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ASU, UA win team titles at Grand Canyon XC Invitational
The Grand Canyon University cross country team held its annual party, and this year most of the invitees from Arizona went away happy. Kipkorir Mutai did a good job representing the host, a D-II school in Phoenix, as the senior from Kenya won the individual title at the GCU Invitational for the second year in [...] -
Xavier Prep volleyball captures second major tourney title
The odds have always been against one team repeating as champion of the prestigious Goldwater Volleyball Festival tournament. There are just too many good teams competing each year. This year, Xavier Prep validated that theory as they beat Horizon High School Saturday for the tournament title. The Gators held off a Horizon surge in the [...] -
Mike Stoops is out at UA following 1-5 football start
The “Wildcat Movement” just took a sharp left. Greg Byrne, the University of Arizona AD, has announced the dismissal of head football coach, Mike Stoops. Stoops was in his eighth year at the helm of the Wildcat program and brought it back from a 2-10 season the year prior to his arrival from the University [...] -
Prep football Week 7: sorting out contenders & pretenders
By the time the high school football season gets to Week 7, it’s generally time to shake out the contenders from the pretenders. That scenario was playing out across the prep landscape last night, as most schools moved their games up to Thursday in observance of the Jewish holiday, Yom Kippur. There were a number [...] -
Fakler, Montoya run to Desert Twilight cross country titles
If Rolanda Jumbo thought she was going to have a better chance of beating Sarah Fakler this year at the Desert Twilight Cross Country Festival, she was mistaken. Fakler, the junior runner from Xavier Prep in Phoenix, beat Jumbo last year by just 10 seconds to win the Milesplit Sweepstakes race in the popular annual [...] -
Hamilton vs. Chandler tops prep football menu in Week 6
As the high school football season turns the corner into the second half, and we get a lot of the lopsided early-season match-ups in the rear view mirror, Week 6 has some much-anticipated contests on the Friday night menu. The meeting between Scottsdale powers, Chaparral High School and Notre Dame Prep would normally have been [...] -
Brophy, Xavier swimmers deep in talent again this year
Entries were down somewhat at the annual Brophy/Xavier Swim & Dive Invitational this year. But, hey, the organizers are lucky anybody wants to come since the outcome is pretty much determined before the first swimmers hit the water. Of course, if you apply that strategy to the full season, there wouldn’t be any events to [...] -
Prep football Week 4: rearranging top big-school rankings
We’ve only finished Week 4 of the high school football season, but there was no doubt that at least two of the top-ranked teams in the big-school divisions were about to fall. That’s because four of the top five teams in Division I were playing against each other. No. 3 Brophy Prep was the only [...] -
Roa, Haberman top the senior field at Chandler XC Invite
All those hours spent on dusty desert trails under the hot Arizona sun are paying off for Eduardo Roa. The senior from McClintock High School in Tempe built his cross country training regimen up from averaging around 40 miles a week at the start of the summer to as much as 55 miles by the [...] -
Mismatches begin under new AIA football re-alignment
Size does matter. But it doesn’t always determine the outcome in athletic competition. And that includes high school football. Thanks to the re-alignment implemented by the Arizona Interscholastic Association last year, there will be more opportunities to test the theory as the season progresses. Computerized scheduling now matches schools up according to geographic proximity, rather [...]
