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Oct. 30, 2001 BY JIM THOMAS It won’t be long before the prep winter sports season gets under way. In just about three weeks, wrestlers, girl swimmers, and boy and girls basketballers will be beginning official practices. The first day of practice is Nov. 12. All those athletes who are not playing a fall sport need to take care of all the paper work. Aside from getting a physical from a physician, they need to completely fill out parent/guardian release, insurance waiver, phyiscal form, and any traveling and/or training contract. Forms are available from the activities offices at school. Montezuma-Cortez High School competes in girls swimming, wrestling, and boys and girls basketball during the winter months. Dolores and Mancos compete in wrestling and boys and girls basketball. Dolores County participates in boys and girls basketball only. MCHS is a Class 4A school for those sports while Dolores, Dove Creek, and Mancos are Class 2A. There will be two new coaches are taking over programs. MCHS will have a new head wrestling coach. Karl McGee, who is currently head football coach, will take over the reins from Mike Allison. Allison resigned last spring in order to concentrate on his duties as Athletic Director. Dolores will have a new head boys basketball coach in Scott Story. He takes over for Todd Ware who resigned last spring in order to go back to college. Dolores County will have two new (one sort of) coaches for boys and girls basketball. Scott Crawford resigned as head boys’ coach at end of last school year. Kim Young, who guided the girls last season, resigned suddenly. Ty Gray, who was a standout player during the mid-1990s for Mancos and an assistant last year at DCHS, will be the new head boys’ coach. Jim Buffington, who retired a year ago after six straight seasons as head coach, is being called out of retirement to mentor the girls for the 2001-02 season only. Wade Mortensen will start his 13th season as head man of the boys’ program at MCHS. Stan Yake will start season number two with the girls. Mark Knox will once again head girls swimming. Mancos is standing pat right now. Gary Hill will change hats from principal to head boys basketball coach for his 21st season with the boys. Kevin Dimmick will guide the girls’ fortunes as he begins season no. 6. Travis Bryant will be sitting in the chair coaching the wrestling team for his fifth season. The Dolores girls basketball team will be headed up by Rob Mellott who begins his second year at the helm. Bill Kralicek will start his fourth year as head wrestling coach. Shane Baughman will be back for his sixth season in guiding the wrestling team at Dove Creek. |
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