Sports Ink., October 2015

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A FAMILY AFFAIR Hoxie’s Terran Hoyt does not plan to follow the family trend of making her career on the sideline.

At least, not by design.

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Thomas More Prep-Marian’s Andrew Hess (center) and Larned’s Danyon Green (left) ascend a hill, while Lucas Roths — the eventual winner — trails during the Monarchs’ cross country meet Sept. 5 at TMP. Vinny Benedetto, Sports Ink.

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Tigers look tough

Brandon Zenner details why FHSU could be one of the top MIAA teams in 2015

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Last in line Terran Hoyt is the fourth Hoyt sister to play for her mom at

Hoxie, but she might not follow her sisters and mom into coaching.

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Eyeing the next level

Barton Community College sophomore and Hays High School graduate Jordan Windholz is looking to catch the eye of

four-year colleges in hiis final season at the juco level.

Sports Ink. contributors: Nick McQueen nmcqueen@dailynews.net Brandon Zenner bzenner@dailynews.net, Vinny Benedetto vbenedetto@dailynews.net, Jolie Green jgreen@dailynews.net.

On the cover: Hoxie senior Terran Hoyt, left, and her mother and coach Shelly Hoyt, and volleyball practice in Hoxie.

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Many ways to win in 2015 What a difference a year can make. a 44-yard catch by Flory sparked the Tigers to give clichés of wanting to get better every Since the Fort Hays State Univestiy football victory. Flory had one TD, while Cooper also single day, but they believe they can win this team opened its 2014 campaign with an em- showed off his hands for two receiving TDs conference and make a return to the playoffs barassing home loss to Central Oklahoma, on two catches and 34 yards. for the first time since the mid-90s. things have changed.

The Tigers can do the little things. FHSU But the one trait that this team has that As of the 2015 season opener, the Tigers had three players record more than 10 tackles, can help them make a run in 2015 is their had gone 8-3 in their past 11 games. The led by Brock Long’s 14. Junior safety DeAndre ability to not be individuals and become a game marked the fourth straight the Tigers James recorded 13 tackles for the secondary, streak of Tigers. No single individual would rushed for more than 200 yards. And their which is a masterful feat. have been able to bring FHSU back from confidence has grown exponentially.

The Tigers can do the big things. The Tigers a 20-point deficit, on the road, against a Despite it being just had 10 plays of more than predicted top-three finisher in the MIAA and one game to take from, 15 yards in the opener, a team that receieved votes for the AFCA Top For starters these guys felt disrepected including a 79-yard scam25 to start the season. Sure, this team has based on their body of per from Cooper for his phenomenal talented individuals. Linework from last season. The rushing TD, and complebackers Justin McPhail and Brock Long can MIAA team to make it the tions of 34 and 44 yards to play with anyone in the conference. Senior furthest in the postseason Flory. The defense helped bandit Daniel Lindsey can do the same. last year — Pittsburg State with forcing four Bronchos Flory showed his ability to be one of the lost in the second round fumbles. conference’s top receievers. The list goes on — lost at home to the Tigers, who went 7-4.

The Tigers aren’t afraid of the conference’s and on.

The Tigers won their final three games of the big dogs. Central Oklahoma was picked third Because of this being written before Week season. in the MIAA preseason poll, and the Tigers 2 started, I’m not sure what the Tigers’ Despite what Weeks 2 and 3 bring to the had all the confidence in the world before record is as they welcome Pitt State to table — FHSU hosted Northeastern State, kickoff in Edmond. They showed it last year Lewis Field Stadium. If it is 3-0, expect a who was 0-1 after Week 1 and lost every against Pitt State. They surely will show it bloodbath. If it is 1-2, expect a bloodbath. If game in 2014, and travelled to Lindenwood, again Saturday in front of their home fans. they’re 4-0 after Saturday, don’t expect it to a team that started 1-0 after going 2-9 in The Tigers believe in themselves. Sure, they stop there.

2014, in Week 3 — the Tigers showed in Week 1 they can compete with anybody in the conference; this includes their Week 4 opponent Pitt State.

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And the majority of it was without their No. 2 running back, redshirt-freshman Malik Thomas, and it was all without No. 1 running, Kenneth Iheme. Instead, sophomore running back Shaquille Cooper threw on a jersey for the first time in more than two years and dashed for a league-high 163 yards in Week 1. Oh yeah, and senior quarterback Treveon Albert has wheels and showed it on his 94 rushing yards.

This team can indeed throw and catch the ball. While 163 yards of passing from Albert is not going to grab any league records, that is all his new offensive coaches Jeff Bryant and Philip Vigil are asking of him because the Tigers can rush behind a veteran offensive line. And 112 of those receiving yards were dished out to another newcomer, senior Central Michigan transfer wideout Agriculture • Oil & Gas • Residential • Commercial Andrew Flory.

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Notable performances in northwest Kansas Shaquille Cooper

The sophomore running back for the Fort Hays State University Tigers was instrumental in the season-opening 30-29 victory at the Central Oklahoma Bronchos. With junior running back Kenneth Iheme sidelined and redshirt-freshman RB picking up an injury in the first quarter, Cooper came in and led the Tigers’ offense with 163 yards rushing on 21 carries and one touchdown.

In the passing game, Cooper recorded two catches, both resulting in touchdowns on 26 and 6 yards. Cooper’s 195 all-purpose yards put him as the league’s top skill position player and the MIAA leader in touchdowns, rushing yards and all-purpose yards.

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The Norton Bluejays’ senior had a monster game in Norton’s season opener Sept. 4 against Ellis. Lively hauled in touchdown receptions of 45 and 75 yards on his way to 360 all-purpose yards and four touchdowns as the Bluejays won 54-12. He rushed for 174 yards and hauled in 136 receiving, making a case for one of the top performances in the state for Week 1.

Maurizio Costa

The Fort Hays State sophomore forward poured in goals during the Tigers’ opening weekend at the Northeastern State tournament. Costa converted the game-winning goal from the penalty spot in the team’s 3-2 win over Missouri S&T on Sept. 4.

Two days later, he added both goals in FHSU’s 2-0 win over Truman State, scoring once in each half.

He’s scored three goals in two games and also added an assist in the Tigers’ opener.

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The Ness City senior took first place at the Thomas More Prep-Marian cross country meet on Sept. 5, finishing in 17 minuites, 22 seconds. Roths beat the second-place runner by nearly 30 seconds. By the end of the season, he said he wants to trim his time to 16:30 and place in the top five at the Class 2A state meet.

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A Family Affair Hoxie senior Terran Hoyt does not plan to follow her family’s tradition of becoming a coach.

That doesn’t mean it’s out of the picture.

Hoxie senior Terran Hoyt, left, is the youngest of Shelly Hoyt’s four daughters. Shelly has coached for the better part of two decades at Hoxie and two of Terran’s three sisters followed their mother’s footsteps and became coaches.

By BRANDON ZENNER, Sports Ink.

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oxie — Rarely does a night at the Hoyts’ dinner table go by without a conversation about sports. From Hoxie volleyball and basketball to Nebraska Cornhushkers football, the Hoyts live and breathe sports.

And when their high school playing days or done, the Hoyts are 3 of 4 on returning to the sideline.

Terran, the youngest of Shelly’s four daughters, is not intending to follow the family trend of going into education and coaching.

At least, not by design.

••• As a group of junior high girls stroll through the halls of Hoxie High School after school, the sound of volleyballs richocheting from one set of arms to the next draws them to the gym. On the way, they pass a trophy case. They don’t give a quick glance. Moreso, they delve into the realm of possibility of how their future as a Hoxie athlete could bring.

“Wouldn’t that be so cool if that was us one day?,” one says to another.

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Terran has seen her fair share of success at Hoxie. Having been around for three years of Hoxie’s 95-game winning streak in girls’ basketball, she is among the faces and names that rest in the trophy case outside of Hoxie’s gym.

“Basketball’s something that brought our family together,” Terran said. “It was never just a game.

It’s kind of how we bonded and how we spend our time together.

It’s obviosuly different than other families.”

Having spent countless weekends and summers in the gym together has brought out the best of the mother-daughter relationship and helped the duo bond. Having been the lone daughter in the house for the past eight years has only strengthened it.

“She was always in the gym with me from the time she was little,” Shelly said. “She’s had a lot of time with me and my husband (Scott) by herself.

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File photo, Sports Ink. Hoxie senior Terran Hoyt has been a member of the basketball team for the past three years, being a part of three championship teams.

“She’s had a lot of time with it being just the three of us so the older ones always kid her that she’s spoiled and gets everything.

She’s had a lot of mom and dad time, and a lot of mom time. ...

It’s very quality time. (It’s) time I wouldn’t trade for anything.”

Jacie, 28, is an assistant coach for the K-State women’s basketball team. Corinna, 25, coaches and teaches at Phillipsburg, while Tabitha, 34, remains close to Hoxie, teaching in Wheatland-Grinnell.

“I tell my mom I have four moms and no sisters,” Terran said.

“If I go out or something, they’ll text me at my curfew and ask if I’m home yet. ... They are people I can tell everything to but they are kinda my mom.”

Being an athlete-coach pair means lots of talk of practices and games at home away from the court. But the pair goes to each for advice.

Terran recalls multiple times when her mom would set up cups in the kitchen and have her driblle a ball around them to practice a possible drill for the next day of practice. But the the background has been nothing but good for the Hoxie senior.

“Having my mom as a coach has it’s ups and downs, as with anything. I think it’s definitely changed me as a person. ... It’s something I actually talk about quite a lot. I think it’s made me who I am. I feel like I kind of had to grow up faster with my mom as a coach. I kind of had to handle more things in high school, but it’s something I wouldn’t trade. With my sisters coaching, I just always knew what coaches were looking for and it kinda shaped me as a player, too.”

••• Terran is not wasting any time to decide her future; Shelly has always said she is the “brains of the family” and mature beyond her age.

And with the opportunities she wants to pursue, it’s not a given that coaching will be the option of choice.

“I don’t think so,” Terran said. “If there was an opportunity to open up, then I might. But it’s not what I’m going into right now.

My major’s declared as Pre-Med so I’m hoping to go into pediatric neurology.”

With having an entire family of coaches, the conversations are easy. Shellys said she’s not quite ready to participate in talks at the kitchen table about medicine.

File photo, Sports Ink Hoxie senior Terran Hoyt (3) and Scout Washington (6) go for a block against Waverly in the Class 1A Division I state volleyball thirdplace match in November at Gross Memorial Coliseum.

But continuing her career in basketball is not out of the realm of possibility while working toward her future off the court.

Terran has multiple offers to out-of-state Division III schools and junior colleges, while she has made contact with out-ofstate Division II schools.

“Picturing my life without basketball is

really weird,” Terran said, “and not something I really want. I’ve wanted to play college basketball since I could remember, obviously coming from all of my sisters playing college basketball and my mom being my coach.”

Whether she decides to forego playing basketball or goes to a junior college,

Terran said she is most likely to end up with her sister at Kansas State as a part of the women’s basketball team. She does have the slightest of itches to follow her family’s path, the opporunity just might be a trial that changes her career’s direction.

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File photo, Sports Ink. Hoxie High School head coach Shelly Hoyt gives instructions to her team on March 5, 2015 during the second round of the Class 1A Division I sub-state tournament against Victoria High School at the Quinter High School gym.

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“If I chose not to play, I would go to K-State and be a manager for the basketball team,” Terran said. “My sister being on the K-State staff kinda hooks that up so if I wanted to be a manager, I have an option. ... I love coaching, actually. ... I just don’t know if I see that’s where my career’s heading.”

••• Having been the lone daughter around the house has made for lots of alone time with parents. The time is spent so more with mom, who drives Terran to AAU basketball practices in the offseason in Garden City. When the team isn’t practicing, she is travelling to Dallas or other places across the country for Terran’s tournaments.

And with her leaving in less than a year, Terran isn’t ready to let go of the bond she has built with her parents; especially her mother and coach.

“It definitely makes it alot harder, something I don’t like to think about,” Terran said. “It kinda changes the relationship because I really didn’t have any sisters to talk to or anyone like that. I just had to go to my parents. Since it was always us three, I spent most of my Friday night’s watching movies with parents, which most kids my age don’t do.

“It will be a big change and I might ask her to move with me, too.”

But Shelley and Terran are not quite done being a coach-athlete force at Hoxie. Terran is a key player on Hoxie’s volleyball team, which started it’s 2015 campaign with a 4-0 record with hopes of another deep playoff run.

When it comes to basketball, the state knows what to expect from Hoxie. The program has won four consecutive state championships.

That is an even bigger discussion at the dinner table. Beyond coaching them in sports, she hopes Terran and all of her daughters have bigger takeaways than winning games or state titles.

“Jacie and Corrina were on the same team so they are always comparing and saying,

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‘Our team would have beat the team you’re on,’” Hoyt said. “We raised our daughters to be strong, confident young ladies, which sometimes offends some people. I want them to be leaders, which can be risky because you take the chance of losing friends, especially if you’re a strong leader.

“I want my daughters and my players to know that if they work hard enough, they will succeed not only on the court but more importantly off the court (but) in their professional lives.”

With the future looming, Shelly will be proud no matter what the youngest Hoyt from Hoxie decides to go into.

“I think one of Terran’s strengths is the fact that she is more than an athlete,” Shelly said. “She is a well-rounded student-athlete with the student part of that being her focal point. Her dad and I are proud of the hard work she puts into whatever she does and the leader she is becoming.”

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in mind Former HHS player hoping to impress in final year at junior college

By VINNY BENEDETTO, Sports Ink. Jordan Windholz didn’t know which sport, basketball or soccer, he would pursue before he tore his ACL during a basketball game his junior year at Hays High School.

Now a sophomore basketball player at Barton Community College, the 6-foot-2 shooter has his sights set on making it to the highest levels of college basketball.

“My goal is to go DI,” Windholz said. “I don’t want to settle for anything less.”

The decision to focus on hoops came when he struggled to avoid minor injuries on the soccer field. His surgically repaired knee seemed to handle the hardwood better.

To reach his dreams of playing at the Division I level, however, he’ll have to improve on a freshman campaign that was slowed by a minor knee injury at the start of the season.

The injury prevented Windholz from participating in important early season practices, but transitioning from being one of the Indians’ star players Jordan Windholz to a reserve for the Cougars didn’t is a sophomore at impact his outlook.

“Some jucos don’t have that kinda Barton Community College. body language,” Hays High coach Rick Keltner said. “(He’s a) guy that was a positive.”

Even without the injury, Windholz joined a team of talented players that come from East Coast basketball hotbeds such as New York City, Washington D.C. and Toronto.

“I kinda knew we were going to have DI athletes here, so I wasn’t expecting the be the best,” Windholz said of his first year at the school.

While he admitted it was a little intimidating sharing a court with players of such pedigree, he believes the challenge has and will continue to make him better.

“They honestly just make you better every day,” he said.

Windholz hopes his shooting ability will attract the attention of college coaches in his second season of juco ball.

As a freshman, Windholz appeared in 20 games and made better than 41% of his attempts from three-point range.

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He’s aiming for the school’s single season record for three-pointers made this season.

“He’s good enough to play at a college somewhere,” Keltner said. “It just depends on his year.”

To improve his chances of securing another scholarship, Windholz said he is working on counter moves.

With a budding reputation as a lethal shooter, the Hays native is working on dribble drives and moves off pump fakes to beat defenders aggressively closing out on his jump shot.

While his high school coach described him as a quick and gifted athlete who was a strong triple jumper for the Indians’ track teams, his athleticism doesn’t appear to be his greatest asset at the collegiate level. He described some his teammates athletic abilities as “crazy,” he’s learned that they’re not all that different than him.

“I just realized they bleed the same blood as me,” he said.

“It’s all about hard work and determination and believing in yourself.”

According to his former coach, the shooter’s willingness to put in hours in the gym is not in question.

“Jordan’s a guy that will come to work,” Keltner said. “He’s got a good work ethic.”

The hours in the gym helped Windholz adjust from playing high school ball in Hays to playing in the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference, one of the best junior college leagues in America.

“You can’t come in here scared or not ready to go,” Windholz said.

“Otherwise you’re going to get eaten alive.”

The days of intimidation are in Windholz’s rearview. Now the focus is on using his sophomore season to secure a place to play as a junior and a senior. If Division I ball isn’t meant to be, the skilled shooter hasn’t ruled out a return home to become a Tiger after helping lead the Indians to a 23-0 regular season as a senior.

“If they recruited me, I’d give them a look,” Windholz said of Fort Hays State.

According to Windholz, Barton returns six sophomores from last year’s team that lost in the first round of the Region VI Playoffs. This year, the goal is to extend the postseason run.

“I think we’re going to be a scary team,” he said.

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