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Faith Academy girls basketball keeps busy summer with the goal of having a better season

June 23, 2025June 23, 2025 Jennifer Fierro#BurnetCounty, #Flames, #gobigred, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #keepthefaith, #LadyFlames, #marblefallsfaith, #TAPPS, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

CAPTION: The Faith Academy girls basketball team is playing in a summer league featuring teams in the area. The players are Madison Winsborough (left), Liv Kraenzel, Layla Terrell, Natalie Weems, Lilly Koziel, Jasmine Young, Selby Sanchez, Cuyleigh Zimmerman and Megan Burrows. Courtesy photo The Faith Academy of Marble Falls girls basketball team isn’t resting on what it has accomplished. Fresh off a season that ended in a Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools playoff loss to eventual Class 2A state champion Waco Live Oak 58-48, the Lady Flames have…

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Marble Falls boys hoops finishes league play

June 20, 2025June 20, 2025 Jennifer Fierro#BurnetCounty, #GoGetEmMustangs, #GoldStandard, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #hoops, #MarbleFalls, #Mustangs, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

CAPTION: Marble Falls juniors Charlie Martin (front) and Marc Barrios trap Llano junior guard Landon Magadance. The Marble Falls High School boys basketball team completed play in the Llano Summer League June 10 where the Mustangs experienced plenty of positives. Staff photo by Jennifer Fierro “I would say I’m pleased for sure,” head coach John Berkman said. “Summer league is always an interesting mix. Kids are on vacations or they can’t make it because they’re working. You give them opportunities like that in the summer. You’re seeing if guys can play…

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Marble Falls’ Kason O’Riley wins meet in professional debut

June 19, 2025June 19, 2025 Jennifer Fierro#BurnetCounty, #champion, #GoGetEmMustangs, #highjump, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #MarbleFalls, #Mustangs, #ncaa, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

CAPTION: The signs say it all. Marble Falls graduate Kason O’Riley (left) holds the signs that signal a terrific start to his pro career as The Royal City Inferno Track and Field Festival Paul Galas congratulates him. Courtesy photo Marble Falls High School graduate Kason O’Riley won the high jump competition of The Royal City Inferno Track and Field Festival June 17 in his first meet as a professional. He cleared 7 feet and 5.5 inches to set a new meet record and a new personal record. The meet was in…

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Marble Falls grad Kylie Roberts nominated for Community Hero

June 19, 2025June 19, 2025 Jennifer Fierro#BurnetCounty, #GoGetEmMustangs, #GoldStandard, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #MarbleFalls, #Mustangs, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

CAPTION: Kylie Roberts (center) played in the middle of the infield for the Lady Mustangs along with teammates Callie Phillips (left) who was a pitcher, third baseman Cheyenne Thompson, first baseman Sophia Biagini and catcher Jocelyn Suarez. Staff photo by Jennifer Fierro Marble Falls High School graduate Kylie Roberts is one of nine nominees for the Chicken Express Community Heroes award in conjunction with Dave Campbell’s Texas Football. Roberts, who graduated in 2025, is the epitome of community hero, according to MFHS softball head coach Alex Lozoya and Principal Patrick Hinson.…

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Burnet’s Bulldog Field gets new turf, track

June 18, 2025June 18, 2025 Jennifer Fierro#BurnetCounty, #dawgs, #GODAWGS, #gridiron, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #LadyDawgs, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #turf, #UIL0 comment

CAPTION: The new green exchange zone on the track and the new linemen’s lines on the new artificial turf are part of the improvements at Bulldog Field. Staff photo by Jennifer Fierro At the beginning of 2025, Bulldog Field was sealed off for improvements. Top of the list was to install new artificial turf to absorb the “shock” or kinetic energy resulting from a player falling on its surface. After months of labor, workers finished installing new artificial turf at Bulldog Field in time for the program to host its…

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Burnet Lady Dawgs making most of opportunities to improve

June 17, 2025June 17, 2025 Jennifer Fierro#bulldogs, #BurnetCounty, #burnettx, #GODAWGS, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

CAPTION: Lilyann Johnson (left) and Arayah Mabry quickly step in and out of a ladder that helps them work on footwork and fine-tune a pattern. Staff photo by Jennifer Fierro The Burnet Consolidated Independent School District’s athletic department continues to conduct its weekly summer strength-and-conditioning sessions for all of its athletes, including the Lady Dawgs. Girls athletic coordinator Crystal Shipley, cross country head coach Simon Hairston and other assistant coaches have been conducting the sessions for the girls. The program has 60 high school athletes and about 41 seventh- and eighth-graders.…

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Burnet boys basketball shows weekly improvement at Llano league

June 17, 2025June 17, 2025 Jennifer Fierro#bulldogs, #BurnetCounty, #burnettx, #dawgs, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #summerleague, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

CAPTION: Hayden Sheble holds his spot on the low block while he looks for a cutter. Staff photo by Jennifer Fierro The Burnet High School boys basketball program completed play in the Llano Summer League and new head coach Juston Weldon said he saw the Bulldogs improve from the first week to the fourth. “Summer league is getting a ball in their hands and getting them playing,” he said. “It’s not always pretty. As a coach, you take mental notes on stuff that you think can be fixed and how…

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Grant Freeman is approved as the new Burnet CISD athletic director

June 17, 2025June 17, 2025 Jennifer Fierro#bulldogs, #BurnetCounty, #burnettx, #dawgs, #GODAWGS, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #LadyDawgs, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster0 comment

CAPTION: Grant Freeman (left) is the new Burnet Consolidated Independent School District athletic director. Celebrating the moment with him are son Jaxon, daughter Jordan and wife Hillary. Photo by Martelle Luedecke/Luedecke Photography It took less than 10 minutes for the Burnet Consolidated Independent School District Board of Trustees to approve the hire of Grant Freeman as the new athletic director. The board approved his hire during a special meeting June 16. After board members voted and the meeting ended, they gave Freeman a standing ovation. Before the motion and vote,…

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Zach Wagoner is new Marble Falls Middle School boys athletic coordinator

June 16, 2025June 16, 2025 Jennifer Fierro#BurnetCounty, #GoGetEmMustangs, #GoldStandard, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #MarbleFalls, #Mustangs, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

CAPTION: New Marble Falls Middle School boys athletic coordinator Zach Wagoner and wife Lauren with their son Donnie (back, center), daughter Leah (front, left) and son Jase. Courtesy photo Marble Falls Middle School has a new boys athletic coordinator. He is Zach Wagoner. Athletic director Keri Timmerman announced the hire June 3. “Coach Wagoner has a great track record,” he said. “He’s excited to be around our coaches and develop athletes and make them more ready.” Wagoner worked at a middle school at Hays Consolidated Independent School District before coming…

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Marble Falls grad Kason O’Riley earns NCAA silver medal

June 15, 2025June 15, 2025 Jennifer Fierro#bobcats, #BurnetCounty, #GoGetEmMustangs, #GoldStandard, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #MarbleFalls, #Mustangs, #nationalchampion, #ncaa, #NCAAtrack, #Texas, #TheBroadPodcaster, #tsu, #UIL0 comment

CAPTION: Texas State senior high jumper Kason O’Riley finishes as the NCAA Men’s Division I Outdoor Track and Field runner-up in the event. Photo by Tyler Emanuel/Texas State Track Media Team Texas State University senior high jumper Kason O’Riley is the NCAA Men’s Division I co-runner-up after clearing 7 feet and 2.5 inches June 13. The NCAA Men’s Division I Track and Field Championships was in Eugene, Oregon. O’Riley, a 2021 Marble Falls High School graduate, shared the silver medal with teammate Aiden Hayes. It was O’Riley’s best result at…