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.

Endeavor Games I’ve officiated a lot of track meets in my time, but the UCO Endeavor Games are the most unique and rewarding! The mission statement for the games says it all! The Endeavor games exists to create equitable access to sport competition for individuals with physical disabilities. The competition is different from the Special Olympics in that every event is ran off with the same rules as the Olympics.

WOLVERINES SHINE IN TEAM CAMPS The Holdenville Wolverine football has attended 2 football camps this summer and their enthusiasm and intensity has given the coaching staff plenty of reasons to be optimistic about the 2023 season. Wolverine head coach David Barker had this to say regarding his team’s summer camps: “What a difference a year can make! Last year we went to the Atoka camp with 23 players.

Pardon me for writing in first person but when I went to the cemetery on Memorial Day Weekend my memory drifted back to a decade or so ago when I ask my friend Larry Langwell how he got an ugly scar on his leg. Larry’s reply puzzled me because he said the scar was received on his senior trip. I was a bit puzzled at first because I had no memory of a senior trip!