Marian dominated the girls state swimming finals at the Bob Devaney Sports Center in Lincoln on Saturday.
Conor Knopik is one of the top ten wrestlers in the country in his weight class, 126 pounds, he’s also a two-time Class A state champion. One of four individual winners for Millard South that helped the Patriots win yet another team title.
Megan Carter became the second person ever to win the Nebraska girls state diving title all four years of high school on Thursday. The Marian senior won with a score of 511.30.
Maddie Clark is a decorated Marian swimmer, with three state championship medals. She won one as a sophomore and two last year as a junior. To build on those two special years she put a ton of focus into this year’s state championships. But it was a far different journey.
Marian’s swim team is in great shape headed to state next week. The Crusaders won the Metro Conference led by JoJo Randby who set a meet record in the 50 free at 23.42, which is less than two tenths shy of her personal best.
Nine Millard South wrestlers made it through the first round and quarterfinals. A very impressive number but it could have been more, five wrestlers did not make it to the semifinals.
Lexi Zeiss loves gymnastics, her coach says she’s addicted to it. 30 hours of training a week plus extra workouts with a personal trainer aren’t enough. Lexi practices at home and watches a ton of gymnastics as well, she simply can’t get enough.
Next week Cade Haberman hopes to wrestle for a state championship, his first. He’s been there before, actually twice but Cade knows nothing can be taken for granted. That’s why he is first focused on qualifying this weekend at districts.
Josh Dix is helping lead an Abraham Lincoln team that has hopes of going far this season. Dix, a 6′4″ shooting guard, is ranked as the top player in Iowa the class of 2022 by 247 Sports.
