Maybe he’s on a four-year plan, and this, by the way, is his fourth year in Llano. That would be head volleyball coach, John Black. He’s got a couple of decades experience in the sport, but he’s happier about the experience of his kids. Eight seniors, which means “Eight is Enough — maybe.”
“Seniors want to have a successful season,” he told me near the beginning of two-a-days, August 1.
Injuries and a near-flawless performance on the field. “The worst thing about sports,” Llano High head coach Craig Slaughter termed the opening word here, while his team whipped Comanche in the second and final scrimmage.
Luke Williams’ season is over — he was scheduled for knee surgery. Hunter Roemer suffered a dislocated shoulder.
Welcome back. Hope you were able to struggle along with no football, except for the few bones of NFL, ARENA 3, CFL, FBS, and Pop Warner Live; the Classic Games of the 1940s; Pro Days of Our Lives; Coaches’ Corner, Closet, Club, Classroom, Clipboard...ENOUGH! We get it.
I’d just as soon be in Smithville, August 26, as anywhere else, as the Llano High Jackets open the season against the Tigers.
“The kids are on the brink of playing with full confidence,” declared head coach Craig Slaughte ...
DALLAS — The Oklahoma Sooners are coming off one of the worst halves they’ve experienced in Bob Stoops’ sensational 17 years in Norman — 179 wins. That would be Clemson’s 21-0 showing in the third and fourth quarters in the Final Four — a 37-17 triumph for the Tigers.
But...that also means, they are one of fewer than a handful coming off the national semifinals.
WALL — These Hawks are pretty good. The football Jackets received proof in regular-season losses in 2014 and ’15, and, unofficially, the Class-3A school near San Angelo prevailed in a scrimmage,
August 12.
Not much to live up to from last autumn: a 12-1, regional- semifinalist performance.
“They’re as good as we’ll see all year,” said Llano head coach Craig Slaughter. "Offensively, I wish we had made something happen; ...
WIMBERLEY — A successful Llano High run in this volleyball mecca, August 12-13. The Jackets went 3-3 in the annual TexFest, and one win came in the Silver Bracket (middle tier) playoffs. The action was part of a whopping 10-game stretch from August 8-16.
“Great tournament, lot of good things,” said head coach John Black.
A signature triumph arrived Saturday morning, the 13th, against Harper.
They are coaches. They are teachers. And former athletes. One is in Llano; the other is in Marble Falls.
They are sisters.
Jessica Withrow is the first-year head coach of the Mustang volleyball team, while Amy Withrow — five years younger — is in her second year as a Lady Jackets’ assistant.
“Athletics growing up was everything to us,” said Amy, who added that their dad, Jeff, “was one of the best coaches I have ever known.”
Jessica wouldn’t disagree.
GEORGETOWN — One game can’t define a season, but it can sure feel like a season.
Wow! The Llano volleyball Jackets visited Gateway Prep Academy — Class-3A on the UIL invitation — and began the 2016 campaign with a stirring victory, three games to one.
The Gators’ almost-new gymnasium has just one grandstand, and it was packed, and did it ever get
noisy. You’d have thought it was November 8 instead of August 8.
At first ...
When you’re hoping your star running back will have a great season, you are also anticipating he will shine in the Orange-White game. (I guess Black wasn’t available.)
Good news: “Mason’s Mason,” declared Llano High head coach Craig Slaughter. Two words easy
to translate.
Mason Greenwood, who ran for more than a thousand yards in 2015, scored twice and had some superb runs in this Jackets vs.
DALLAS — When you interviewed Baylor head coach Jim Grobe or players, Seth Russell and Ryan Reid, at Big 12 Media Football Media Days, July 18-19, you asked them — most of the time — about the school’s dire situation of sexual assault allegations against some Bears’ players.
We covered much of that in the July 27 edition of The Llano News. BU will, of course, field a team in 2016, and its on-field hopes and ...
