The first week is over and at the last time The ReSporter had a conversation
Bracken’s Warriors get Offensive
with Head Coach Lloyd Fields he still had all of his players accounted for.
That is a very important item when you are covering 6-man Football.
Having enough players can let you know if you can even field a team for many schools.
The ReSporter did catch up with Coach Fields and he seemed to be in good spirits.
The ReSporter: Coach Fields how do you feel about your team so far this season?
Coach Fields: “We are a work in progress….we have more questions than we do answers and that could make for an interesting things on the field.”
The ReSporter: Tell us what you see with your offense and defense.
Coach Fields: “We don’t have a clue about our spread offense yet, but we do have a good and talented group of Seniors. We had 15 guys show up and they are all still out there.
But we have 1/3 of our team that has not taken a snap of high school football yet and that will make it interesting for sure.”
The ReSporter: Let us know what you have with some of your returning players.
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Alumni looking good before the game. (from left to right, Casidy Riccio, Logan Nease, Alyssa Drum, Reanne Wagliardo, Marisa Ellis, and Katie Williams)
Canyon Lake’s Volleyball team won their first game on Thursday night as they took it to the Alumni Team.
After opening with a hard fought loss in the first game, the more fresher players were able to take the next two games and put the Alumni team to bed.
One thing you can notice with this team is that Senior Trena Lorett is very serious no matter who she is playing.
Her intense look on the court was intense.
Lorett had her serve down and served notice that this just not any game.
“I’m hoping with a new coach and a lot of new players that we can get to the playoffs this year,” Lorett surmised.
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Another ‘in the trenches’ player will be playing in his third season for the varsity and to say
Senior Lineman Justin Monfils
he wants to have a good season would be an understatement.
With this new offensive scheme you might expect many of plays will be directed to his side of the ball for a maximum chance for success.
Who is this player? Senior Justin Monfils.
Monfils stepped it up this off season, “We are working harder, Coach said that you need to put time in to play.”
“I want to be faster and I improved my 40 time from 6.1 to 5.6 while losing 30 pounds.”
That might translate into a quicker player that can maul you which would be a welcome for those running backs.
“I don’t feel that much different than when I first started playing on the varsity,” Monfils said calmly.
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New Volleyball Head Coach Kimberley Paisley will make sure you understand
Head Volleyball Coach Kimberley Paisley
one thing when you watch her team play.
That team will at least be ‘Consistent’.
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary would state: (a) marked by harmony, regularity, or steady continuity : free from variation or contradiction. (b) marked by agreement : compatible…
Coach Paisley grew up in Wimberley and played on two Volleyball teams that made it to the Final Four with a State Championship resulting for one of those campaigns.
We are not finished as Paisley also played on two basketball teams that also made it to a Final Four and was beaten both times in the semi final game.
Coach Paisley played Volleyball for Kingsville in college and had a major in Biology.
She then proceeded to Alice and started her Coaching career for her first four years.
Alice was also just starting a Volleyball program and finished last to being just one spot from making the playoffs her final season.
Paisley then moved north to Smithville for three years where she inherited a team that was 0-10 in district play to playoffs for the first time in 20 years.
Each move has allowed Paisley to get closer to Wimberley where her Dad still lives.
“I was ready to get here,” Coach Paisley said excitedly. “I was excited.”
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The ReSporter has tabulated this past season in District 27-3A team sports by school and as
Daniel Camarillo handing off to Doug Hubnik during the heyday for Boy’s Track and Field
you can see last season was not a banner year for Canyon Lake.
If a school finished first then they garnered 1 point and if a school finished last, then they would accumulate 6 points.
So the school with the least amount of points would be the goal.
Canyon Lake is still looking for their first District 27-3A Title in any sport as their best finish is still a second place finish in their history. (Baseball ’10, Softball ’11, Boys Track ’11 and ’12)
This year the top four teams will be able to punch their ticket for a post season berth and if you used that same criteria for last year, then you will see that your Hawks would of only qualified in one team sport.
Football would of been that sport to qualify for a playoff if this new rule would of been in place.
In all the other team sports your Canyon Lake Hawks best finish was fifth place.
Last season in a word was not a banner year and as this new school season approaches, CLHS will have many opportunities to improve on that record.
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The Summer is over for the Volleyball and Football teams as both teams will
Coach Charley Drum prepares for his second year at Canyon Lake
start up another year of sports and hopefully a better outcome with their finish.
When The ReSporter heard that this new offense would resemble what Navarro Panthers run, then thoughts of having a longer halftime than an actual game with the Panthers were some of what was going as a possibility.
Think about a game where both clubs run with the ball over 90 percent of the time and you basically have a running clock throughout the contest.
This would give both bands more time on the field in actual game time for both schools.
Yes, that is an exaggeration but it still has possibilities.
When talking to individual players throughout this Summer, The ReSporter has sensed an excitement about what this offense could bring forth and those words expressed were also in that expression on their face as well.
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Believe it or not football season is right around the corner.
Drake Phillips is ready to make a difference this season.
The NFL has started practice and your Canyon Lake Hawks have been diligently working out in Speed and Strength sessions for the last few weeks.
As is The ReSporter’s habit, the first article will be dedicated to the trenches and the offensive line.
This year will have a special emphasis on this unit as these students will be preparing for a different offensive scheme which will require more snaps and an run based offense.
The ReSporter will be having more articles as we will try to catch up with Head Coach Charley Drum and the other coaches for this coming season.
Senior Drake Phillips has been one of those players that has been a fixture each evening on the high school campus working on his conditioning.
After a season that many players would like to forget, Phillips seems to have a different resolve as his final year approaches.
“Yeah, I think speed and strength is big in getting ready for the season,” Phillips said.
There are some publications that have Canyon Lake finishing in fifth place behind Fredericksburg.
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The goals of the CLHS camp will be to foster a love for the game of volleyball while teaching proper techniques of the game. The camp will introduce all players to ball control, serving, setting, attacking and overall team play. The camp will be taught by CLHS head volleyball Coach Kimberly Paisley and CLHS coaching staff, as well as former high school players from the area.
When: July 29-31 Monday-Wednesday, 9am-1pm.
Who: Incoming 5th – 9th grade girls.
Where: CLHS GYM
Price: $50 (includes adult t-shirt)
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Marisa Ellis in a lineup of High Jumpers. Ellis is on the far left side.
Canyon Lake’s Girls Track Team will be a fun team to watch next time around.
There has been a couple of good classes that have filled the tank for this team and next year will certainly be an interesting group to see how they will perform on that big stage.
First things first however and The ReSporter would like to go ahead and jump right into that best Athlete for the Hawks in Track and FIELD.
Kind of already given it away with that ‘Jump’ right into an athlete that would be labeled as the best.
Marisa Ellis has to be a logical choice.
Ellis jumped right into State in both the High Jump and Triple Jump these past two years and has now scored 11 points in State competition.
Ellis raised to a 5’6 High Jump this past month as she was crowned as the best in 3A with that first place finish.
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The ReSporter will have just two more articles on our series on All-Time and Spotlight players for
Christian Dittman will be in the Spotlight
Canyon Lake sports.
Track and Field: We will start off with the Boys for this sport.
The All-Time Athlete will be Jordan Anderson. The ReSporter needed to come out with that honor fast since Anderson was very fast.
Anderson during his Junior year had some meets where he was worth 50 points when he got off the bus.
During his Junior year he scored 48 points during the District 27-3A Track Meet and missed placing first in the Long Jump by the width of his index finger which is what he could of used to signify that he was #1.
Look at these Records Anderson has with Canyon Lake’s runner-up in that event.
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