A famous quote from the basketball movie Hoosiers is: Five players on the floor functioning as one single unit: team, team, team - no one more important than the other.
It's a phrase that El Reno High School's girls basketball team has been living out over the first six games of the 2021-22 season.
While the All-State teams will not be decided until January, El Reno High School's football program should have several players in contention for Oklahoma's highest prep honor after a strong showing in recent voting for All-District.
El Reno had five seniors named to the All-District 5A-1 team, all first-team picks, following a season in which the Indians had to forfeit a pair of non-district games due to COVID-19.
EDMOND – After a run through the junior college ranks, including surgeries and rehab stints for both a wrist and knee injury, El Reno native Callen Haydon says he finally feels at ease with his basketball career.
“I’m comfortable and I feel like I’m at home. I’m in a happy place right now and my body feels good and Ivm confident in my game,” said Haydon.
That’s good news for the University of Central Oklahoma men’s basketball team as Haydon, in his second year here, has started the first 11 games of the season at point guard.
El Reno High School sent 11 wrestlers to the 2021 Kansas City Stampede, with nine posting one victory or more and the Indians earning one placer in the stout field.
There were 54 schools and more than 425 wrestlers representing several states including Oklahoma, Iowa, Alabama, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, Tennessee, Texas, Louisiana and Minnesota.
El Reno High School senior Caroline Huber recently signed a national letter of intent to play soccer next season for Seminole State College. Huber is a returning three-year starter for the Indians.
Jaxon Olive signed with Northern Oklahoma College recently for a baseball scholarship starting with the 2022-23 term.
Olive is a senior at Calumet High School and was joined by family, Anthony Bryner, Jadon Olive, Jaclyn Bryner and Layne Olive.
January 4, 2022
Wrestling vs. Weatherford
Junior High (6 p.m.)
Varsity (7 p.m.)
Jenks Simmons Field House
January 6, 2022
Wrestling vs. Guthrie
Junior High (6 p.m.)
Varsity (7 p.m.)
Jenks Simmons Field House
January 6-8, 2022
Boys & Girls Basketball @ Anadarko Invitational
January 11, 2022
Boys & Girls Basketball vs. Del City
Girls (6 p.m.)
Boys (7:30 p.m.)
Jenks Simmons Field House
PIEDMONT – Seven different players scored for El Reno High School’s girls basketball team in a cross-county rivalry game with Piedmont as the Indians closed the 2021 portion of their schedule with a 55-30 victory.
The Wildcats, holding the seventh spot in the Class 5A poll, were the sixth straight ranked team for El Reno to play this season. The Indians, ranked third in the same 5A poll, improved to 5-1 overall.
PIEDMONT – Quick starts have been key for El Reno High School’s boys basketball team and the Indians did it again in the first of two rivalry meetings with Piedmont.
The Indians used a 22-10 break in the first period and then held off a second-half charge by the Wildcats for a 61-52 victory.
With its third win in a row, El Reno, ranked 12th in Class 5A, improved to 4-2 on the season.
El Reno High School’s wrestling team was one of several ranked Oklahoma programs to take part in the 2021 Kansas City Stampede held in Missouri over the weekend.
Niko Gonzalez, Dailey Jennings and Rylee Walborn, shown here in a recent dual with Blanchard, were among the 11 grapplers the Indians took to the national tourney.
See story in an upcoming issue.
(Tribune photographer/Glen Miller)
