Passing on the tradition: Dads tackle the challenge of coaching sons
With the arrival of fall comes blitzes, stunts, fly sweeps, memories and memories in the making.
Dick Halter: Voice of the Trojans
Dick Halter’s familiar voice has been heard through the public address system at the Kennedy High School football field for 25 years.
Dream team: Kennedy’s football team shines on and off the field
Kennedy High School’s football team is becoming known for not only what it accomplishes on the field but off it. The team took second place in the state OSAA 2A game in 2009. Team members also raised enough money to build a home for a needy family in Peru.
The house that Trojans built
Mt. Angel’s Kennedy Trojans finished the 2009 season as second in the state for 2A football, but their dream season was not over. They made another dream come true. Five members of the team accompanied by coach and Spanish teacher David Stavros and his wife, Gina, went to Lima, Peru over Christmas break to dedicate a home for a family that was built with money the team raised earlier this year.
Kennedy High football: Trojans take secon place in state 2-A
The 2009 schedule posters displayed in many Mt. Angel businesses labeled the Kennedy High School football team as “Bigger, Stronger, Faster.” The team certainly lived up to that standard.
Coach Traeger: Cheers for 30 years
Kennedy High School head football coach Randy Traeger has begun his 30th year in the interscholastic sports arena. Traeger said he equally enjoys both the “what” and “why” of coaching and is motivated by the building of character in his players.
Behind the team: SHS managers part of the football family
Rebecca Merrell, Lindsey Kariker, Hannah Roth and Jason Pallister stand on the sidelines, watching the Silverton High School football team fight for a win. Roth fetches water for the exhausted players, Merrell keeps track of the offensive stats, while Pallister records defense and Kariker wraps ankles and helps with anything medical.
It’s a Beaver win: Fans determine outcome
By Kristine Thomas The Oregon State Beavers’ football team may have lost the 2008 Civil War game to the University of Oregon Ducks 65-38, but Beaver fans still have something to cheer about. A first-time fund-raising competition called “A Friendly Rivalry” game between Duck and Beaver fans, was organized by St. Joseph’s Shelter in Mt. Angel. Beaver fans scored 16,759 […]
Randy Traeger: Measuring success by more than the score
B y Vince Teresi Some scoreboards are invisible. Kennedy High School football fans scanned the scoreboard during the 2008 season. Sometimes they liked what they saw – sometimes they didn’t. But the Trojan football team of players and coaches also monitored another “scoreboard,” which the fans could not see. The scoreboard reflected the progress in the “Virtue over Victory” program […]
Silverton Youth Football completes 2008 season
For the 2008 season, Silverton Youth Football had five flag teams – two fifth/sixth-grade teams, one seventh-grade team and one eighth-grade team, with more than 165 Silverton-area players participating. The Silverton Youth Football program had a successful year with the focus on its mission of maximizing playing time for athletes and teaching the fundamentals of football as well as […]
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