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Chapman hires Gruver to lead girls basketball team

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Drew Gruver will coach the Chapman girls basketball team next season. (Photo courtesy USD 473 Athletics)

Chapman High School went 35 miles north to find its next girls head basketball coach. 

Drew Gruver will be the next head coach of the Chapman girls basketball team, according to athletic director Clint Merritt. Gruver has been the head coach of the Clay Center boys since 2016, but has experience coaching at the high school level in Kansas for over a decade. 

After years of coaching experience, Gruver knows what to look for in his players and in a team. 

KEMFA State Powerlifting Championship results

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The 165 pound class at the KEMFA State Powerlifting Championships featured three outstanding lifters. Pictured (L-R): Garret Dalinghaus, Frankfort junior, third overall; Garrett Burns, Central Christian junior, first overall and multiple record-breaker; and Conner Born, Hill City senior, second overall. (Photo courtesy Jerry Burns)

The Kansas Eight-Man Football Association's annual State Powerlifting Championship is one of the largest competitions of its kind in the state.

Almost 400 total lifters - 279 boys, 112 girls - participated in the event which includes athletes only from schools that play 8-Man football and are dues paying members of the Kansas Eight-Man Football Association. Athletes from 6-Man schools are also allowed to participate if they pay dues to the KEMFA.

Dewey, Casey lead solid Plainville track squad

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Plainville juniors Aubree Dewey and Jared Casey headline the Plainville track and field team and the duo will go down as two of the top athletes in Plainville High School history. (Photos by Everett Royer, KSportsImages.com)

Aubree Dewey’s energy and enthusiasm carries over into every sport she plays.

Dewey is perhaps most well known for her success with the Plainville basketball team, but in the fall she succeeds in cross country and now in the spring she is one of the state's top track athletes. According to those close to her, it is Dewey’s dedication that stands out the most.

Plainville track and field head coach Norma Finnesy describes Dewey as reliable with a drive to compete. 

BV North football player gives back to community

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Blue Valley North defensive back Stephon Camp has earned a reputation as a positive influence in his community know for his commitment to community service. (Photos by Adam Murray Photography)

Last summer, Blue Valley North senior Stephon Camp was driving through his old Kansas City neighborhood when the sober reality of his surroundings sunk in. The poverty, the violence, the destruction was apparent. It led Camp to a realization, and that realization led to action. 

“You could literally see how hard poverty had struck my city,” Camp, who now lives in Overland Park, said. “I had to stop asking myself ‘why isn’t anyone helping’ and had to be the one to step up.”  

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