The Pepper Box l Back to School Edition l 11
Fall sports close look FOOTBALL Head Coach Yarmon Kirksey - “The 2021 Ritenour Football Team is young and very talented. We are showing promise and we will be a dangerous team to play in district playoffs at the end of the month. Offensively, we are Photo by: RHS Athletics led by Elijah Fry, Jayden Barnett, Junior Elijah Fry rushes Anthony Darevsky, Eli Mitchell, against Fox. Isaac Biayi and Leon MitchellWilliams. Defensively, we are led by Billy Hall, Micheal Smith McCaleb, Percy Childs, Neko Gibson, and Carlos Shelton.”
GIRLS TENNIS Head Coach Beth Seibold - “The 2021-2022 Season for Girls Tennis will be a rebuilding year for the program. With only 2 returning players from the past season four new girls have joined the team. Margaret Susovica and An Nguyen are Photo by: Michelle Everett returning to the team and Sophomore An Nguyen Nadyah MajeedAli, Kierstin competes in Districts. Ford, Chloe Sapp and Tatiana Floyd are new this year to the program. The girls have all worked incredibly hard to be able to compete with the other teams in our conference.”
VOLLEYBALL
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Coach Ellen Kim speaks to her team in a match against St. Charles West
Head Coach Ellen Kim - “The Husky volleyball team has some returning starters in Maddi Travis, Rene’ Nelson, Jada Bradley, and Carmen Lee-Taylor. Lexi Hahn will join us this season after taking last season to play club. Some key new players look to be: Daisy Luviano, Allie Hansen, and Ciboney Damian.”
SOCCER Head Coach Mike Mayberry - “The Ritenour Boys Soccer team looks strong and has played well in each game. The offense looks as though it will be potent with such seniors as Richard McNary, Giovanni Jones, Fidel Lopez, and Yemil Lopez attacking opposition defenses. The Huskies’ defense is anchored by juniors, Aaron Rico and Ray Reardean.”
SOFTBALL Junior Liz Dobbs - “ In the softball organization, we pride ourselves on our academics first and foremost. Both on and off the diamond, we carry ourselves with pride for our team as well as our school. While our academics take top Photo by: RHS Athletics priority, our athletics are not Sophomore Savannah matched, you will find the most Greathouse pitches driven athletes on our Ritenour against University softball team. Last year being City. our most successful season, we went undefeated and this year, we are planning to be district champs.”
CROSS COUNTRY
Junior Adriana Gutierrez-Gaona - “Our races consist of a 5k (3.1 miles), a mens and women’s Varsity and JV race. To be able to score points, you need a full team consisting of five or more runners. Currently, we have a full women’s JV team, two boys running Varsity, and three boys running JV. Our team might be small, but we have strong and committed runners.”
BOYS SWIM Coach Jennifer Wakefield - “We are a fall sport so we are currently in season. We lost a lot of seniors last year, so we are in a rebuilding year.” Photo by: RHS Athletics
Freshman Jackson Leong competes in a meet this season.
