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Tom Lee has been named as the new athletic director and an assistant principal at Omaha Central following Darin Williams’ promotion to principal of Hale Middle School.
Lee has been the Eagles’ girls basketball coach for the past three years, taking them to the Class A state championship in 2012. He also has coached in the Omaha Public Schools at North and Burke, winning a state title with North. He was that school’s athletic director for four years.…
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Crusaders’ Elliston wins award
Maddie Elliston is the state’s Gatorade girls soccer player of the year and the third from Omaha Marian.
The 5-foot-2 junior defender and midfielder, a Penn State commitment, helped Marian card 22 consecutive shutouts over two years. She had a goal and three assists this season as the Crusaders (13-2) advanced to the Class A state semifinals.
A member of the U.S. under-18 women’s national team, she is ranked 12th in the 2014 recruiting class by TopDrawerSoccer.com.
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Not once, but three times in the past two years at the state track meet, Wayne State throws recruit Michaela Dendinger lost to the final contestant in the competition.
This year in Class D, it was Jordan Lempka of Sterling thwarting Dendinger …
Best on the track: Lincoln Pius X, which had won the Class A girls 3,200 relay three of the past four years without getting an all-class gold medal, broke through with the foursome of Sarah Kottwitz, Tarin Van Slyke, Megan Drozda and Alyssa Thavenet running the No. 5 time all time at 9:25.16.
Best in the field: Tierra Williams of Auburn went to No. 2 on the all-time chart in the girls long jump with a wind-aided leap of 20-1¼ for an all-class gold.
Surprise of the day: Pius X’s boys finished fourth in their loaded district in the 3,200 relay, but ended up on top in a NASCAR-like finish. Jacob Holtmeier got to the line first to bring home golds for him and teammates …
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Papillion-La Vista junior Kenzo Cotton grabbed the Class A state meet record in the 100-meter dash by running 10.51 in Friday’s heats at Burke Stadium.
Cotton’s personal best is a wind-aided 10.41 at last year’s state meet. That mark is second all-time on The World-Herald chart for electronic timing.
Lincoln Pius X opened the two-day meet by setting school records in the girls and boys 3,200 relays to win Class A titles. The Pius girls are now fifth on the all-time list.…
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Going for the first time to Burke Stadium for the Nebraska high school track and field meet? Or has it been a while since you last were there, and the football field was still grass? Here’s a primer to get you through the 42nd annual weekend:
ESSENTIALS
Check the forecast. Friday morning and Saturday afternoon could see thunderstorms, with daytime temperatures in the 80s. Wear comfortable shoes with a tread because you may end up sitting on one of the stadium’s hillsides when the seats fill up for Saturday’s finals. Rain makes the hillsides slick, too. Umbrellas and coolers are not allowed inside the stadium.
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From the west on the West Dodge Expressway, stay in the right lanes to exit onto West …
The Metro Conference track meet, because of inclement weather, has been canceled. It’s the first time since the league’s inception in 1964-65 that the meet has not been completed. In 1999, it took three extra days to finish the pole vault competition because of inclement weather. In 1995, the meet postponed its second-day events by one day.
On Tuesday, three track finals and three field finals were scheduled and completed for both boys and girls.
Also canceled is the River Cities Conference track meet at Ralston, which had been pushed back from Thursday to Friday before league athletic directors Thursday agreed to scrub it.
The Eastern Midlands Conference meet at Bennington has been postponed from Thursday to Monday at 3:30 p.m.
District meets are next Wednesday for Classes A and D …
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Jared Anderson was named the next boys basketball coach at Omaha North, school Athletic Director Jim Savio said.
Anderson has been an assistant at Omaha Bryan for Tim Cannon, who’s also leaving the Bears to coach Millard North.
A 1999 Bryan graduate who was All-Nebraska second team and All-Metro as a senior, Anderson played for UNO and was a starter on the 2004 Bellevue University team that lost in the NAIA national championship game.
Anderson will take over for Ryan Mlnarik as the Vikings’ coach.…
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Because of rain, the Millard West girls tennis invitational set for Monday has been canceled and the Bellevue West track and field invitational postponed. Bellevue West A.D. Kevin Broderick said he hopes to reschedule the Thunderbirds’ meet for later in the week.…
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Omaha Bryan boys basketball coach Tim Cannon, after 28 years at the school, will be the new coach at Millard North.
Cannon, whose 400th career win came during this past season, will be the replacement for Chip Bahe, who’s leaving Millard North to be an assistant coach at Hastings College.
Cannon said he met with his Bryan players Tuesday to tell them of his decision. He already had filed for early retirement from teaching with the Omaha Public Schools, but was considering staying at Bryan to be a coach only.…
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Jamie Opfer has been promoted to head football coach at Seward, where he was an assistant the past 14 years on Greg Welch’s staff. Welch resigned after the 2012 season with a 109-79 record at Seward and 197-117 overall. Also, Kevin Simmerman is replacing Steve Borer as the Seward athletic director. Simmerman has been the A.D. at Cozad and earlier at Fairbury.
Carlie Wells, who took Elgin/Pope John to the 2011 and 2012 Eight Man-1 football titles, has been hired as football coach and athletic director at Perkins County. Chip Kay, who held both positions at Perkins County, is the new superintendent at Shelby/Rising City.…
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