Glen Frey sang ‘The Heat is On’; Buster Poindexter went with It’s Getting HOT-HOT-HOT. It looks like you have a scorcher in your forecast today. Stay cool and be careful if you’re out in it.

…Time to Turn Before You Burn!

2013 Outstanding Senior Athlete

Athletes are chosen by their contributions through the entire sports year; Fall, Winter and Spring. Each winner receives a certificate and a 100 dollar educational stipend.
We have great student-athletes making great things happen in the KCLY Community!!

Blue Valley-Tiffany Shaheen

Clay Center-Alyx Bloom

Clifton/Clyde-Alex Deaver

Frankfort-Josie Hale

Hanover-Mark Zarybnicky

Linn-Zak Voelker

Riley County-Bre Busch

Southern Cloud-Shannon Wallace

Valley Heights-Tanner Trimble

Wakefield-Briana Fowler

Washington County-Megan Stegman

This Week’s Blue Heron Athlete of the Week is shared between a Blue Valley Lady Ram and a Wakefield Lady Bomber. This week’s honor goes to Brittany Pfaff and Bri Fowler. Both have had big weeks. Fowler on Tuesday night against Flint Hills Christian scored 18 points in her final ballgame on the home court; the night prior she scored half of her team’s points against Centre.
Pfaff has a great week as well; last week she averaged 16 points; 5 assists; 4 rebounds and 3 steals per game in wins over Clifton/Clyde and Frankfort. She backed that up with a 13 point performance in a loss to Hanover Tuesday. Add to this a 4th place finish in the Clay Center Power Lifting Meet in her weight class; a heck of a week.
This week’s Blue Heron Athlete of the Week goes to both Wakefield’s Bri Fowler and Blue Valley’s Brittany Pfaff!

The KCLY Blue Heron Athlete of the Week is Frankfort Lady Wildcat Josie Hale! Hale has been instrumental all season in the Wildcats success; a (5-2) TVL mark and a (10-4) record on the year. Her latest big night saw Josie go for 20 points in a 37-30 win over Onaga. That’s 20 of the 37 points Frankfort scored on the night. Hale hit 7 buckets and went 6-6 at the free throw stripe. This week’s Blue Heron Athlete of the Week is 5’10” Senior Josie Hale of the Frankfort Lady Wildcats!

The KCLY Blue Heron Athlete of the Week is Washington County Lady Tiger Megan Stegman. The 5’7 Senior Lady Tiger helped lead her team to the Twin Valley League Championship by throwing in 47 points in the 3 games combined…capping it off with a 27 point performance in the Championship game against B&B. Stegman and the talented Lady Tigers are currently ranked #1 in the 2A State Rankings and undefeated on the season.
The Blue Heron Athlete of the Week is Washington Co Lady Tiger Megan Stegman.

Blue Heron Athlete of the Week

This week’s Blue Heron Athlete of the Week is Frankfort Wildcat Callahan Brown…who went on a shooting streak the last two games. In the two games combined against Washington County and Rossville Brown has put up 49 points. He lit it up for 28 against the Tigers in a 45-41 loss; then came back to score 21 with a win over the Bulldgogs 64-50. While knocking down only one three-pointer; Brown has created and scored from everywhere on the court. 49 points in two games; Callahan Brown is the Blue Heron Athlete of the Week!

This week’s Blue Heron Athlete of the Week is Hanover Wildcat Matt Zarybynicky. This past Saturday in the 8 Man Division II playoffs Zarybnicky ran for 154 yards on just 13 carries…and found the end zone 4 times! The 80-30 blowout win over Colony-Crest sets up a TVL rematch with B&B in Baileyville this Friday night at 7 p.m. Phil Kasper has the call here on KCLY and at kclyradio.com.
The Blue Heron Athlete of the Week is Hanover’s Matt Zarybnicky; a great playoff performance!

The Blue Heron Athlete of the Week Axtell Eagle Cross Country Runner Audrey Schmitz; Audrey this past weekend took her 3rd state cross country championship of her high school career! She ran a time of 15:49.10 Saturday at the Wamego Country Club. After taking 5th at state her freshman year; Schmitz has now won three straight individual State Championships; and this year led her team to a runner up 2nd place finish.
A remarkable year; and career at Axtell for Audrey Schmitz; the Blue Heron Athlete of the Week!

The Blue Heron Athlete of the Week is the Washington County Lady Tiger Volleyball team…they are headed to 2A State. After a win over #1 ranked Burlingame in last week’s Sub State; Washington County now heads to Emporia; where last year they finished in a 2nd place runner up. Now they head back to State led by:
Erin Alexander–268 kills; Samantha Le’Cuyer–220 kills; Megan Stegman–217 kills and Kylie Penning–758 assists.
Coach Juenamen’s team will come in as the #1 seed overall and take the court for first serve at 10 a.m. tomorrow morning here on KCLY.
This week’s Blue Heron Athlete of the Week…The Washington County Lady Tiger Volleyball Team!

The Blue Heron Athlete of the Week is Wakefield Bomber Brandon Taylor. The Bomber junior put up big number again last Friday night in a 46-20 win over Pike Valley. Taylor went for 102 yards on 20 carries and went into the end zone 2 times on the ground. Add to that some efficient work through the air as well. Taylor would hall in 2 passes for 68 yards; one of those 60 yards for a TD! Taylor; along with a few other Bombers through the season has competed for both coach Chris Freeman on the football field; but also for coach Ladd Braden on the cross country course…and he has excelled in both. He will play Friday night at home against Rock Hills; then head to Leonardville Saturday morning for Regional Cross Country.
The Blue Heron Athlete of the Week is Wakefield Bomber Brandon Taylor.