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Marble Falls grad David Morgan puts efforts into ventures, family, helping athletes play like him

June 23, 2025June 23, 2025 Jennifer Fierro#BurnetCounty, #GoGetEmMustangs, #GoldStandard, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #MarbleFalls, #Mustangs, #Texas, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

CAPTION: David Morgan (right) with his wife, Langlie, and their son Moose. Photo by Martelle Luedecke/Luedecke Photography Marble Falls High School graduate David Morgan still turns heads when he is on campus. The former Mustang receiver was at Max Copeland Gym for the signing ceremony of cousin Noah Lyon to Schreiner University May 14. Morgan, a 2011 graduate, made history as the first Mustang and University of Texas at San Antonio Roadrunner drafted by an NFL team when the Minnesota Vikings took him at No. 188 in the 2016 draft.…

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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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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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Timmerman named a finalist for state award

June 12, 2025June 12, 2025 Jennifer Fierro#BurnetCounty, #GoGetEmMustangs, #GoldStandard, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #Mustangs, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

CAPTION: Marble Falls senior quarterback Atreyu Machacek is one of two candidates for the starting job in operating head coach Keri Timmerman’s (center) version of the spread offense. Timmerman, who is a finalist for the Game-Changing Coach Award, is selected because he goes the extra mile in developing young men on and off the field. New to his staff is offensive coordinator Logan Simmons (right). Staff photo by Jennifer Fierro Marble Falls Independent School District athletic director and football head coach Keri Timmerman is a finalist for the Game-Changing Coach…

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Marble Falls’ Forge ’25 drawing more athletes in second year

June 11, 2025June 11, 2025 Jennifer Fierro#BurnetCounty, #GoGetEmMustangs, #GoldStandard, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #MarbleFalls, #Mustangs, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

CAPTION: Erick Flores leads the agility drill during the first day of Forge ’25 June 2. Staff photo by Jennifer Fierro The Marble Falls Independent School District athletic department’s Forge ’25 is off to a tremendous start. Athletic director Keri Timmerman and strength-and-conditioning coordinator Karl “Beef” Bielfeldt are happy with the number of athletes who are attending and the work they are putting in. Bielfeldt said 100 seventh- and eighth-graders and 235 athletes in grades 9-12 attended the first week. “From last year to this year, we’ve seen a big…

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Freeman set to become Burnet CISD’s next athletic director

June 10, 2025June 10, 2025 Jennifer Fierro0 comment

CAPTION: Grant Freeman will be recommended as the next Burnet Consolidated Independent School District athletic director. Courtesy photo The Burnet Consolidated Independent School District announced that Grant Freeman will be recommended to its Board of Trustees as the next athletic director. The district’s superintendent’s office made the announcement June 10. A special school board meeting will occur Monday, June 16, where Dr. Aaron Pena, the school district’s superintendent, will make the recommendation. Freeman is currently the Wichita Falls Independent School District athletic director and was recently named the Region 2…

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Faith Academy football tackles summer strength and conditioning

June 6, 2025June 6, 2025 Jennifer Fierro#BurnetCounty, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #MarbleFalls, #strength&conditioning, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster0 comment

CAPTION: Faith Academy football head coach Jay Silvers is encouraged by the number of Flames who are participating in the summer strength and conditioning program. File photo The Faith Academy of Marble Falls football team is planting the seeds for success for the 2025 season right now by giving up parts of their mornings to participate in the summer strength and conditioning program. That’s according to head coach Jay Silvers. “I’ve been highly encouraged,” he said. “Out of 20 players, I regularly have 17, who have been showing up. And…

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Marble Falls ISD’s Scales resigns

June 6, 2025June 6, 2025 Jennifer Fierro#BurnetCounty, #GoldStandard, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #MarbleFalls, #Mustangs, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

CAPTION: As a throwing coach in track and field, Richard Scales explains every part of the form and why. Staff photo by Jennifer Fierro Richard Scales has resigned as the Marble Falls Middle School boys athletic coordinator to take a job at Florence Independent School District. Scales said his resignation is strictly a family decision. “It’s solely personal,” he said. He is joining Florence athletic director and football head coach Robert Draper’s staff as a linebackers coach and head track and field coach and possibly an assistant basketball coach. Draper…

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Registration open for Marble Falls Youth Football

June 5, 2025June 6, 2025 Jennifer Fierro#BurnetCounty, #GoGetEmMustangs, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #MarbleFalls, #Mustangs, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL, #youthfootball0 comment

Courtesy photo Marble Falls Independent School District children in Kindergarten through the sixth grade wanting to play youth football have until June 13 to register with Marble Falls Youth Football and Cheer. Cost is $250 and individuals can register online here. Players will have a uniform fitting at 8 a.m. Saturday, June 14 and June 25, at First Baptist Church of Marble Falls. MFYFC vice president Eric Graff noted a slight registration cost increase because it includes the fee to participate in Mustang Football Camp July 21-25 hosted by the…