More than 30 youth soccer players from the area took part in a skills camp at Memorial Stadium.
The three-day camp was hosted by El Reno High School soccer coaches Anthony Klipp and Joe Patton.
Individual skills such as dribbling, passing and shooting were taught as well as team concepts. Games were played that tested those skills.
Campers run and slide through a wall of water and a rainbow to end a free three-day youth football skills camp conducted by El Reno High School’s football program, the EHS Quarterback Club and local youth football organizers at Memorial Stadium recently.
The water was shot from a cannon on one of the platform trucks used by the El Reno Fire Department and the rainbow was formed by the sun shining through the wall of water.
El Reno High School’s volleyball program held a youth skills camp recently at Jenks Simmons Field House.
Fifty-six campers were broken down into two sessions by age and skill levels.
Though it ended with an overtime shootout loss, El Reno High School graduate Conley Knapp is happy with the way she and classmate Ja’Niya Loreto closed out their high school careers.
The pair started for the West in the 2025 Oklahoma Soccer Coaches Association’s Class 5A All-State Game, with Knapp serving as one of the team’s captains.
“I think I played pretty well. It was hot outside so I felt like the game was pretty slow, but I still think I did pretty well,” said Knapp.
Four El Reno High School graduates made key impacts for their teams in the 2025 Oklahoma Native All-State Association’s Basketball Games played in Okmulgee.
Lilly Thomas and Emmary Elizondo played the second of three elite games, helping the girls Blue team to an 81-66 win over the Red.
For only the second time her senior year, Thomas was held scoreless but did pull down nine rebounds, with two steals and a blocked shot.
Calumet High School’s Cody Thiessen was looking forward to coaching his son, Kyler one last time in the 2025 Oklahoma Baseball Coaches Association’s All-State Game.
Thiessen was selected to coach the Small West team along with Cashion’s Blake Mounce. His oldest son was picked as one of four infielders.
“Yes, it was emotional,” said Thiessen.
As it turns out, the father-son duo would get only three more innings together. A rainstorm in Enid halted the game after three innings.
After two of its three summer outings, El Reno High School’s girls basketball coach Jennifer Douglas has been reminding her players one simple phrase.
“Trust the process,” said Douglas.
The Indians have four wins and just as many close calls as the back-to-back Class 5A state champions have been dealing with retooling an offense hit hard by graduation.
OKLAHOMA CITY – Due to several veteran holdovers committed to travel ball teams or nursing nagging injuries, El Reno High School baseball coach Keith Hill has switched up his summer routine.
Instead of playing in the annual Red Dirt League, Hill has put a junior varsity team in an independent league splitting dates between Southeast and Putnam City. Hill has been mixing in the veteran players when available.
“I wanted to focus on developing those younger kids who will be key for us next spring,” said Hill.
El Reno High School’s girls basketball program recently held a two-day youth skills camp.
Each day had two sessions where fundamentals such as dribbling, passing, shooting and rebounding were taught.
Miscommunication on the game’s final play between backup quarterback Zane Balentine and El Reno’s Xzavier Karty kept the West out of the end zone and the win column during the 2025 Oklahoma Native All-State Association's Football Game.
Central Sallisaw’s Xhaiden Mosby intercepted Balentine’s pass in the end zone with 19 seconds to play, sealing the East’s 7-6 victory.
“It was going to me. It was an out and up route and I guess there was some miscommunication,” said Karty.
