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“Many of the girls newto tennis have had exten-sive experience in othersports and this alwayshelps them pick up demand-ing tennis skills,” Lawrencesaid.

Those players includePia Peredia, Kazia Hart, Be-thany Buchnoff, Liz Egg-leston, Simone Radliff,Robin Meister and KaitlenKrusen.

“We missed the playoffslast year for the first time inmany years, so we definitlywant to get back into that

mix. And with our group ofreturning players weshould definitely competefor the league title thisyear,” Lawrence said. “Sier-ra will probably be theleague favorite. Until some-one beats them they arethe favorites to repeat forleague title.”

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GOLF: Team will pushhard to reach successunder 71 at area to qualifyfor the Valley IndividualChampionship.

This season’s team isled by Kirsten, AmandaRudd and Jordon Keyser.All three individuals hadfull golf schedules thissummer.

“So far in this early sea-son all three girls have con-sistently shot under 40,”Oetinger said. “Along withthe top three ladies, Racha-el Hernandez has playedvery well and is also man-aging a very difficult aca-demic schedule.

“These girls will push

each other all year and willonly make our team bet-ter.”

On top of the outstand-ing play by the top fourgirls, there is a solid groupof girls that are challeng-ing each week for the fiveand six spots. Mari Mober-ly, Brianna Smith, KristenEmerick and AshtonMearse are working hardto become consistent play-ers.

“We have two brand-new players, MarishaBrooks and Maggie Brew-er,” Oetinger said. “Mar-isha is a first-year playerworking hard to develop

her game. Maggie is an up-and-coming freshman thathas learned quickly.”

To date, the team wasscheduled to play Selma atRidgecreek but the Bearsfailed to show.

“We played a practiceround and Rudd was ourlow golfer with a score of38,” Oetinger said. “Jordonwas second with a 43 andKirsten and Rachael tied at46.”

“This team is highly mo-tivated and has made it agoal to reach the CIF finalsagain,” Oetinger said. “Thisteam is the most well-rounded ladies team thatwe have had at Yosemite.”


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Pat Lynch

Mustangs sports will befull of firsts, new AD says

Forcing a team attitude

Pat Lynch, a 1987 graduate ofYosemite High School, was hired on as JVcoach in 1991 and coached boy’s basket-ball at Yosemite for nine years — froshfour years and JV five years. Now he willcoach the first frosh/soph team.

Lynch graduated from Fresno StateUniversity in 1993 with a degree in physi-cal education and human performance.

“This will be as challenging a year asour JV football team will need to over-come obstacles with the diminishingfrosh programs,” said Lynch. “Higher play-er counts can mean one of two things — adistraction or a positive team atmo-sphere by kids understanding their roleson the team.

“I hope the last frosh team won’t bethe end of the frosh program due to theeconomy. As a staff, we believe that thefrosh program is something that has putour program on top in the last 10 years.Without it, we still need to developyoung talent and give kids a chance tomake a difference in our program. It isgoing to take a lot of coaching and com-munication to get everybody on the samepage and headed in the same direction.”

What do frosh sports provide?“They provide an opportunity for

more students to enjoy playing an extra-curricular activity that they may not dowith doubts about their individual skills.They develop skills in players at a timewhen they may not have been able toplay Pop Warner football due to size orother issues.”

How is this team going toovercome that?

“We are going to overcome that obsta-cle through our coaching style. We aregoing to work on getting everybodyready to play and be an integral memberof the team. There are many teams to bepart of: offense, defense and six differentspecial teams.

“Each role is just as important as theother and each one is needed to be suc-

cessful on Friday nights.“We want our kids to play hard every

down and not save themselves. If they gettired we will sub in the next guy so thatour team is working at an optimum levelfor all four quarters. If we instill that theteam is more important than the individ-ual we will be able to accomplish ourgoals.”

What can we expect from thisyear’s team?

“This year’s team will be talented atevery position. We have personnel thatare returning from the frosh team as wellas a good mixture of incoming kids thatwill fit in and help us out.

“Returners on offense include QBTyler Clayton 5-11, 140 pounds; RB’sBobby Woolsey 5-8, 150 pounds; Alex

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A challenging yearfor frosh/soph football

BY MIKE [email protected]

For Minarets High School all sportingevents will be loaded with firsts. The firstCIF interscholastic contest was held onAug. 20 with the Mustangs’ volleyballteams competing at Clovis North in ascrimmage. On Sept. 2 the Mustangskicked off its first-ever season in a match-up with their first-ever opponent at Liber-ty High-Madera Ranchos.

Minarets athletic director Dave Hammdoubles as the vollyball program’s headcoach and will lead the new squads withBob Lofgren as his assistant.

“Although we are working on ‘paper’right now, we plan to have two teams ingirl’s volleyball — a JV team and a fresh-man team,” Hamm said. “Of course, thetruth be told, the two teams will really betwo freshman teams. But we hope to getthem up to speed as quickly as possible.”

Hamm coached for many years atYosemite High in the girl’s volleyball,boy’s basketball and boy’s tennisprograms.

The Minarets team has a full schedulefor September that includes a game atYosemite High on Sept. 17 as well asmountain neighbor Mariposa on Sept. 22.

“We are still looking for games in Octo-ber since all schools will be in league bythen. It has been a little harder to sched-ule in between the league requiredgames,” Hamm said.

Hamm was pleased to be able to getLofgren to assist in the volleyball pro-

gram.“Bob recently retired from coaching

and teaching in Modesto and has settledin Coarsegold. He brings a lot of experi-ence to the program and we are reallyhappy to have him,” said Hamm.

Steve Lopez has been hired as theboy’s head basketball coach.

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Yosemite Boys cross country team (top row, left to right): Josh Prather, John Green, Austin Hunter,Hunter Williamson, John Warmerdam, Bobby Moore, Kyle Veator. (Middle row, left to right): IanWomack, Kevan Johnson, Ryan Broomfield, Alec Eaton, Taylor Rogers, Bronson Booth. (Bottom row,left to right): Chandler Padovich, Danny Longcor, Clayton Guillemin, Carson Lovett, Ryan McCourt,Taylor Koellish.

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Sat. 09/05 Dinuba Festival Dinuba 8 a.m.

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Wed. 11/04 *NSL Championships Woodward Park 4 p.m.

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Sat. 11/28 *State Finals Woodward Park noon

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Front row, left to right: Cody Keiffer, Zane Veater, Tim Jones, Shane Jones, Josh Pranich, Jesse Newitt, Luke Blate, Jason Sumrall, Matt Luce, DustinHarper, Bobby Woolsey, Alex Burgeno; (second row left to right ) Daniel Vanderberg, Clint Kelley, McKey Glines, Joseph Ramirez, Brandon Sherrell, TySikora, Will Schooard, Jason Pol, Josiah Madison, Chris Pendergrast, Dylan Anderson, Matt Thompson, Joseph Lopez, Jacob Corchime; (third row leftto right) Jerek Martinez, Cody Nunes, Kyle Keller, Ernest Rodriques, Matt Haynes, Pat Lynch, Brian Johnson, Larry Archer, Phil Bransteder, TrentonBeiner, C.J. Brown, Nick Hansen-Solor, Forrest Larson; (top row left to right) Justin Annett, Billy Eads, Forrest Powell, Matt Hardy, Brett Hendricksen,Brad Weaver, Denver Stalton, Ron Williams, Kurt Hanft, Paul Romero, Tray Grahlman, Taylor Clayton. Not pictured: Dillon Moran, Rod Corless, AllenKim, Aaron Allen and Cainan Watchorn.

Burgeno 5-6, 145 pounds;WR’s Ron Williams 6-4,170 pounds; OL Kurt Hanft6-2, 190 pounds and JerekMartinez 5-9, 160 pounds.Leaders on defensive in-clude safety Cody Nunes5-10, 150 pounds and line-man Justin Annett 5-11,190 pounds.”

Who is the JVcoaching staff for the2009 season?

“We are excited to haveso many skilled coaches onstaff. Each one brings a dif-ferent set of values to ourplayers and to each other.Larry Archer is our defen-sive coordinator — histhird year coaching at

YHS; Phil Branstetter, a1994 graduate of YHS, willbe coaching the runningbacks and defensive line;Brian Johnson, a 2001 grad-uate of YHS, will be coach-ing the offensive line anddefensive ends; and MattHaynes will be coachingthe offensive receivers aswell as defensive backs.”

What is yourcoaching style?

“My coaching style isthat the team comes first.Sports to me is a valuableway to learn life lessons.

“Through football kidswill learn about them-selves in relationship tothe team and their team-mates.

“It’s not about the statsof any one player but moreabout the team stats andteam goals. How do theyfit in and how they aregoing to overcome obsta-cles in life.

“Each one of our kids isgoing to someday be a lead-er in their family and intheir careers. This is a wayfor them to gain valuableexperience through sportsto find out what they aregood at and what theyneed to improve on to be astrong member of theirfamily.

“You will hear us chant‘family’ when we breakhuddles because that iswhat we believe.”


Yosemite Junior Varsity Football 2009

LYNCH: Team hastalent at every position

Chalk Talk with Coach Lynch

LeadershipLeadership is so important not only in sports but also in life. In our program we

are asking our kids to play a vital role to be a stand-up guy and lead by example. It’snot always the team captains that are the only leaders but everybody on the teamthat plays the role.

We use this as a training ground for our players to be future leaders in ourcommunities and in their own families. Someday these men are going to need tolead their families to success by being a positive role model to their children.

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In 2008, the Yosemitegirls cross country teamwon an unprecedented14th first-place finish inthe league championship.

The lady Badgers teamhas finished in first place14 of 15 years and the Bad-gers boys’ team also pickedup a first-place trophy.

“Our girls have been phe-nomenal over the years,”said Head Coach Ellen Peter-son. “They have won titlesin the Central SequoiaLeague and the NSL almostevery year.”

The Badger boys’ teamimproved on its 2006 third-place finish and its 2007 fin-

ish when the team put to-gether a second-place fin-ish.

“The Yosemite crosscountry teams are workingtoward a repeat of last sea-son’s North Sequoia Leaguechampionships,” Petersonsaid.

Returning for the girls’team: Seniors Kelsi Woytov-ich, Kaila Padovich, JoriJohnson, Ruby Alvarez, Le-slie Palmer.

Juniors new to the teamare Shelli Christianson andTaylor Biglioni.

Sophomores: ColleenWarmerdam, Tara Nunleyand Bailey Hutchens. Newto the sophomore squadare Kelsi Setarao, LenorePate, Jaimie Cogdill, LaurenWal.

Two freshman are new,Phoenix Skeahan and Lind-sey Rubottom.

Returning letterman forthe boys’ team are:

Seniors: John Warmer-

dam, John Green, HunterWilliamson, Ryan Broom-field, Clayton Guillemin,Taylor Rogers and Kyle Ve-ater. Along with newcom-ers Ian Womack and AlecEaton.

Juniors: Carson Lovett,Josh Prather, Ryan McCourtand Taylor Koellish.

Justin Smith (junior),Bobby Moore (sophomore)and freshmen Chandler Pa-d o v i c h a n d T a n n e rMcConnell.

Sophomores: HunterLassos and Bronson Booth.

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Yosemite’s Kelsi Woytovich, left, returns for thelady Badgers in 2009.

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BY MIKE HACKWORTH

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The Yosemite High School Bad-gers football team will kick off its33rd season of gridiron actionwhen it opens at San Joaquin Me-morial’s Panther Stadium tomor-row night.

The CoachYosemite head football coach

Aaron Eames is 97-57 (.588) in his14th season as the Badgers headcoach. He is 2-1 against the Pan-thers in the last three seasons.

The BadgersComing off their ninth consecu-

tive winning season, somethingthat has not been accomplished atYosemite in more than 30 years,the Badgers enter the 2009 seasonwith a mixture of returning letter-men and youthful depth.

The team will have 14 return-ing lettermen and eight startersfrom an 8-4 team a year ago thatreached the Division III playoffslosing to eventual championTehachapi.

Since Eames has taken over theprogram (1996 season), the Bad-gers have gone 97-57 with four Di-vision III Central Section champi-onship game appearances and the2002 and 2004 titles.

“Returning to Division III lastyear was good for us and we arecertainly one of the favorites,”Eames said. “But this team has tocome together as a team for us tobe successful.”

Yosemite reached the CentralSection playoffs in 2008 defeatingDinuba in the third round 31-24but failing to get Tehachapi,62-41.

On the defensive side of theball, the team brings back fourstarters from last season.

One of the team’s strengthsthat Eames points out are the skillpositions on defense, includingtwo-time All-North SequoiaLeague safety Jackson Glines (6-1,180 pounds) who collected 91tackles (54 solo) with three inter-ceptions and four fumble recover-ies during the 2008 season.

Glines is joined once again byAll-League defensive back DetriDunn 6-1,180 pounds with 48 tack-les (23 solo) and two interceptionsand Garrett Yoder (6-2, 190

pounds), who finished the seasonwith 89 tackles (41 solo), foursacks and four fumble recoveries.

Offensively, the Badgers lost athree-year quarterback and sever-al experienced running backs andface the task of replacing four start-ing offensive lineman.

“Our offensive line is fast andathletic, but we will need for themto take some huge strides,” Eamessaid.

So once again, the Badger coach-es will rebuild the team with thetalent at hand and find a way tomaintain their prominence in theValley.

Coaching changesFor the 2009 season, there will

be some changes in the staff due tobudget cuts and the lack of fund-ing for the freshman program.

All incoming freshman will bepart of the Junior Varsity footballteam this year.

The Junior Varsity staff will beHead Coach Pat Lynch, Larry Ar-cher, Matt Haynes, Phil Branstet-ter and Brian Johnson. The Varsitystaff will consist of Head CoachAaron Eames, Erik Peterson, KentLincoln and Richard Joseph.

“We have funded a frosh teamwhen other programs couldn’tand have not gone with a frosh pro-gram in some time so we are sorryfor those frosh kids that decide notto come out,” Eames said.

“We want to encourage all stu-dents to come be a part of the foot-ball program and to help make ourteams stronger.”

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The Yosemite Badgersgirls golf team has set loftygoals for the 2009 season,and after the team’s finisha year ago, they should bewithin reach.

The team finished the2008 season third at theCIF Championships.

“I was hoping for a back-to-back season with boththe boys in the spring andgirls in the fall,” saidYosemite golf coach RustyOetinger. “But it didn’tquite work out. We gotvery close though.

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The team returns 10players: Erica Grant, Betha-

ny Davenport, ShannonLane, Sophie Faulkner,Raquel Strobel, ChloeDean, Biff Avina, KatelundMcCall, Jessica Kao andKelly Perkins.

“We have never re-turned this many girls,”Head Tennis Coach StanLawrence said. “Practiceshave been much more in-tense with the returning

players challenging forspots.”

Assistant Coach KathyNaumcheff has also joinedthe team this year.

“Kathy brings a wealthof tennis knowledge, witha mo ther ’s touch,”Lawrence said.

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Yosemite Badgers varsity (Bottom row, left to right): Michael Barber, Jacob Gorba, Cody Essary, Johnathan Dew, Connor Cleary, Jesse Browning,James Derickson, David Lopez, Jaron Clower, Mario Ramirez. (Second row, L-R): Steven Delgado, John DiTomaso, Zackary Stewart, Rex Cornell, JohnJones, Kristian Cross, Bradley Rolff, Harley Glines, Victor Rowlodge, Theo Nicolulis, Jacob Allen. (Third row, left to right): Caden Shea, BrandonCummins, Derek Annett, Jackson Glines, Coaches: Daniel Joseph, Aaron Eames, Willie Poe, Richard Joseph, Erik Peterson, Kent Lincoln, PeterMascola, Detri Dunn, Jerry Conley. (Back row, left to right): Daniel Romero, Jeremiah Bishop, Tyler Wilhite, Kevin Kenyon, Michael Patterson, EricLoberg, Dakota Stalter, Grant Hendrickson, Kyle Lincoln, Kyle Wilhite, Garrett Yoder. Not pictured: Dalton Mayn, Trevor McConnell.


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The Yosemite Badgers water poloteams are set to improve on last season’srecord, which saw the Badger boys mak-ing it to the semifinal round of the playoffsbefore losing to Redwood High School.

The girls teamThe lady Badgers made it to the quarter-

finals before falling to El Diamante. But2009 is a new season and head coach Bran-don Brokaw has already set one goal.

“The girls have had an up and down sea-

son so far,” Brokaw said. “But we haveplayed really well in our last tournament.Our focus this year is to win our firstleague title.”

The boys teamThe boys’ team, coached by Jim Clark,

returns a good core of young, fast playersin 2009.

The Badgers are led by goalie AnthonySmith, Drew Tapia and Jacob Jackson. Wes-ley Kudela, Kaiden Grossi and Kyle Oja,who were promoted late in the 2008 sea-son, will also provide experience to theBadgers.

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For the 2009 season, theYosemite volleyball team isreturning five core startersfrom last season who bringgreat athleticism and confi-dence to a tall offensive at-tack.

“We have a remarkableteam this year, very tall andvery aggressive,” Yosemitehead coach Tammy Thack-er said. “We are excited tostart playing to see the re-sults of our hard work.”

At outside hitter, thelady Badgers have seniorsLanae Contero and HillaryPrince, who bring experi-ence, dedication and poiseto the team.

“They have been on varsi-ty for three years and havebecome very seasoned ath-letes,” Thacker said. “Bothbring well-rounded playand they have both addedstrong defensive play andpassing and serving.

“Two more seniors, Jen-nifer Schoonard, whoplayed last season and is avery versatile player, andLauren Miller, who joinedus from the Las Vegas area,both add help to our defen-

sive play,” Thacker said.

Also returning is thestarting setter CourtneyThacker. Last season, Thack-er shared the court with se-nior Taylor Alberta. Thisseason, Thacker runs the of-fense, setting all the wayaround.

“Playing club helped

Courtney get comfortablein the setting position andhas given her confidence torun the team,” Thackersaid. “She puts up a hugeblock, shutting down oppo-nents’ left side.”

At middle blocker, theBadgers have sophomoreDana Day, coming up from

junior varsity, and AshleyEllis. Both Day and Ellishave a strong block and areaggressive on the attack.

On defense, the Badger’sLibero, Lacey Smith, is onthe injured list but shouldreturn this week.

Filling in for Smith isLaura Silverman, who is a

sophomore and has done acommendable job learningthe defense.

“Devin Grant has movedonto defense and is quicklylearning the paces anddoing a remarkable job,”Thacker said.

Rounding out the start-ing positions is Kim Corkill,

who plays right side and isreturning to the varsityafter taking a year off.

“Kim puts up a hugeblock and has a tremen-dous hit,” Thacker said.

“F inishing off the12-player roster is KatyVoltmer who plays rightside and is new to varsitythis season.”


Yosemite Lady Badgers volleyball team (front row, left to right): Lacey Smith, LauraSilverman, Jennifer Schoonard, Lanae Contero, Lauren Miller, Devin Grant. (back row,left to right): Courtney Thacker, Katy Voltner, Kim Corkill, Coach Tammy Thacker,Hillary Prince, Ashley Ellis, Dana Day.

VOLLEYBALLDATE OPPONENT LOCATION TIME08/20 Buchanan Buchanan 3:30 p.m.08/28 Clovis Varsity Clovis 2 p.m.08/29 Clovis Varsity Clovis 9 a.m.09/01 Mariposa Mariposa 5 p.m.09/10 Immanuel YOSEMITE 4 p.m.09/17 Minarets YOSEMITE 4 p.m.09/25 Madera Madera 2 p.m.09/26 Madera Madera 9 a.m.09/26 YHS TOURNEY YOSEMITE TBA10/01 Clovis YOSEMITE 4 p.m.10/06 * Kerman YOSEMITE 4 p.m.10/08 * Liberty Liberty 5 p.m.10/13 * Washington Washington 5 p.m.10/15 * Chowchilla YOSEMITE 4 p.m.10/20 * Sierra YOSEMITE 5 p.m.10/22 * Kerman Kerman 4 p.m.10/27 * Liberty YOSEMITE 5 p.m.10/29 * Washington YOSEMITE 5 p.m.11/03 * Chowchilla Chowchilla 4 p.m.11/05 * Sierra Sierra 5 p.m.

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“Steve is a great addi-tion as well. I coachedwith Steve at Yosemiteand he is a heck of acoach and really makes aconnection with kids butis right there with the nec-essary discipline as well.Plus, he is a real go-getterand has put together afundraising event al-ready,” said Hamm.

The school will run alimited sports programbased on the first year en-rollment of 130 and an in-terest survey done withthe incoming freshmanduring the spring. Mina-rets will offer volleyballand cross country in thefall, boy’s basketball andgirl’s soccer in the winter.

“We are still workingon the spring sports andhope to offer baseballand softball,” Hamm said.“We may do some inter-esting things as well likeLacrosse, boy’s volleyballand mountain biking.

“We want to engage asmany kids as possible insome aspect of physicalactivity and competition.Sports can offer so manytangibles to a student’slife such as the social as-pect and team and schoolcamaraderie, learning tobe on time, work with oth-ers toward a commongoal, discipline in your ac-tions toward others —just a host of learning op-portunities,” Hamm said.

“We also have two greatfootball guys on staff andwhile we will not be able tooffer football this year, Iwould hope we can getsomething going by nextyear,” Hamm added.

The school has limited fa-cilities at this time. Theschool’s gym is scheduledfor completion in Januarywhile the soccer field isbeing worked on now alongwith the baseball and soft-ball fields.

“I was here at the open-ing of Yosemite High and Iremember how the volley-ball team had to practiceoutside on the dirt and othersports had to make do aswell so we will be in thesame position for awhile,”Hamm said.

The school has an athlet-ic Web site and hopes tostart filling out schedules,putting rosters up and put-

ting in game action photos.The Web s i te is :

www.mhsmustangs.us.“We are becoming

known as a ‘tech’ school al-ready so I expect there willbe game action video andother exciting stuff on theWeb site. We want to giverecognition and displaythe talents of the kids inathletics just as we have inag and mock trial alreadywith the incoming sopho-mores,” Hamm said.

“We expect there willbe struggles, of course, butthat is a part of life andgrowing up as well,” saidHamm. “This is also one ofthe great things that comeout of competition is learn-ing to handle adversity andnot only adversity but han-dling yourself properly insuccessful ventures aswell.”


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For the 2009 season, theYosemite volleyball team isreturning five core startersfrom last season who bringgreat athleticism and confi-dence to a tall offensive at-tack.

“We have a remarkableteam this year, very tall andvery aggressive,” Yosemitehead coach Tammy Thack-er said. “We are excited tostart playing to see the re-sults of our hard work.”

At outside hitter, thelady Badgers have seniorsLanae Contero and HillaryPrince, who bring experi-ence, dedication and poiseto the team.

“They have been on varsi-ty for three years and havebecome very seasoned ath-letes,” Thacker said. “Bothbring well-rounded playand they have both addedstrong defensive play andpassing and serving.

“Two more seniors, Jen-nifer Schoonard, whoplayed last season and is avery versatile player, andLauren Miller, who joinedus from the Las Vegas area,both add help to our defen-

sive play,” Thacker said.

Also returning is thestarting setter CourtneyThacker. Last season, Thack-er shared the court with se-nior Taylor Alberta. Thisseason, Thacker runs the of-fense, setting all the wayaround.

“Playing club helped

Courtney get comfortablein the setting position andhas given her confidence torun the team,” Thackersaid. “She puts up a hugeblock, shutting down oppo-nents’ left side.”

At middle blocker, theBadgers have sophomoreDana Day, coming up from

junior varsity, and AshleyEllis. Both Day and Ellishave a strong block and areaggressive on the attack.

On defense, the Badger’sLibero, Lacey Smith, is onthe injured list but shouldreturn this week.

Filling in for Smith isLaura Silverman, who is a

sophomore and has done acommendable job learningthe defense.

“Devin Grant has movedonto defense and is quicklylearning the paces anddoing a remarkable job,”Thacker said.

Rounding out the start-ing positions is Kim Corkill,

who plays right side and isreturning to the varsityafter taking a year off.

“Kim puts up a hugeblock and has a tremen-dous hit,” Thacker said.

“F inishing off the12-player roster is KatyVoltmer who plays rightside and is new to varsitythis season.”


Yosemite Lady Badgers volleyball team (front row, left to right): Lacey Smith, LauraSilverman, Jennifer Schoonard, Lanae Contero, Lauren Miller, Devin Grant. (back row,left to right): Courtney Thacker, Katy Voltner, Kim Corkill, Coach Tammy Thacker,Hillary Prince, Ashley Ellis, Dana Day.

VOLLEYBALLDATE OPPONENT LOCATION TIME08/20 Buchanan Buchanan 3:30 p.m.08/28 Clovis Varsity Clovis 2 p.m.08/29 Clovis Varsity Clovis 9 a.m.09/01 Mariposa Mariposa 5 p.m.09/10 Immanuel YOSEMITE 4 p.m.09/17 Minarets YOSEMITE 4 p.m.09/25 Madera Madera 2 p.m.09/26 Madera Madera 9 a.m.09/26 YHS TOURNEY YOSEMITE TBA10/01 Clovis YOSEMITE 4 p.m.10/06 * Kerman YOSEMITE 4 p.m.10/08 * Liberty Liberty 5 p.m.10/13 * Washington Washington 5 p.m.10/15 * Chowchilla YOSEMITE 4 p.m.10/20 * Sierra YOSEMITE 5 p.m.10/22 * Kerman Kerman 4 p.m.10/27 * Liberty YOSEMITE 5 p.m.10/29 * Washington YOSEMITE 5 p.m.11/03 * Chowchilla Chowchilla 4 p.m.11/05 * Sierra Sierra 5 p.m.

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Team puts five experienced seniors on the court6 Thursday, September 10, 2009 • Sierra Star, Oakhurst, California www.sierrastar.com

“Steve is a great addi-tion as well. I coachedwith Steve at Yosemiteand he is a heck of acoach and really makes aconnection with kids butis right there with the nec-essary discipline as well.Plus, he is a real go-getterand has put together afundraising event al-ready,” said Hamm.

The school will run alimited sports programbased on the first year en-rollment of 130 and an in-terest survey done withthe incoming freshmanduring the spring. Mina-rets will offer volleyballand cross country in thefall, boy’s basketball andgirl’s soccer in the winter.

“We are still workingon the spring sports andhope to offer baseballand softball,” Hamm said.“We may do some inter-esting things as well likeLacrosse, boy’s volleyballand mountain biking.

“We want to engage asmany kids as possible insome aspect of physicalactivity and competition.Sports can offer so manytangibles to a student’slife such as the social as-pect and team and schoolcamaraderie, learning tobe on time, work with oth-ers toward a commongoal, discipline in your ac-tions toward others —just a host of learning op-portunities,” Hamm said.

“We also have two greatfootball guys on staff andwhile we will not be able tooffer football this year, Iwould hope we can getsomething going by nextyear,” Hamm added.

The school has limited fa-cilities at this time. Theschool’s gym is scheduledfor completion in Januarywhile the soccer field isbeing worked on now alongwith the baseball and soft-ball fields.

“I was here at the open-ing of Yosemite High and Iremember how the volley-ball team had to practiceoutside on the dirt and othersports had to make do aswell so we will be in thesame position for awhile,”Hamm said.

The school has an athlet-ic Web site and hopes tostart filling out schedules,putting rosters up and put-

ting in game action photos.The Web s i te is :

www.mhsmustangs.us.“We are becoming

known as a ‘tech’ school al-ready so I expect there willbe game action video andother exciting stuff on theWeb site. We want to giverecognition and displaythe talents of the kids inathletics just as we have inag and mock trial alreadywith the incoming sopho-mores,” Hamm said.

“We expect there willbe struggles, of course, butthat is a part of life andgrowing up as well,” saidHamm. “This is also one ofthe great things that comeout of competition is learn-ing to handle adversity andnot only adversity but han-dling yourself properly insuccessful ventures aswell.”


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Minarets Girls volleyball team (left to right): Nicole Schuetz, BreannaCairns, Cheyenne Mangan, Heather Reichard, Allison Mitchell, BrianneMcCreary, Peri Budge, Sabrina Tremble, Sarah Graves, Jordan Smith.

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The Yosemite Badgers water poloteams are set to improve on last season’srecord, which saw the Badger boys mak-ing it to the semifinal round of the playoffsbefore losing to Redwood High School.

The girls teamThe lady Badgers made it to the quarter-

finals before falling to El Diamante. But2009 is a new season and head coach Bran-don Brokaw has already set one goal.

“The girls have had an up and down sea-

son so far,” Brokaw said. “But we haveplayed really well in our last tournament.Our focus this year is to win our firstleague title.”

The boys teamThe boys’ team, coached by Jim Clark,

returns a good core of young, fast playersin 2009.

The Badgers are led by goalie AnthonySmith, Drew Tapia and Jacob Jackson. Wes-ley Kudela, Kaiden Grossi and Kyle Oja,who were promoted late in the 2008 sea-son, will also provide experience to theBadgers.

Water Polo teams chase league titles

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(Bottom row, left to right): Liv Tovar, Nicole Kleist, Becky Kremer, Joanna Barney. (Middle row, left toright): Eleanor Cummings, Brittany Elsman, Leslie Lauterbach, Malea Bover, Karley LeQuia. (Toprow, left to right): Paige Russel, Meghan Moons, Ashley LeForge, Erin Casey, Jazmin Jones, CaitlinTurner.

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The Yosemite High School Bad-gers football team will kick off its33rd season of gridiron actionwhen it opens at San Joaquin Me-morial’s Panther Stadium tomor-row night.

The CoachYosemite head football coach

Aaron Eames is 97-57 (.588) in his14th season as the Badgers headcoach. He is 2-1 against the Pan-thers in the last three seasons.

The BadgersComing off their ninth consecu-

tive winning season, somethingthat has not been accomplished atYosemite in more than 30 years,the Badgers enter the 2009 seasonwith a mixture of returning letter-men and youthful depth.

The team will have 14 return-ing lettermen and eight startersfrom an 8-4 team a year ago thatreached the Division III playoffslosing to eventual championTehachapi.

Since Eames has taken over theprogram (1996 season), the Bad-gers have gone 97-57 with four Di-vision III Central Section champi-onship game appearances and the2002 and 2004 titles.

“Returning to Division III lastyear was good for us and we arecertainly one of the favorites,”Eames said. “But this team has tocome together as a team for us tobe successful.”

Yosemite reached the CentralSection playoffs in 2008 defeatingDinuba in the third round 31-24but failing to get Tehachapi,62-41.

On the defensive side of theball, the team brings back fourstarters from last season.

One of the team’s strengthsthat Eames points out are the skillpositions on defense, includingtwo-time All-North SequoiaLeague safety Jackson Glines (6-1,180 pounds) who collected 91tackles (54 solo) with three inter-ceptions and four fumble recover-ies during the 2008 season.

Glines is joined once again byAll-League defensive back DetriDunn 6-1,180 pounds with 48 tack-les (23 solo) and two interceptionsand Garrett Yoder (6-2, 190

pounds), who finished the seasonwith 89 tackles (41 solo), foursacks and four fumble recoveries.

Offensively, the Badgers lost athree-year quarterback and sever-al experienced running backs andface the task of replacing four start-ing offensive lineman.

“Our offensive line is fast andathletic, but we will need for themto take some huge strides,” Eamessaid.

So once again, the Badger coach-es will rebuild the team with thetalent at hand and find a way tomaintain their prominence in theValley.

Coaching changesFor the 2009 season, there will

be some changes in the staff due tobudget cuts and the lack of fund-ing for the freshman program.

All incoming freshman will bepart of the Junior Varsity footballteam this year.

The Junior Varsity staff will beHead Coach Pat Lynch, Larry Ar-cher, Matt Haynes, Phil Branstet-ter and Brian Johnson. The Varsitystaff will consist of Head CoachAaron Eames, Erik Peterson, KentLincoln and Richard Joseph.

“We have funded a frosh teamwhen other programs couldn’tand have not gone with a frosh pro-gram in some time so we are sorryfor those frosh kids that decide notto come out,” Eames said.

“We want to encourage all stu-dents to come be a part of the foot-ball program and to help make ourteams stronger.”

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Badger co-captains: Garrett Yoder, Detri Dunn, JacksonGlines and Jacob Allen.

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The Yosemite Badgersgirls golf team has set loftygoals for the 2009 season,and after the team’s finisha year ago, they should bewithin reach.

The team finished the2008 season third at theCIF Championships.

“I was hoping for a back-to-back season with boththe boys in the spring andgirls in the fall,” saidYosemite golf coach RustyOetinger. “But it didn’tquite work out. We gotvery close though.

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The team returns 10players: Erica Grant, Betha-

ny Davenport, ShannonLane, Sophie Faulkner,Raquel Strobel, ChloeDean, Biff Avina, KatelundMcCall, Jessica Kao andKelly Perkins.

“We have never re-turned this many girls,”Head Tennis Coach StanLawrence said. “Practiceshave been much more in-tense with the returning

players challenging forspots.”

Assistant Coach KathyNaumcheff has also joinedthe team this year.

“Kathy brings a wealthof tennis knowledge, witha mo ther ’s touch,”Lawrence said.

First-year players thathave come out for the team

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Front row, left to right: Cody Keiffer, Zane Veater, Tim Jones, Shane Jones, Josh Pranich, Jesse Newitt, Luke Blate, Jason Sumrall, Matt Luce, DustinHarper, Bobby Woolsey, Alex Burgeno; (second row left to right ) Daniel Vanderberg, Clint Kelley, McKey Glines, Joseph Ramirez, Brandon Sherrell, TySikora, Will Schooard, Jason Pol, Josiah Madison, Chris Pendergrast, Dylan Anderson, Matt Thompson, Joseph Lopez, Jacob Corchime; (third row leftto right) Jerek Martinez, Cody Nunes, Kyle Keller, Ernest Rodriques, Matt Haynes, Pat Lynch, Brian Johnson, Larry Archer, Phil Bransteder, TrentonBeiner, C.J. Brown, Nick Hansen-Solor, Forrest Larson; (top row left to right) Justin Annett, Billy Eads, Forrest Powell, Matt Hardy, Brett Hendricksen,Brad Weaver, Denver Stalton, Ron Williams, Kurt Hanft, Paul Romero, Tray Grahlman, Taylor Clayton. Not pictured: Dillon Moran, Rod Corless, AllenKim, Aaron Allen and Cainan Watchorn.

Burgeno 5-6, 145 pounds;WR’s Ron Williams 6-4,170 pounds; OL Kurt Hanft6-2, 190 pounds and JerekMartinez 5-9, 160 pounds.Leaders on defensive in-clude safety Cody Nunes5-10, 150 pounds and line-man Justin Annett 5-11,190 pounds.”

Who is the JVcoaching staff for the2009 season?

“We are excited to haveso many skilled coaches onstaff. Each one brings a dif-ferent set of values to ourplayers and to each other.Larry Archer is our defen-sive coordinator — histhird year coaching at

YHS; Phil Branstetter, a1994 graduate of YHS, willbe coaching the runningbacks and defensive line;Brian Johnson, a 2001 grad-uate of YHS, will be coach-ing the offensive line anddefensive ends; and MattHaynes will be coachingthe offensive receivers aswell as defensive backs.”

What is yourcoaching style?

“My coaching style isthat the team comes first.Sports to me is a valuableway to learn life lessons.

“Through football kidswill learn about them-selves in relationship tothe team and their team-mates.

“It’s not about the statsof any one player but moreabout the team stats andteam goals. How do theyfit in and how they aregoing to overcome obsta-cles in life.

“Each one of our kids isgoing to someday be a lead-er in their family and intheir careers. This is a wayfor them to gain valuableexperience through sportsto find out what they aregood at and what theyneed to improve on to be astrong member of theirfamily.

“You will hear us chant‘family’ when we breakhuddles because that iswhat we believe.”


Yosemite Junior Varsity Football 2009

LYNCH: Team hastalent at every position

Chalk Talk with Coach Lynch

LeadershipLeadership is so important not only in sports but also in life. In our program we

are asking our kids to play a vital role to be a stand-up guy and lead by example. It’snot always the team captains that are the only leaders but everybody on the teamthat plays the role.

We use this as a training ground for our players to be future leaders in ourcommunities and in their own families. Someday these men are going to need tolead their families to success by being a positive role model to their children.

Leadership — helping others to victory.

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In 2008, the Yosemitegirls cross country teamwon an unprecedented14th first-place finish inthe league championship.

The lady Badgers teamhas finished in first place14 of 15 years and the Bad-gers boys’ team also pickedup a first-place trophy.

“Our girls have been phe-nomenal over the years,”said Head Coach Ellen Peter-son. “They have won titlesin the Central SequoiaLeague and the NSL almostevery year.”

The Badger boys’ teamimproved on its 2006 third-place finish and its 2007 fin-

ish when the team put to-gether a second-place fin-ish.

“The Yosemite crosscountry teams are workingtoward a repeat of last sea-son’s North Sequoia Leaguechampionships,” Petersonsaid.

Returning for the girls’team: Seniors Kelsi Woytov-ich, Kaila Padovich, JoriJohnson, Ruby Alvarez, Le-slie Palmer.

Juniors new to the teamare Shelli Christianson andTaylor Biglioni.

Sophomores: ColleenWarmerdam, Tara Nunleyand Bailey Hutchens. Newto the sophomore squadare Kelsi Setarao, LenorePate, Jaimie Cogdill, LaurenWal.

Two freshman are new,Phoenix Skeahan and Lind-sey Rubottom.

Returning letterman forthe boys’ team are:

Seniors: John Warmer-

dam, John Green, HunterWilliamson, Ryan Broom-field, Clayton Guillemin,Taylor Rogers and Kyle Ve-ater. Along with newcom-ers Ian Womack and AlecEaton.

Juniors: Carson Lovett,Josh Prather, Ryan McCourtand Taylor Koellish.

Justin Smith (junior),Bobby Moore (sophomore)and freshmen Chandler Pa-d o v i c h a n d T a n n e rMcConnell.

Sophomores: HunterLassos and Bronson Booth.

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Pat Lynch

Mustangs sports will befull of firsts, new AD says

Forcing a team attitude

Pat Lynch, a 1987 graduate ofYosemite High School, was hired on as JVcoach in 1991 and coached boy’s basket-ball at Yosemite for nine years — froshfour years and JV five years. Now he willcoach the first frosh/soph team.

Lynch graduated from Fresno StateUniversity in 1993 with a degree in physi-cal education and human performance.

“This will be as challenging a year asour JV football team will need to over-come obstacles with the diminishingfrosh programs,” said Lynch. “Higher play-er counts can mean one of two things — adistraction or a positive team atmo-sphere by kids understanding their roleson the team.

“I hope the last frosh team won’t bethe end of the frosh program due to theeconomy. As a staff, we believe that thefrosh program is something that has putour program on top in the last 10 years.Without it, we still need to developyoung talent and give kids a chance tomake a difference in our program. It isgoing to take a lot of coaching and com-munication to get everybody on the samepage and headed in the same direction.”

What do frosh sports provide?“They provide an opportunity for

more students to enjoy playing an extra-curricular activity that they may not dowith doubts about their individual skills.They develop skills in players at a timewhen they may not have been able toplay Pop Warner football due to size orother issues.”

How is this team going toovercome that?

“We are going to overcome that obsta-cle through our coaching style. We aregoing to work on getting everybodyready to play and be an integral memberof the team. There are many teams to bepart of: offense, defense and six differentspecial teams.

“Each role is just as important as theother and each one is needed to be suc-

cessful on Friday nights.“We want our kids to play hard every

down and not save themselves. If they gettired we will sub in the next guy so thatour team is working at an optimum levelfor all four quarters. If we instill that theteam is more important than the individ-ual we will be able to accomplish ourgoals.”

What can we expect from thisyear’s team?

“This year’s team will be talented atevery position. We have personnel thatare returning from the frosh team as wellas a good mixture of incoming kids thatwill fit in and help us out.

“Returners on offense include QBTyler Clayton 5-11, 140 pounds; RB’sBobby Woolsey 5-8, 150 pounds; Alex

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A challenging yearfor frosh/soph football


For Minarets High School all sportingevents will be loaded with firsts. The firstCIF interscholastic contest was held onAug. 20 with the Mustangs’ volleyballteams competing at Clovis North in ascrimmage. On Sept. 2 the Mustangskicked off its first-ever season in a match-up with their first-ever opponent at Liber-ty High-Madera Ranchos.

Minarets athletic director Dave Hammdoubles as the vollyball program’s headcoach and will lead the new squads withBob Lofgren as his assistant.

“Although we are working on ‘paper’right now, we plan to have two teams ingirl’s volleyball — a JV team and a fresh-man team,” Hamm said. “Of course, thetruth be told, the two teams will really betwo freshman teams. But we hope to getthem up to speed as quickly as possible.”

Hamm coached for many years atYosemite High in the girl’s volleyball,boy’s basketball and boy’s tennisprograms.

The Minarets team has a full schedulefor September that includes a game atYosemite High on Sept. 17 as well asmountain neighbor Mariposa on Sept. 22.

“We are still looking for games in Octo-ber since all schools will be in league bythen. It has been a little harder to sched-ule in between the league requiredgames,” Hamm said.

Hamm was pleased to be able to getLofgren to assist in the volleyball pro-

gram.“Bob recently retired from coaching

and teaching in Modesto and has settledin Coarsegold. He brings a lot of experi-ence to the program and we are reallyhappy to have him,” said Hamm.

Steve Lopez has been hired as theboy’s head basketball coach.

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“Many of the girls newto tennis have had exten-sive experience in othersports and this alwayshelps them pick up demand-ing tennis skills,” Lawrencesaid.

Those players includePia Peredia, Kazia Hart, Be-thany Buchnoff, Liz Egg-leston, Simone Radliff,Robin Meister and KaitlenKrusen.

“We missed the playoffslast year for the first time inmany years, so we definitlywant to get back into that

mix. And with our group ofreturning players weshould definitely competefor the league title thisyear,” Lawrence said. “Sier-ra will probably be theleague favorite. Until some-one beats them they arethe favorites to repeat forleague title.”


GOLF: Team will pushhard to reach successunder 71 at area to qualifyfor the Valley IndividualChampionship.

This season’s team isled by Kirsten, AmandaRudd and Jordon Keyser.All three individuals hadfull golf schedules thissummer.

“So far in this early sea-son all three girls have con-sistently shot under 40,”Oetinger said. “Along withthe top three ladies, Racha-el Hernandez has playedvery well and is also man-aging a very difficult aca-demic schedule.

“These girls will push

each other all year and willonly make our team bet-ter.”

On top of the outstand-ing play by the top fourgirls, there is a solid groupof girls that are challeng-ing each week for the fiveand six spots. Mari Mober-ly, Brianna Smith, KristenEmerick and AshtonMearse are working hardto become consistent play-ers.

“We have two brand-new players, MarishaBrooks and Maggie Brew-er,” Oetinger said. “Mar-isha is a first-year playerworking hard to develop

her game. Maggie is an up-and-coming freshman thathas learned quickly.”

To date, the team wasscheduled to play Selma atRidgecreek but the Bearsfailed to show.

“We played a practiceround and Rudd was ourlow golfer with a score of38,” Oetinger said. “Jordonwas second with a 43 andKirsten and Rachael tied at46.”

“This team is highly mo-tivated and has made it agoal to reach the CIF finalsagain,” Oetinger said. “Thisteam is the most well-rounded ladies team thatwe have had at Yosemite.”


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