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Burnet girls doubles win district title again

March 30, 2024March 30, 2024 Jennifer Fierro0 comment

CAPTION: Burnet tennis partners Tatum Salinas (left) and Aly Van Zandt wear the gold medals for winning the 2024 District 24-4A girls doubles title. Staff photo by Jennifer Fierro The Burnet High School girls doubles team of Tatum Salinas and Aly Van Zandt repeated as District 24-4A champions. It’s senior Salinas’ fourth title and junior Van Zandt’s second. Salinas’ partner during the 2021 and 2022 seasons was Van Zandt’s older sister Annika. The two advanced to the Class 4A state tournament year ago. They lost in the first round. “It’s…

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Marble Falls tennis player Womack repeats as district champ

March 27, 2024March 27, 2024 Jennifer Fierro#BurnetCounty, #GoGetEmMustangs, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #LadyMustangs, #LadyStangs, #MarbleFalls, #Mustangs, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL, #UILtennis0 comment

CAPTION: Marble Falls sophomore Cooper Womack earns his second District 24-4A gold medal thanks to winning the boys singles tournament. Courtesy photo Marble Falls High School sophomore Cooper Womack is the District 24-4A boys singles champion for the second year in a row. Womack faced Lago Vista’s Reagan McLaughlin for the singles title March 27. The points were long as each player looked to set up winning shots. But Womack went to the offensive, moving toward the net and volleying when he had the chance. McLaughlin used the lob to…

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Marble Falls tennis begins district tourney

March 25, 2024March 25, 2024 Jennifer Fierro#BurnetCounty, #GoGetEmMustangs, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #LadyMustangs, #MarbleFalls, #Mustangs, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #UIL, #UILtennis0 comment

CAPTION: Marble Falls’ Sophia Trudeau will compete in girls singles during the District 24-4A tournament after capturing the consolation championship of the Taylor Tournament. Photo by Anna Womack/Marble Falls Athletic Booster Club The Charlie and Nancy Herrington Tennis Center at Marble Falls High School serves as the host of the District 24-4A tournament Tuesday and Wednesday, March 26-27. The first round begins at 9 a.m. March 26. Marble Falls sophomore Cooper Womack, who is the defending district champion in boys singles, is seeded No. 1. Teammate Weston York also is…

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Marble Falls tennis earns trophies from Burnet tourney

March 5, 2024March 5, 2024 Jennifer Fierro0 comment

CAPTION: Marble Falls sophomore Cooper Womack is finding new ways to win that continue to result in adding medals and trophies to his personal case. Courtesy photo The Marble Falls High School tennis team’s top players continue to add to their trophy cases after competing at the Burnet Tournament March 1. Sophomore Cooper Womack won the boys singles title while the doubles team of Landon Farris and Riley Stence took the consolation championship. Womack won all four of his matches. The 1st two matches used a pro-set scoring format, which…

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Marble Falls tennis continue preparations for district tourney

February 26, 2024February 26, 2024 Jennifer Fierro#BurnetCounty, #GoGetEmMustangs, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #LadyMustangs, #MarbleFalls, #Mustangs, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL, #UILtennis0 comment

CAPTION: Marble Falls sophomore Cooper Womack keeps getting better as he adds two more gold medals to his collection. Staff photo by Jennifer Fierro The Marble Falls High School tennis team returned with several medals since the spring season began. The Mustangs are working toward seedings for the District 24-4A tournament, which is March 26-27 at the Charlie and Nancy Herrington Tennis Center on the Marble Falls High School campus. Coaches take records from tournaments leading up to district to decide seedings. Reigning boys singles district champion Cooper Womack is…

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Llano says goodbye to one district rival, adds another in new football district

February 2, 2024February 2, 2024 Jennifer Fierro#HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #hillcountrysports, #LadyJackets, #stingemjackets, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL, #YellowJackets0 comment

CAPTION: The Llano High School football team welcomes Florence to the new football district beginning next season. Photo by Martelle Luedecke/Luedecke Photography The night before the University Interscholastic League announced realignment, Anna Green asked her husband, Llano Independent School District athletic director Matt Green, for his wild card scenario of who the governing organization of extra curricular activities might put in the same district with Llano High School. “Florence,” he said. “Because they’re in our non-football district. The UIL works in a pattern. (The Buffs) can connect to us in…

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New Marble Falls ISD athletic director Timmerman reflects on his first month

January 26, 2024January 26, 2024 Jennifer Fierro#BurnetCounty, #GoGetEmMustangs, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #MarbleFalls, #Mustangs, #Texas, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

CAPTION: Marble Falls Independent School District athletic director and football head coach Keri Timmerman. Staff photo by Jennifer Fierro Keri Timmerman has officially been on the job at the athletic director and football head coach for three weeks as the Marble Falls Independent School District athletic director and football head coach. He was approved for hire by the MFISD Board of Trustees Dec. 18, the final week before the school district took a three-week break for the Christmas holiday. He follows Brian Herman, who resigned the positions Nov. 7. Timmerman…

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Burnet CISD board president outlines timeline for superintendent, athletic director, football hires

January 6, 2024January 6, 2024 Jennifer Fierro#bulldogs, #Burnet, #BurnetCounty, #dawgs, #GODAWGS, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #LadyDawgs, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster0 comment

The Burnet Consolidated Independent School District Board of Trustees is gearing up for what may be a busier spring than it has ever had before. That’s because three individuals will be occupying offices they did not house during the fall semester: superintendent, director of athletics and school safety, and football head coach. Superintendent Keith McBurnett and athletic and school safety director Kurt Jones announced retirements, while football head coach Bryan Wood announced his resignation. Though McBurnett leaving the district had previously been announced, Jones and Wood’s announcement came Dec. 19.…

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Burnet CISD’s Jones announces retirement

December 20, 2023December 20, 2023 Jennifer Fierro#Burnet, #BurnetCounty, #dawgs, #GODAWGS, #HighlandLakes, #HighlandLakesSports, #LadyDawgs, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #TheBroadPodcaster, #UIL0 comment

After 23 years of service to Burnet Consolidated Independent School District, athletic director Kurt Jones said he is retiring from public education at the end of the 2023-24 school year. “It’s 100 percent my decision,” he said. “My wife and family and I have been talking about it for a little while. I was thinking this might be the right time the closer we got to this date. I’m 100 percent convinced it’s the right timing.” His son, senior athlete Grant, will graduate at the end of this school year,…

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Residents share the traits they want to see in next Marble Falls football coach, athletic director

November 30, 2023November 30, 2023 Jennifer Fierro#BurnetCounty, #GoGetEmMustangs, #HighlandLakesSports, #hillcountrysports, #MarbleFalls, #Mustangs, #Texas, #TexasChalkTalk, #UIL0 comment

CAPTION: Dr. Jeff Gasaway, Marble Falls Independent School District superintendent, reads a list of qualities before tearing the page to add more during the community gathering to get feedback from residents on the traits they want in the next athletic director and football head coach. Photo by Jennifer Fierro/TexasChalkTalk.com Marble Falls Independent School District officials sounded confident they would be able to meet a self-imposed deadline of presenting their recommendation on who to hire as the next football head coach and athletic director to the board of trustees Dec. 18…