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Schlagle linebacker travels long road to success

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Manowa Ngenzirabona (#21, left) and Jaylin Richardson will start their quest to lead Schalgle to a KC-AL championship tonight against Atchison. (Photos by Brian Turrel, Wyandotte Daily News)

Kansas City Schlagle’s Manowa Ngenzirabona is the reigning Kansas City-Atchison League defensive MVP and has received interest from multiple NCAA Division II schools.

Ngenzirabona’s journey includes stops in Congo, Tanzania, Wisconsin, Iowa and Kansas. It also features a drunk driver, six siblings, Great Wolf Lodge at Legends Mall in Kansas City – and lots and lots of walking.

Deerfield's Rodriguez embraces dual-sport role for Broncbusters

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Deerfield's Sheridan Rodriguez excels at volleyball and track for Garden City Community College. (Photos courtesy Garden City Community College Athletics)

If you blink, you may in fact miss Sheridan Rodriguez. The multi-sport athlete, who plays both volleyball and track, spends time between practice, class and sleep, working at Ross in Garden City.

Rodriguez’s obsession with perfection explains a lot of things, like her 4.0 GPA. Away from the classroom, she finished second in the high jump during the 2019 NJCAA Outdoor Nationals and was the Region VI champion.

Football Friday #1: What we're watching for!

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Parker Gooden spent the last two seasons as the Beavers starting quarterback, but coach Jim Turner anticipated moving him to running back this offseason. (Photo by Everett Royer, KSportsImages.com)

I love football, and the first Friday of high school football season in Kansas is a special one. Every team starts the year the same, 0-0, and the entire season lies ahead with every player dreaming of league championships and deep playoff runs.

Yes, I'm watching big games like Blue Valley North/Bishop Miege, Shawnee Mission East/Gardner-Edgerton and Bishop Carroll/Wichita Northwest to name a few, but here are a few other storylines I'm intrigued by for September 6, 2019.

Alderson isn't satisfied

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Sophomore distance runner Jentrie Alderson has big goals for her first year with the Southeast of Saline cross country team. (Photo by Huey Counts)

Jentrie Alderson isn’t satisfied and she wants to do better.

Nothing new there.

But the fact she’ll try to do better for Southeast of Saline is new and probably elicited some concern from opposing runners in the North Central Activities Association, as well those of Class 3A cross country teams as a whole.

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