Holdenville High School football fans will get their first look at the 2023 Wolverine football team at 6:30 Thursday evening when Konawa and Okemah come to town. The three way scrimmage will give locals a taste of the season to come. Holdenville has practiced for a week and the Wolverines are eager to test their skills against the Panthers and Tigers.

There was a lot of talk last month when a group of old athletes began reminiscing about their glory days of high school sports. Most everybody has had an opportunity to listen to some of these talks about the glory days.

Holdenville legendary coach, Butch Rawls, has been inducted into the Oklahoma Powerlifting Coaches Association (OPCA) Hall of Fame. Rawls was one of the original members of a group of football coaches who created a system of weightlifting competition for off-season football players.

It seems it was just a few days ago when the Wolverine faithfuls gathered in the First Baptist Activity Center to heap accolades on the sports heroes of the 2022-2023 sports seasons. Proper homage was paid to the athletes who made sports history! There were many, many comments and well deserved complements that filled the evening! The Wolverine Sports Banquet closed the book on the 2022-2023 season and the preparations began for the future.

How fast is fast How fast is fast? If you were a college coach and you were evaluating potential players how would you know just exactly how fast a prospect was running. Films can be deceiving! Everyone else in the film night be slow…Like the old saying, “If you want to look like you’re skinny, take a picture with fat people.” Or, if you want to look tall take a picture with short people! So, how do you compare an athlete from a small school in one state and a large school in another? The logical answer would be to put the athletes on the track and get a legitimate time in a known distance! In football that distance is 40 yards.

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Wolverines will be good! But how good? The OSSAA designated time for Dead Week will end Sunday, July 9 which means Summer Pride work-outs can resume on July 10. Fall softball and cross country practice can officially begin July 15.

Summer Pride Produces Improvement The Holdenville Athletic Program has developed one of the states most productive summer programs. Coach David Barker’s football team has had record participation.

Don’t kill the umpire! The fans described in the famous poem Casey at the Bat, yelled Kill The Umpire when the man in blue called the first strike on the mighty Casey. Now, one can be sure or at least reasonably sure that when this poem was written and released in 1888 no one was actually advocating killing an umpire.

Audrey Miller, Mylisha Miller attended The American Legion Auxiliary 80th annual Oklahoma Girl’s State. May 28th-June2nd. They would like to Thank the American Legion and ESA for their sponsorship. While attending both girls ran for dif-ferent offices and enjoyed the experience and made lots of new friends.