El Reno High School’s football program was slated to wrap up its four days of non-contact preseason drills on Thursday, before putting the pads on for the first time this preseason on Friday.
The Indians will travel to Elk City Aug. 19 for their lone scrimmage.
El Reno’s Maizlynn Steenbergen, a fifth-grader at Banner School, recently won the Girls 11 and Under age bracket during the 2022 Lake Hefner Golf Championship.
El Reno High School’s football program kicked off two-a-day preseason football drills Monday morning on the turf at Memorial Stadium.
The Indians will be in shorts and helmets through Thursday while following heat acclimation protocol set forth by the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association.
El Reno will have its first practice in full pads on Friday.
NORMAN – Being billed as an upper echelon team with state tournament potential, Calumet High School’s baseball program wasted little time in testing those predictions.
The Chieftains, under new head coach Cody Thiessen, opened up the 2022 fall season with a 5-3 win over Rattan in the Best of the Best East vs. West Baseball Festival.
Rattan was a 25-game winner last spring and made the Class A state quarterfinals. Calumet posted a 22-win season run that ended in the regional finals.
A year ago, El Reno High School’s softball team went on the road and beat higher-seeded Duncan twice to earn a trip to the Class 5A State Championships – the program’s second trip in three seasons.
Now the Indians head into their 2022 season opener Monday against Yukon looking to prove that their 2021 efforts were no fluke.
With temperatures expected to reach near triple digits, El Reno High School’s football team will begin preseason workouts Monday with a non-traditional two-a-days schedule.
“We will practice from 7 to 9 in the mornings, take a break, then return about 9:30 and finish up by 11 a.m.,” said head coach Russell Cook.
As part of its policy for heat-related practices, the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association (OSSAA) requires every football player to take part in a four-day acclimation period – no matter when they report for drills.
A pair of El Reno High School’s key players over the past two seasons wrapped up their prep careers the same way they started it together – in the win column.
Tetona Blackowl, who transferred from Calumet prior to the 2020-21 season, and four-year EHS starter Ashlyn Evans-Thompson donned red jerseys to play for the Large West in the 2022 Oklahoma Coaches Association’s All-State Basketball Game.
El Reno High School’s softball team kicked off its preseason scrimmage schedule last week at home against Rush Springs.
El Reno is slated to host Union City in a scrimmage this week in preparation for the season opener Aug. 8 against Yukon.
Being close to the winner’s circle on several occasions during the Southern Drag Boat Association’s season, only to have the proverbial rug pulled out from underneath them at the last second, El Reno’s Matt and Radley Miller both needed a confidence boost.
What better place to find it than in their own backyard.
The father-daughter duo both won divisional titles at the 2022 Smoke on the Water Drag Boat Races last weekend on Lake El Reno. While the victories don’t count in the SDBA season points, both agree a win is a win.
Vincent Walker always dreamed of one day playing in a Major League Baseball stadium, but never imagined it would happen before he ever threw a pitch in college.
The El Reno High School graduate was one of 50 players from across the nation and Canada to be selected to the inaugural Native American All-Star Baseball Showcase.
The three-day event was co-sponsored by the 7G Foundation and the Atlanta Braves. It was held inside the MLB franchise’s home stadium – the 41,084-seat Truist Park.
