Peru State head volleyball coach Madison Kindle recently announced the volleyball program will be hosting a skills camp on Wednesday, July 20. The camp will be for high school players looking to continue their careers at the collegiate level. The camp runs from 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. and lunch will be provided.
On Tuesday, May 10, the Peru State football team announced the hiring of H.T. Kinney to be its new offensive coordinator. Kinney was most recently an offensive analyst for FCS program Nicholls State during the 2020 and 2021 seasons.
The Peru State athletic department has announced the hiring of Dwyane R. Da Moude as their new head bowling coach for the upcoming fall 2022 season. Da Moude is currently at Sun Valley Lanes and Games Operator from 2011-to present.
Peru State men’s basketball head coach Bob Ludwig recently announced that the men’s basketball program will be hosting an Offensive Skills Camp Monday, August 1, through Wednesday, August 3. The camp will be for boys in the third grade through high school seniors. The camp will be from 9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., each day and walk in registration will be that Monday at 8:30 a.m.
Kirt Manion, CherryRoad Media Drew Erhart, Kyla Davis and Kinsley Havranek represented the Palmyra track and field programs at the Class C NSAA State Track and Field Championships last week. Drew Erhart competed in the boys’ 100- and 200-meter races.
As the Syracuse-Dunbar-Avoca girls’ track team has learned over the years, tradition doesn’t graduate. With state championship teams in 2018 and 2019, this year’s team continues to make its mark. After a contested B-1 district championship on Tuesday, May 10th at Platteview High School head coach Rick Nordhues comments, “It was so much fun watching these kids step up and compete! We were nervous about some injuries keeping us from winning the district title but the girls really came together. It is a testament to the kids. We were without 2 probable placings in the 300 hurdles and our 4 x 800 relay and the girls still made it happen! I am so proud of them!”
After excelling through the season, members of the Syracuse-Dunbar-Avoca junior high boys’ and girls’ teams competed at the State Championship Meet in Gothenburg on Saturday, May 14. In the girls’ division, Ashlynn Vestal placed 5th in the 100m hurdles, 16.99. The 4x400 team of Vestal, Kathleen Donovan, Bridget Donovan, and Haleigh Werner placed 3rd with a new school record time of 4:21.34.
The University of South Dakota women’s team captured the Summit League crown in Tulsa, Oklahoma at ONEOK Sports Complex last Saturday with a score of 243 over runner-up North Dakota State with 225. Meredith Clark (2019 Syracuse Grad), placed in all three of her events: shot put, 2nd, 48’1 ¾”; discus, 3rd, 158’6”; and hammer throw, 4th, 179’1”. Lauren Meyer (2020 Syracuse Grad), placed in the triple jump, 7th, 38’11 ½”. The conference track meet puts an end to the track season for both athletes.
The Syracuse-Dunbar-Avoca boys’ golf team competed at Hidden Valley Golf Course in Lincoln on Monday for the Class C-1 Districts. Scoring for the Rockets were freshman Cade Stephenson, 94, 21st place; junior Logan Zoller, 95; junior Robert Shanks, 95; junior Gabe Dilley, 115; and junior Cody Damme, 115. The team scored 388 for 7th place. Lincoln Lutheran won the event with a score of 340. The top ten players and top three teams will play at the state tournament at Elks Country Club in Columbus on May 24 and 25.
A comprehensive review of research published between 1990 and 2020 studying the link between physical activity and mental health outcomes determined that nearly 90 percent of all peer-reviewed, published research reported a positive, statistically significant relationship between exercise/physical activity and mental health. Conducted by the John W. Brick Mental Health Foundation, the review found that 1,029 of the 1,158 experimental studies examined reported significant positive relationships between physical activity and mental health outcomes. General physical activity, a broad descriptor referring to the amount of daily or weekly physical activity people engage in irrespective of type, had the greatest number of positive studies of any type of physical activity, followed by cardiovascular and aerobic activity and yoga. Authors of the review concluded that their findings illustrate that exercise and movement can now be considered mainstream elements of mental health care.