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Why Bryce Thompson Decided to Become a Jayhawk

Deion Imade talks with YurView's Rod Thompson and his son Bryce. Join them as they talk about cars, hoops, coronavirus and Bryce's decision to play basketball at the University of Kansas. Watch the entire interview with Rod and Bryce Thompson on YurView.com.

Future Bride and Groom Land Head Coaching Jobs at Same School

Most young high school coaches are forced to bide their time as an assistant for a few years until the right opportunity comes along to run their own program. Chase Littlejohn and Rylie Torrey skipped that prerequisite and have fast tracked their way to the head of the class. The soon-to-be husband and wife were recently hired as the boys and...

Westmoore Coach Lorenzo Williams Reminisces His Football Career After High School

Deion Imade talks to Westmoore High School Football Coach Lorenzo Williams about shoes, music, vacations, entrepreneurship, coaching and how Coach Williams and the Westmoore Jaguars are dealing with the pandemic in preparation for the fall. Watch the entire interview with Coach Lorenzo Williams on YurView.com.

Ada Hoops Star Graduates Early To Start College Career

Ada junior Jaxson Robinson It's become commonplace for aspiring college basketball players to hold off going to college for a year and enroll at a prep school. There they get another year of hoops experience without using any college eligibility. They also get an additional 12 months of personal growth and recruiting attention. Ada junior Jaxson Robinson recently did the...

Union Redskins Step Up in Time of Need

When the call went out recently for volunteers to help with Union High School's wildly successful drive-thru food program, teachers, staffers and administrators sprang into action. That included many associated with Union Athletics. Shortly after schools were shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Union, the state's second-largest school district, began handing out more than 32,000 free meals a week. As...

Aaliyah Moore Named Oklahoma’s Gatorade Player Of The Year

One of the few bright spots in an otherwise bleak high school spring sports season occurred recently with the announcement of the annual Boys and Girls Gatorade Basketball Players of the Year. Aaliyah Moore was named the girl's recipient after a stellar junior season. Despite the shortened season, the 6-3 forward averaged 21.9 points and 10.9 rebounds a game while...

Small School Star Makes Big-Time Plays for Canadian High School

Despite this year's shortened high school basketball season, Oklahoma high schools produced some impressive boys basketball players. Future Division I players like Putnam City West's Rondel Walker and Booker T. Washington's Trey Phipps and Bryce Thompson shared a lot of the headlines. It was another Thompson, however, who finished the season with the most career points: Carson Thompson from Class...

Doucet Caps Off Storybook Season, Career

Konner Doucet, Comanche Indians

Konner Doucet set out to prove he was one of Oklahoma's most dominant high school wrestlers this season, and the Comanche senior made a strong argument in his favor after recently breezing through the Class 3A State Wrestling Championships in Oklahoma City. Doucet, who finished his final prep season with a stellar 47-0 record, pinned each of his three opponents...

Bixby Spartan Swimmer Goes For Gold

Bixby's Kendall Stieben is living proof that when one door closes, another one opens. When Stieben began her high school athletic career, she quickly became one of the area's top cross country and track and field runners. She finished 11th at the 6A cross country championships her freshman year and backed it up with Top 12 finishes in the 800,...