Sports

A few Lady Cardinals volleyball players traveled to Florida for the AAU Junior National Volleyball Tournament and didn’t come home empty handed. Seniors Ally Tribe and Claire Klausmeyer earned third place in the 18u division out of 60 teams.

After the recent departure of former Sealy High School head football coach and athletic director Shane Mobley, newly hired Clint Finley will take on the same role to start the ’23-’24 school year. Finley has plenty of quality football experience as he played college football at University of Nebraska and also had stints with the Kansas City Chiefs and Dallas Cowboys, along with the Berlin Thunder of NFL Europe in the late 90’s and early 2000’s.

COLUMBUS — The Columbus High School volleyball team went to their second state tournament in a row last year under head coach Kayley Johns and the Lady Cardinals still have the personnel for a potential thirdstraight trip to the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland.