Will the renovations at Jacket Stadium be finished for the start of football season? New track and artificial turf, scoreboard and clock? Well, completion is getting close, but as usual, it depends on the weather, Dean Sharp, consultant and “project manager” for the bond building program, told the Llano School Board Tuesday night.
The spring rains delayed progress, but that obstacle was overcome, and no rain to speak of since.
Just when summer is really starting to heat up in Texas, it is almost time for children to go back to school. Soon motorists will be sharing the roads with school buses, pedestrians, bicycle riders, and lots of new teen drivers taking their first car to school. According to the National Safety Council, teen car crashes spike in September when they are driving to and from school.
Coaching changes in sports are about as unexpected as Ronda Rousey winning a fist fight in a minute-10, but Llano High Athletic Director Craig Slaughter said, “Never in my career, this late.”
He was referring to the surprise announcement around August 10 by boys’ basketball head varsity coach, Aidan Callahan, that he is leaving the Jackets for an academics’ job at the University of Texas.
BURNET—Bulldog Field looked superb, August 14, as it unveiled its GreenFields synthetic turf, the same carpet Llano will show off, August 20, against Sonora.
The ‘Dogs dominated the Jackets in the first of the two-scrimmage month, but head coach Craig Slaughter delivered an “Upon Further Review” rebuttal to his own comments.
“I was definitely hoping to have more success,” he said following the game, but, after watching the replay—on video in the athletic offices—his call was:
WIMBERLEY—It was a routine six games, August 14-15, for the Llano volleyball Jackets, here at the Tex Fest, and this was after starting the campaign at home, August 11.
Kaymon Lange showed what fine junior and senior seasons she should have in that 2015 opener against Sonora. Skye Sanderson and CeCe Overstreet, in their first varsity matches, also played well on a team with just two seniors.
The contest did not have a happy ending, however, as the Broncos, down one, captured the confrontation ...
The first five days of Llano High football practices came to a successful conclusion, August 7, as the varsity and junior varsity were on collision courses for-and-against-each-other in a somewhat special edition in the twilight.
"I still love where we're at," said head coach Craig Slaughter, who was his usual enthusiastic self.
GEORGETOWN—You can't say the Llano volleyball Jackets enjoyed two days of leisure, August 7-8, in their pair of scrimmages prior to the season opener, August 11.
"A lot of competition," head coach John Black described it. Marble Falls, Hyde Park of Austin, and Lampasas were the foes in the Max Copeland Gymnasium in Marble on Friday.
The following day at East View High School— a shot-to-the-baseline down the road from Southwestern in Georgetown—Pflugerville, Ann Richards High, and the host ...
By Art Dlugach
The starting quarterback may be named soon, and then all Texas Tech fans can concentrate more on how this team is going to rebound from a 4-8 campaign in 2014.
"I think when you look at our turnover margin last year," said third-year head coach, Kliff Kingsbury, at Football Media Days in Dallas in July, "it was very close to the bottom of the entire country.
All incoming 9th graders are invited to attend Llano High School Fish Camp on August 6, 2015, from 12:45 to about 5:00 in the LHS Auditorium. Fish Camp is an opportunity to ease the transition from junior high to high school. Before the beginning of the school year, the 9th graders will get to meet staff members and student leaders, have a chance to get to know their classmates a little better, and learn their way around the high school campus.
The 9th graders will receive valuable information ...
Routing information for the 2015-2016 school year is now available on the Llano ISD website at www.llanoisd.org. Once you are at the website, go to the “Parents” tab, click on the bus schedule and then click on the school bus. This will take you to a web based service call infofinder i.
