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16-year-old junior Gavin Rupe hopes to help Tennessee's Sullivan Central High School snap 21-game losing streak.
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Long returns, big hits and players imitating animals highlight Week 1 on the gridiron.
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MaxPreps and the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) will team up again each week throughout the fall season to select Players of the Week.
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In a wild season opener in Utah, future Cougar leads Lehi to 72-66 double overtime win over Alta.
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MaxPreps and the United Soccer Coaches will team up each week to select a Player of the Week.
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A pair of nationally ranked teams — East and Bingham — lead the Beehive State. But don't rest on Lehi, Timpview or Desert Hills in the Utah football #MaxPrepsFab5.
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Mitch Arquette, a 1999 graduate of Davis High, probably figured his return to his old stomping grounds for four seasons was an ample amount of time to launch him to the next coaching step. He served as the Darts’ offensive line coach from 2012 to 2015. ... Written by: Eric Butler - Salt Lake Tribune
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Cole Meacham has experienced several classification and region shifts during his nearly two decades at the helm of the Manti football program. While the new Class 3A South remains relatively unchanged, two strong programs from the North are joining t... Written by: Talon Chappell - Salt Lake Tribune
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One quickly realizes while talking with new Riverton coach Blaine Monkres that he doesn’t always have a solid idea of who did what the previous season. Monkres is starting from scratch, and he likes that after the Silverwolves only won one game last sea... Written by: Eric Butler - Salt Lake Tribune
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A spread offensive attack that’s wide open? Nope. Not for Granger. The Lancers prefer a tight, run-oriented formation that delivers just what it promises yards on the ground. The double-wing, double-tight scheme took the Lancers quite a ways last year. ... Written by: Eric Butler - Salt Lake Tribune
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A spread offensive attack that’s wide open? Nope. Not for Granger. The Lancers prefer a tight, run-oriented formation that delivers just what it promises yards on the ground. The double-wing, double-tight scheme took the Lancers quite a ways last year. ... Written by: Eric Butler - Salt Lake Tribune
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When a school only has had one winning season in the past 15 tries, the new coach can’t be faulted for giving his players an example of something better. That example is about a dozen miles down the road for Altamont. “Duchesne has a football program,” ... Written by: Eric Butler - Salt Lake Tribune
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When a school only has had one winning season in the past 15 tries, the new coach can’t be faulted for giving his players an example of something better. That example is about a dozen miles down the road for Altamont. “Duchesne has a football program,” ... Written by: Eric Butler - Salt Lake Tribune
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The expectations are as high as anywhere at Duchesne. “We had a few years drought there,” Duchesne coach Jerry Cowan said. The Eagles captured four consecutive state titles from 2010 to 2013 before regaining the crown last year. Ending that “drought” wa... Written by: Eric Butler - Salt Lake Tribune
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The expectations are as high as anywhere at Duchesne. “We had a few years drought there,” Duchesne coach Jerry Cowan said. The Eagles captured four consecutive state titles from 2010 to 2013 before regaining the crown last year. Ending that “drought” wa... Written by: Eric Butler - Salt Lake Tribune
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James Cordova has enjoyed the view from the mountain top as a coach, having guided his Bulldogs to three state titles during his tenure at Judge Memorial. It’s fair to say that he hasn’t often seen the bottom, like last season. Judge hit the nadir in 20... Written by: Eric Butler - Salt Lake Tribune
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Former NFL cornerback Andre Dyson continues his quest to bring Clearfield back to the prominence the Falcons experienced when he attended school there. There’s much more reason for optimism this year, Dyson’s fourth, based upon the end of the last campa... Written by: Eric Butler - Salt Lake Tribune
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Former NFL cornerback Andre Dyson continues his quest to bring Clearfield back to the prominence the Falcons experienced when he attended school there. There’s much more reason for optimism this year, Dyson’s fourth, based upon the end of the last campa... Written by: Eric Butler - Salt Lake Tribune
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After a four-year winless streak in the state tournament, the Box Elder Bees finally upended a higher-seeded team when they toppled Region 6’s top seeded Olympus in a thrilling first-round matchup last season. But coach Robbie Gunter has no time to b... Written by: Talon Chappell - Salt Lake Tribune
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After a four-year winless streak in the state tournament, the Box Elder Bees finally upended a higher-seeded team when they toppled Region 6’s top seeded Olympus in a thrilling first-round matchup last season. But coach Robbie Gunter has no time to b... Written by: Talon Chappell - Salt Lake Tribune
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The dozen years since Corey Dodds played his senior year with Utah during the Utes’ undefeated 2004 season have given him opportunities to get acquainted with plenty of high school football programs. But Copper Hills, which hasn’t seen the postseason si... Written by: Eric Butler - Salt Lake Tribune
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Although all of Brighton’s football title game appearances have come at the largest classification, some school officials in recent years wished the Bengals might be able to move down a class once in awhile. It finally happened. But what Brighton is get... Written by: Eric Butler - Salt Lake Tribune
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All of Ben Lomond’s skill position players who led the team last year in passing (Kenyon Harris), rushing (Angelo Rios) and receiving (Deontay Nish) graduated following a season that ended in a playoff appearance. “Going into the offseason, I was a litt... Written by: Eric Butler - Salt Lake Tribune
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Viewmont, no stranger to realignment and region shakeups, will be on the move again as it remains in Class 5A but jumps from the old Region 2 to the newly organized Region 5. Despite the change, the Vikings will be joining some old foes as their two ... Written by: Talon Chappell - Salt Lake Tribune
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An experienced senior class, including several that have been starters since they were sophomores, is the going-away present from Russ Jones. The only head coach Syracuse ever had known on the gridiron retired at the end of last season and turns over th... Written by: Eric Butler - Salt Lake Tribune
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Hillcrest coach Cazzie Brown isn’t averse to utilizing an acronym or two. His current message for the Huskies is TG3 — toughness, grit, guts and gratitude. And the former Highland High assistant doesn’t pull punches. “Hillcrest has always been the laugh... Written by: Eric Butler - Salt Lake Tribune
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Desert Hills did it again to Pine View. The Panthers needed a defensive stop on the 1-yard line to win the Class 3AA state title, but for the second time in four years, the Thunder pulled off a last-second stunner to keep the Panthers from winning th... Written by: Kendra Andrews - Salt Lake Tribune
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Coach Jed Smith, a Wyoming native, fairly quickly recognized one major problem that Cyprus High encountered on a yearly basis: Keeping players in Magna. “That’s been the problem,” Smith said about transfers heading to other schools in the Salt Lake Vall... Written by: Eric Butler - Salt Lake Tribune
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It’s been a steady upward progression in coach Mike Meifu’s two years on the job leading the Jaguars’ program. He was hired after West Jordan posted a 3-8 campaign in 2014 and led his first Jaguars team to a 5-5 record before turning in a winning record... Written by: Eric Butler - Salt Lake Tribune
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With one of the best offensive lines in the country and physicality at every position, the defending state champions from Utah are ready to prove last season was no fluke.
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St. George • The little boys, brothers, were basically inseparable. And if you wanted to find them, you could usually just walk from their village in American Samoa toward the sand. That’s where the game would be. “We were always on the beach playing tac... Written by: Aaron Falk - Salt Lake Tribune
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A trio of New Jersey teams along with a pair of Florida and California powers lead this group of fearless programs.
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The race for the top spot is tight, and the contenders for the title go all the way down to 3A.
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Syracuse senior Hunter Woodhall and Bingham senior Whitney Rich were honored as the Gatorade Utah track and field athletes of the year. Woodhall, who plans to compete at the University of Arkansas, won the 200 and 400 meters at the Class 5A st... Written by: Kevin Winters Morriss - Salt Lake Tribune
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Copper Hills senior Carlos Becerra was honored as the Gatorade Utah Boys Soccer Player of the Year, while Davis’ Olivia Wade was picked as the Gatorade Utah Girls Soccer Player of the Year. Becerra helped the Grizzlies reach the Class 5A state... Written by: Kevin Winters Morriss - Salt Lake Tribune
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The 2017 all-state boys’ soccer teams as voted on by the state’s coaches. Each coach was invited to vote for the top players in his team’s classification. Class 5A First team Forward • Aaron Nixon, Copper Hills Forward • Drake Cook, Viewmont Forward • Tyler Gundred, ... Written by: Salt Lake Tribune
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Ruben Castillo Juan Diego, Sr., Forward 23 goals, 11 assists Castillo scored in all but one game and scored multiple goals in a game seven times for the Soaring Eagle this season. He tallied seven goals during the state tournament to carry the defend... Written by: Talon Chappell - Salt Lake Tribune
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MaxPreps hosts Zack Poff and Myckena Guerrero present the most spectacular plays from a very entertaining year.
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MaxPreps, the online high school sports leader and The National Soccer Coaches Association of America team up to honor the nation's best. (Week of 5/17-5/23)
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Sandy • Juan Diego had seen this unfold before, but the Soaring Eagle didn’t care for the outcome last time. Juan Diego found itself in a similar spot to the 2016 boys’ lacrosse finale, when Brighton stormed back from a halftime deficit and overtook the... Written by: Eric Butler - Salt Lake Tribune
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Skyline freshman Connor Robb-Wilcox may stand only 5 foot 6, but he more than made up for it in heart. He proved instrumental in propelling the Eagles to the Class 4A boys’ tennis state title by defeating Timpview’s Josh Pearce in straight sets 6-2, 6-3... Written by: Adam Turner - Salt Lake Tribune
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It wasn’t looking good for Brighton freshman Redd Owen at No. 1 singles in the Class 5A boys’ tennis state tournament Saturday. Viewmont’s Jack Taylor, who finished runner-up at No. 1 singles last year, took the first set of the semifinals 6-2 and led 4... Written by: Adam Turner - Salt Lake Tribune
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Provo • Speedster Brinn Jensen never forgot that everything she did this year was helping to start a legacy at new school Skyridge. The Weber State-bound senior wrote her own illustrious chapter Saturday, earning Class 4A gold medals in the 100 meters (... Written by: Beky Beaton - Salt Lake Tribune
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Provo • Junior sprinter Dominic Bentil helped provide 36 of Lone Peak’s 59 points at the Class 5A boys’ state track meet Saturday, lifting the Knights into fifth place and a single point behind Weber. He blazed to the finish well in front of his competi... Written by: Beky Beaton - Salt Lake Tribune
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Spanish Fork • The dancing might go on for a while in Grantsville. The Cowboys, whose only state title trophy came almost 20 years ago in Class 2A, faced tradition-laden Bear River and its eight state crowns Saturday. Better make room in the Grantsville... Written by: Eric Butler - Salt Lake Tribune
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Orem • Cooper Vest was confident in his final at-bat. He had every reason not to be. His Dixie baseball team had not led through 6 2/3 innings in the Class 3A baseball state championship game Saturday. There were two outs in the bottom of the sevent... Written by: Johanna Huybers - Salt Lake Tribune
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Provo • It wasn’t exactly a surprise when American Fork senior Casey Clinger added yet another gold medal to his pile with a victory in the Class 5A boys’ 1,600-meter race, the opening event of the state meet Friday at BYU. It was just another day at th... Written by: Beky Beaton - Salt Lake Tribune
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Provo • Bingham freshman Hannah Stetler already traded state records in the pole vault with Westlake junior Adara Christensen earlier this year. The pair of friendly competitors train together on a club team run in the offseason by Miners coach Kody Pie... Written by: Beky Beaton - Salt Lake Tribune
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Here are three standout performers and three key numbers from the Day 1 of the state track and field championships at BYU. Nicole Freestone The Jordan junior broke her personal record by more than a foot with her throw of 129 feet, 8 3/4 inches to earn the gold in... Written by: Salt Lake Tribune
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Orem • Dixie doesn’t yet know its opponent in the Class 3A baseball state championship game, but it hardly seems to matter the way the Flyers are playing these days. Dixie dissected Park City 19-1 in a battle of the only two unbeatens left in the tourna... Written by: Eric Butler - Salt Lake Tribune
