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Buckaroo Stadium saw a huge turnout of students for the strength and conditioning workouts. The program began on Monday, July 13 with students working out from 9 a.m. until 11 a.m. for high school students/ athletes. Elementary and middle school students -
Khat Bell demonstrates a specific technique on fielding the ball in the Volleyball Skills Camp. The camp for the Lady Bucks began on Wednesday, July 15 and went through Saturday, July 18. Photo by Jean Hayworth -
Student/athletes of the Breckenridge Independent School District began strength and conditioning workouts on Monday, July 13. Students were encouraged to sprint the length of the field as the students prepare for the upcoming sports season. Buckaroos Stad -
Volleyball girls going through some stretching and warmup exercises during the Volleyball Skills Camp. The camp for the Lady Bucks began on Wednesday, July 15 and went through Saturday, July 18. Photo by Jean Hayworth
The new AD/Head Buckaroo Football coach, Casey Pearce, returned home to lead the Breckenridge Buckaroos this season, with conditioning skills training first on the agenda with the current group of Buckaroos and a crop of new coaches.
Pearce graduated from Breckenridge High School in 1993 and went to Howard Paine University, where he made a name for himself as a champion javelin thrower for the HSU track team and a qualifier for the Olympics.
All BISD awaits the latest word from Breckenridge ISD School Board Tuesday, July 14, as they meet to announce the process for classroom instruction moving forward supplemented by an online alternative if needed or a mixture of both in view of the latest spike in the COVID-19 Virus in Texas.
Under the leadership of Pearce, student/athletes have begun summer strength and conditioning workouts.
In anticipation for the upcoming sports season, student/ athletes were put through a meticulous workout from 9 to 10 a.m for grade school and middle students and until 11 a.m for high school students.
Older students performed coverage drills under the sun as the program started on Monday, July, 13 with a plethora of student/athletes showing up for workouts.
Students sprinted the length of Buckaroos Stadium and are getting into better shape for the upcoming season.
To better assist BISD students, Pearce will implement a pre athletics program for sixth-grade students. The program will train students on the expectations of the coaching staff in preparations for being a Breckenridge Buckaroo student/athlete.
Kassiah Hudson returns as the head volleyball coach after a rocky start at BISD last season, with many extenuating circumstances. To assist her this season is Kyrah Bailey from Abilene Hawley.
The Cross Country team has a husband and wife duo of Brian and Brittany Goehring. Bri an will be the head basketball coach for the girls and Brittany will be the junior high coordinator for girl’s sports.
Promptly at 9 a.m. Thursday, July 16, Kassiah Hudson began a three-day skills camp for volleyball for all high school girls. There were 27 student/ athletes in place by 8:30 a.m. and one straggler waltzed in by 8:45. She missed the first round of warm-ups but got into the swing of things quickly.
Coach Hudson had three accomplished college and post-college volleyball players to help with the camp and demonstrate skills. The head of that trio is Khat Bell who comes from the University of Texas, where she helped win a National Championship in 2012.
Bell garnered All-American honors three years in a row and helped her team win a Big 12 Championships for the Longhorns, after getting to the semi-finals three years in a row. The fourth time was the charm where they advanced to the NCAA finals and won the Big 12 Championship in 2012.
In 2012, Khat Bell was named the Cobra Magazines National Defensive Player of the Year. Since graduating, Bell has played overseas with the Petron Blaze Spikers in the Philippines.
Ashley Mariani played volleyball at the Univ. of Tennessee and the University of Iowa, a Hawkeye. She started as an outside hitter on the right side and moved to middle blocker. At Iowa, Mariani started all 33 matches and in 2015, she registered 221 kills and 32 service aces.
In her senior year, Mariani played all 110 sets with 221 kills, 71 blocks, and was named the Big 10 Sportsmanship Award and the team’s MVP. During her college career, Mariani had 902 kills, 262 digs, and 203 blocks. After graduation, Mariani played on an International team in Germany. She will begin her coaching career this fall as a Graduate Assistant with the New Haven Chargers.
The third member of the trio is Anna Mooney from Holy Cross in Lynchburg, Va. She is just beginning her collegiate career this fall.
Coach Mark Young, track and field coach, had the rest of the girls, who were not playing volleyball, in the weight room with another new face, Coach Cameron Prewitt. The Cross Country girls may have been part of this group as well.
Everyone awaits an announcement from the UIL for the 2020 sports season.
