2019 KHSAA DEAD PERIOD
* No practices.
* No meetings.
* No 7 on 7s.
* No lifting.
* No tryouts.
* No fund raising.
* No open gyms/fields.
For 2 weeks, let the kids be ... kids.
KHSAA DEAD PERIOD
Reminder this is coming up starting next week.
No practices.
No meetings.
No 7 on 7s.
No lifting.
No tryouts.
No fund raising.
No open gyms/fields.
For 2 weeks, let the kids be ... kids.
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL
Here are the 21-22 top 10 players and teams in each of the 16 regions for boys and girls according to The Cats' Pause
(all 4 graphics by Nate Bryan
@NateInSports
)
KHSAA DEAD PERIOD
Reminder this is coming up:
No practices.
No meetings.
No 7 on 7s.
No lifting.
No tryouts.
No fund raising.
No open gyms/fields.
For 2 weeks, let the kids be ... kids.
BULLITT EAST
@AthleticsBehs
roasting JCPS more than a Comedy Central marathon.
And I'm all for it.
Grab the popcorn 🍿 because they are landing some zingers
What happens when a principal (whose son also is on the roster) in Kentucky's largest district steps in and changes the leadership of a successful program without the AD doing so?
Well ...
(A thread)
1 of 9
Intentionally trying to sabotage a high school coach’s career & livelihood because YOU believe he should be starting your son is absolutely freakin’ pathetic… Worst part is circumstances like that happen more often than you might think.
KHSAA DEAD PERIOD
Reminder this is coming up:
No practices.
No meetings.
No 7 on 7s.
No lifting.
No tryouts.
No fund raising.
No open gyms/fields.
For 2 weeks, let the kids be ... kids.
HS BASKETBALL 🏀
From the Harlan boys allowing a Leslie County player with Down Syndrome TO drain a 3 to the Nelson girls allowing an injured LaRue player to score TO the Bullitt East girls allowing a Sacred Heart player to score, sportsmanship and class are alive in
@KHSAA
KHSAA DEAD PERIOD
Reminder this is coming up starting this week.
No practices.
No meetings.
No 7 on 7s.
No lifting.
No tryouts.
No fund raising.
No open gyms/fields.
For 2 weeks, let the kids be ... kids.
⚾️ HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL ⚾️
Here is the complete KHSBCA 2024 Preseason All-State Watch List
(In order to be nominated, schools had to be KHSBCA members)
Pics are broken up to Regions 1-4, 5-8, 9-12 and 13-16
HS BOYS 🏀
On December 3rd, 2022, Floyd Central beat Leslie County 82-46.
That might seem forgettable
Seem insignificant
Trust me, it wasn't
Stay with me here
A thread
1 of 5
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL 🏈
I don't care which team was dirty first
I don't care what led up to it
If you get ejected as an experienced senior, are on the sideline with your helmet off, you do NOT turbo speed back onto the field to hatchet someone and then get a hug for it.
Nope.
HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL
As released Thursday night, here is the complete
@khsbcaorg
Preseason All State Watch List, in order by region and then team (graphic by
@NateInSports
, names typed as submitted by region rep, thus not responsible):
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL
Teams post on the listserve all the time when they are looking for non district games.
No shock there.
And THEN there is Berea's approach to scheduling (because the KHSAA believes in 1A alignments that Berea apparently borders all other 119 counties):
HIGH SCHOOL BOYS BASKETBALL 🏀
Nothing to see here, only former Louisville and Bardstown star
@coachboobrewer
James "Boo" Brewer pulling a man from a burning truck.
Guess I'll send Boo some SourPatch
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL 🏈
*Male lost its opening 2 games against KHSAA foes
*Bullitt East lost to a 4A team that didn't make it past the 2nd rnd
*Bryan Station was 0-3
*Owensboro dropped its opener
*Blazer & Louisville Central were both 1-3
It's OK to challenge yourself and lose.
HS GIRLS HOOPS
So a girl rebounds on the defensive paint and then scores on the opposite end.
Not much to see here, right?
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What if I told you Metcalfe County's McKinley Crain, a 15-year-old sophomore post, was a teen who has battled cancer (Ewing's Sarcoma)?
@MikeCleffWBKO
@wbko13sports
Cancer survivor McKinley Crain (32 in white for Metcalfe Co) gets in basketball game and scores/rebounds after two year battle against Ewing Sarcoma. Standing ovation from gym. Thank you, 16th District!
🏀 HIGH SCHOOL BOYS BASKETBALL 🏀
Here are the preseason top-10 BOYS PLAYERS in each of the 16 KHSAA regions for the 23-24 season according to The Cats' Pause
NOT MY INDIVIDUAL RANKINGS
( Composite, consolidated graphic by
@NateInSports
)
BASEBALL ⚾️
2023 University of Kentucky signee (incoming freshman) CONNOR FUGATE was booked early this morning in the Scott County Detention Center.
The Prestonsburg native (Paintsville HS grad) has been charged with multiple offenses:
🏀 HIGH SCHOOL BOYS BASKETBALL 🏀
Still getting details, but being informed last night's Eastern vs. Seneca game -- a 48-42 victory for Eastern -- ended early with a bench clearing
Dunno how many suspensions/elections there were as KHSAA stopped publicly listing those years ago
7 years ago today, I was fired as a sports writer for the Elizabethtown paper where I grinded for 15 years
No way at that time did I think 13,000+ people would be following me 7 years later ... I didn't even have my own account
So I'm very appreciative.
Also inquisitive: Why?
I'm glad my parents realized I wasn't an award-winning athlete.
They never bothered anyone about playing time.
They never complained about me not making a team/list
They were faithful members of the booster club
Parents who go ballistic about an award/team need to be smacked
HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL 🥎
Too many times with HS sports, we emphasize the physical part much more than the mental part.
Perhaps it's time to break that mold.
Here is one recent example:
In the 10 years I've been with my wife, Atticus was always there.
He comforted me when I was unemployed
He laid on me when I had COVID.
He slept between the wife and I as the "middle puppy" in our queen bed
These smiles were from today
Atti crossed the rainbow 🌈 bridge today
Remember that time the Manual principal fired his baseball coach?
Then refused to comment about said firing?
And then said fired coach went Eastern?
And then Manual lost to said fired coach?
🏀 HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS BASKETBALL 🏀
Here are the preseason top-10 GIRLS PLAYERS in each of the 16 KHSAA regions for the 23-24 season according to The Cats' Pause
NOT MY INDIVIDUAL RANKINGS
( Composite, consolidated graphic by
@NateInSports
)
RE: High school officiating
* It pays crap
* You get home late
* It's stressful and anyone with a voice in a gym or a social media account thinks they can mouth off, sometimes anonymously
What's the incentive, exactly?
@KHSAA
whoever is in charge of the officials needs to do a lot better job of screening their job applications!
The crew for the Atherton vs. Moore game tonight was complete garbage!
Blocks were called charges, and the charges was blocks, flops was charges!
Cost AHS the dub!
HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL ⚾️
As released Friday, here is the complete region-by-breakdown of the 2021
@khsbca
Preseason All-State Watch List
(Regions 1-8 first pic, Regions 9-16 in 2nd pic)
"HIGH SCHOOL" coaches publicly tweeting/retweeting "flipping" 8th graders from opposing programs to their own is a road we shouldn't be on and a road I fear we are not getting off any time soon.
Hashtag sad face
HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS BASKETBALL
Here are the preseason regional top-10 team rankings according to the 2020-21
@CatsPause
.com Kentucky Basketball Yearbook
(Graphic by Nate Bryan |
@NateInSports
)
HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
The Kentucky school winners for 2022 for the Heisman High School Scholarship have been announced
( Graphic by
@NateInSports
)
Source:
HIGH SCHOOL BOYS BASKETBALL 🏀
NO private schools advance to Rupp for Sweet 16 (unless O'Cath pulls off a UK/LSU comeback).
Not great ammunition for the splitters.
Hazard High School.
2020 Homecoming
Like a Virgin
And Mayor/Principal Happy is front row
But please, feel free to tell me I'm taking this outta context
So about this "nothing like this has happened at Hazard before"
What if I told you a 2020 video (Skit Day from Hazard Homecoming Week) will surface showing a boy in drag dancing to "Like a Virgin" and touching Principal/Mayor Happy in a definite forbidden student/teacher way?
HIGH SCHOOL BOYS SOCCER
Cute story from St. Xavier
@StXTigerSoccer
/
@stxtigers
coach Andy Schulten, who says the girl in the story "is my new favorite person in the whole wide world."
HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS BASKETBALL
I know this is NOT 100% accurate, but putting together a statewide list of current Kentucky HS players (and MS who play HS varsity) with college offers
Retweet or reply or DM me (I accept all DMs, even from non followers) for changes and omissions
HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL
Here are the 81 UNDERclassmen from Kentucky who have been named to the 2021 Rawlings/Perfect Game Preseason Central Region All-Region Team
Graphic by
@NateInSports
SOURCE:
DUI is not an accident
DUI is not a mistake
DUI is not an accident
DUI is not a mistake
DUI is not an accident
DUI is not a mistake
DUI is not an accident
DUI is not a mistake
DUI is not an accident
DUI is not a mistake
DUI is not an accident
DUI is not a mistake
PREP HOOPS
@BestKYSections
released its top student section awards for 2018-19:
1 South Laurel
2 Ohio County
3 Lexington Christian
4 Mercer County
5 Muhlenberg County
HM Paul Dunbar
HM Bullitt East
HM West Jessamine
HM Henry Clay
HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS BASKETBALL
Here are the preseason regional top-10 PLAYER rankings according to the 2020-21
@CatsPause
.com Kentucky Basketball Yearbook
(Graphic by Nate Bryan |
@NateInSports
)
HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS BASKETBALL
Here are the preseason regional top-10 team rankings according to the 2020-21
@CatsPause
.com Kentucky Basketball Yearbook
(Graphic by Nate Bryan |
@NateInSports
)
HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL
2019 All-State Team is out
Class Players of the Year:
3A: Miller, Male
2A: Chadwell, Boyle
1A: Gailor, Lou Holy Cross
Class Coaching Staffs of the Year
3A: Male
2A: Warren East
1A: Lou Holy Cross
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL 🏈
The KFCA just released its 2022 Players and Coaches of the Year for each of the 48 KHSAA districts:
(Class 1A, 2A and 3A are in one pic, Class 4A, 5A and 6A are in the other)
NCAA BASEBALL
This is WVU's strength coach tweeting this.
WVU is at UK dorms.
So for UK (and some of you all) describing it as apartment-style living and nicer than most hotels, a question:
"What kind of crapass hotels are you repeatedly staying in and why?"
HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL
Even if no one asked for it, here is this year's KHSAA State Baseball Tournament in a March Madness style 64-team (all region semifinalists) format:
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL
The Team Kentucky rosters have been released for the 2018 Ohio-Kentucky SR All-Star Game on Saturday, April 7th at Thomas More College.
Doors open at 4:30.
Girls Game at 5:30.
Boys following (7:15 ish)
Friday April 6th Slam Fest starts at 7 and is FREE
HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
The KHSAA portal has allowed a kid to play for 3 different 19th District (5th Region) boys varsity basketball teams in the last 11 months spanning last season.
You want free market?
This is the shit you get.
HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS BASKETBALL
Here are the latest class-by-class recruiting rankings by
@HPBlueChip
Rick Bolus' High Potential® Recruiting Service
(Graphic by
@NateInSports
)
SOURCE:
*BASED ON COLLEGE POTENTIAL*
Reminder that the KHSAA dead period for high school sports is the very first second of June 25th through the very last second of July 9th.
It's like this every year.
This is not a change.
🏀 HIGH SCHOOL BOYS BASKETBALL 🏀
Here are the preseason top-10 BOYS teams in each of the 16 KHSAA regions for the 23-24 season according to The Cats' Pause
NOT MY INDIVIDUAL RANKINGS
( Composite, consolidated graphic by
@NateInSports
)
Remember when folks said a kid who played KHSAA ball at a podunk county school could never hack it on the power-five level and needed to go to prep school if we wanted to amount to anything?
Yeah, good times
HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS BASKETBALL 🏀
A tradition like no other, here are the
@CatsPause
region by region preseason top 10 rankings for 2019-20
(voted on by region coaches in most cases;
graphic by me)
HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL
Here are your 2019 KSCA Region Player and Coach of the Year winners.
They will be honored Saturday, June 15th, during the East/West All-Star Series at the University of the Cumberlands:
HIGH SCHOOL BOYS BASKETBALL 🏀
A tradition like no other, here are the
@CatsPause
region by region preseason top 10 rankings for 2019-20
(voted on by region coaches in most cases;
graphic by me)
HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
I cannot stress this enough, if you plan on transferring for next school season, DO SO BY THURSDAY, JUNE 30TH.
Because if you do it July 1 and after (UNLESS YOU PHYSICALLY MOVE), you will be ineligible. In all sports. At all levels (yes, even fresh and JV)
PREP FOOTBALL
The annual Louisville vs Bluegrass senior all star game is Sun Dec 9th at
@EHSpanthers19
Bluegrass head coach is CLAY CLEVENGER of
@ADS_Athletics
Bluegrass asst coach is EDDIE EVISTON of
@CovCathColonels
Here is the 40 man roster for Team BLUEGRASS:
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL 🏈
The Cats' Pause 2022 Kentucky Football Yearbook:
High School Preview (Predicted District-By-District Standings For All 48 Districts)
Graphic by Nate Bryan, aka
@NateInSports
on Twitter
NOTE:
NOT my rankings.
I had nothing to do with them.
Zero input.
HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS BASKETBALL 🏀
Classy (seriously) move by 5th Region rival Nelson County to allow a LaRue County player to score the final 2 points of her ACL-shortened career:
Every single boys team at Rupp this week is public.
Multiple teams at Rupp will have transfers and/or a holdback and/or kids not living in their district and/or 19 year olds (or will be at time of graduation)
Let's not act like we have a bunch of kids who grew up together
HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
2 months from Today (April 25th) is KHSAA Dead Period:
No practices.
No meetings.
No 7 on 7s.
No lifting.
No tryouts.
No fund raising.
No open gyms/fields.
For 2 weeks, let the kids be ... kids.
St. Henry (7-2) takes down previously unbeaten LexCath (12-1).
LexCath was No. 1 overall in Friday morning's KHSAA RPI.
St. Henry was 69th.
That's why we lace em up no matter what the numbers say, kids.
Knights(17-7) win on the road in Double OT against North Hardin tonight 85-81.
J. Epps(31pts,31reb,5ast)
J. Adams(22pts,8reb)
M. Sullivan(13pts,6reb)
T. Epps(12pts,8ast)
D. White(5pts)
K. Spalding(2pts)
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HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL
Ranked by NCAA QB Rating (far right side), here is a look at how some of the top Kentucky high school quarterbacks are performing this season (graphic by
@NateInSports
):
HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL
In ABC order by high school, here are your Perfect Game 2021 Central Region All-Region *SENIOR* honorees from KHSAA programs (graphic by
@NateInSports
)
Source:
⚽️ HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS SOCCER ⚽️
Todd County Central had only 10 players to start the game.
Barren County turns down the advantage, opts to go even 10 v 10 instead.
Sportsmanship wins over gamesmanship
Kudos to Barren.
GIRLS PREP HOOPS
Found on page 249, here are your 2018-19 Preseason Region Players of the Year according to the The Cats' Pause/Kentucky Basketball Yearbook
(Magazine's Retail price is $15.99. Barnes & Noble had it $10.99.
Kroger, Five Star convenience stores have them too)