PAGE 7 FALL SPORTS 2016 Youmans Excited To Take Cross Country Helm BY MICHAEL HAMMOND sports@yankton.net Yankton head track coach and cross country assistant of 10 years, Luke Youmans, will take over the reins of the Yankton cross country team in 2016. Youmans brings experience in the sport after assisting under Dan Fitzsimmons and Dave Dannenbring at Yankton. “I don’t expect too monumental of changes,” Youmans said. “I’ve coached with Dan Fitzsimmons and Dave Dannenbring and we’ve all coached together and have a similar philosophy on coaching and training, so Yankton dance coach Anne Kinsley addresses the gather- really nothing will be that ing at the YHS Booster Club Kickoff on Aug. 22. different.” Not much will be different with the girls’ team either, who lose last year’s state meet runner-up, Savannah Woods, to graduation, but return two all-state runners and the rest of the varsity BY DYLAN HUGGINS advantage knowing when to squad. sign for things, knowing what sports@yankton.net Madison McClure, third, to order, understanding how and Lauren Eidsness, 13th competitions go,” she said. For Anne Kinsley, being at state, come back for what Kinsley mentioned that the head coach of the Yankshould be a solid girls squad. ton High School competitive over the summer she attend“The girls have been suced a UDA camp in Lincoln, dance team is a way for her cessful every year and have Nebraska with the team. The contended at state for a long to give back to not only to a school, but also to a program camp is something that can be overwhelming, but being that she was formally a part familiar with the camp is of. definitely a plus, she said. “I was a former of YHS “Just being supportive of dance from 2005-2009 and I graduated from Yankton high each other and I always tell BY JEREMY HOECK them that we have to bring school and I have a lot of connections to the team and each other up,” Kinsley said. jeremy.hoeck@yankton.net “I want them to make sure we to this high school,” Kinsley are working together, staying said. “Dance was a bit part EDITOR’S NOTE: This arpositive, have school spirit, of my life when I was in high ticle originally appeared in the school and so I wanted to be pride in what they do and Aug. 23 edition of the Press & organized.” involved in that again and Dakotan. Kinsley isn’t just a dance have the girls have a similar coach for the Yankton experience in that again.” Kami Cornemann is back. Gazelles. She is also a high Kinsley said that her Finally, she would tell you. school science teacher at experience in dance and The Yankton High School graduating from Yankton has Yankton High School. senior was relegated to the made the process of becombench last year during volFollow @dhugg23 on Twiting the new head coach quite leyball and basketball after ter. smooth. an ACL injury to her left knee. “It has been a huge She had to be patient. She’d have her chance as a senior. And now she’s back on the volleyball court. “I had to learn how to trust myself again,” Cornemann said after a preseason practice. “All summer I wore a knee brace until volleyball started. “Then I told myself, ‘Just roll with it and do it.’” The 5-foot-7 outside hitter is back on the court with the Gazelles and ready to help the team turn a corner in 2016. Last season, the Yankton volleyball team went 4-17 and lost in the play-in match to the district tournament. When asked to assess what she sees in this year’s team, Cornemann equated it to a puzzle. “I think those pieces are going to come together soon, and everything will click,” she said. To that comparison, Yankton head coach Tiffany Beste nodded her head. That’s just about right, she said. “The pieces of our puzzle Austin Frick this year are from a variety of different levels, too,” Beste said. “We have sophomores, Kinsley Excited To Take Over Dance Program YHS 8/26 9/2 9/10 9/16 9/22 9/29 10/8 10/11 10/13 10/22 Madison McClure time,” Youmans said. “With the girls that come back that have been successful we will fill in around them, but will rely on Lauren and Madison.” McClure, a junior, and Eidsness, a freshman, will lead a team that finished sixth at the state meet a year ago. While the girls’ team returns with experience to continue the program’s success, the boys’ graduate all varsity runners with the exception of junior, Brady Jaquith, who will lead a team of mostly freshman. Jaquith finished 56th in last year’s state meet. Cross Country O’Gorman Inv. Augustana Twilight Brandon Valley Inv. Norfolk Inv. Yankton Inv. (Fox Run) South Sioux City Inv. ESD (Mitchell) Yankton JV Inv. (FR) Huron 5-Star Meet State Meet (Huron) 4 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 9:30 a.m. 4 p.m. 4:15 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 11 a.m. 4:15 p.m. 4 p.m. 3 p.m. “With one returning runner, they will be a wild card and counting on the freshmen,” Youmans said, “We hope to have him back and improve and really work hard and expect a number of young guys to step up. “With the ninth graders we can’t give them unrealistic expectations because we really don’t know how good they will be, so it will be a week-to-week work in progress.” The week-to-week process will begin on Friday as both teams start out with the Sioux Falls O’Gorman Invite in Sioux Falls. Follow @michaelhammond_ on Twitter. Young YHS Volleyball Squad Set For Season YHS Boys’ Golf Team Boasts Young But Experienced Roster YANKTON BY BEN HEGGE sports@yankton.net EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared in the Aug. 15 edition of the Press & Dakotan. Despite having just one senior for the 2016 season, the Yankton Bucks golf team is looking to make some noise. “We have a young team, but we have some experienced golfers,” said head coach Brett Sime. “I’m excited to see what we can accomplish.” One of those experienced golfers will be AJ Fernandez, the lone senior. YANKTON 8/15 8/23 8/26 8/30 Boys’ Golf Br. Valley Tourn. 335 (12/13) at Brandon Valley * Huron Inv. 10 a.m. Rob Marshand Dual 2 p.m. 9/2 9/9 9/12 9/15 9/16 9/24 9/26 9/27 10/3-4 vs. Lennox (Hillcrest) 2 p.m. Yankton Inv. (Fox Run) 10 a.m. Brookings Inv. 10 a.m. at Washington/Lincoln 2 p.m. Mitchell Inv. 10:30 a.m. ESD (Brandon) 10 a.m. Aberdeen Inv. 10:30 a.m. at Harrisburg 1 p.m. State AA (Aberdeen) 10/9 a.m. (YHS vs. Mitchell, Fox Run) * - Games held after press deadline While the young Bucks will look to their only senior for leadership, they will need GOLF | PAGE 8 Volleyball vs. Brandon Valley at Watertown at S.F. Lincoln vs. Brookings vs. Harrisburg at Mitchell at Pierre vs. S.F. O’Gorman at Aberdeen Central vs. Huron at Harrisburg vs. Mitchell at Brookings at Brandon Valley vs. Watertown vs. Aberdeen Central vs. S.F. Roosevelt at S.F. Washington vs. Pierre at Huron District 2AA Play-in * * 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 5 p.m. 7 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 5 p.m. 7 p.m. 6 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 11/5 District 2AA 1st/3rd 11/10 Region 1AA 11/17-19 State AA (Brookings) Emily Oswald (5) and Josie Sayler (23) juniors and even some Jessica Reinhardt. But there freshmen out on the varsity could be other possibilities, court.” too, according to Beste. The Gazelles also have “I’m not taking anybody three seniors — middle hitter Josie Sayler, defensive specialist Darian Tramp and Cornemann (outside hitter) — in the mix. But even there, there’s not a lot of varsity experience. And that’s made preseason practices all the more important, Beste said. “We’re still working through rotations and servereceive and defenses to see what the best fit is going to be,” she said. “But I know in our first couple matches, we’ll continue to see that puzzle get put together.” A big part of that puzzle has quite a bit to do with the question of how to replace the production of outside hitter Becky Frick, who graduated as the program’s secondleading attacker (847 kills). Throughout the preseason practices, the Gazelles have cycled three players through No appointments necessary. the outside hitter position: Weekdays: 5 – 9pm junior Kate Budig, junior Jennica Delvaux and sophomore out as an option there,” she said. 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