Even though the school year has ended, Lowry High School will still be busy this summer with a number of teams holding conditioning, open gyms and camps.
Northern California has become a popular landing spot for Lowry High School graduates. Just this year, girls basketball players Jasmine Marchand and Alyssa Jones have announced that they are attending Feather River College and Lassen Community College, respectively, to play basketball.
Each year Sonoma Heights fourth grade teacher Laurie Pickett holds a raffle and two lucky students get a chance to sit in the front seat of her 1981 Camero. She draws the name of one boy and one girl to sit in her hot rod. Pickett is a drag racer in addition to being a teacher. She started racing about 10 years ago and has shared her experiences in drag racing with her students ever since. She has brought racing into the classroom by using math and science to give her students a better understanding of what she does for fun. Pickett runs her Camaro in the Super Pro class in Fallon. Her average speed in the quarter mile is 148 mph.
A handful of athletes from Lowry High School traveled to Reno on Friday, May 29, to compete in the Northern Nevada Weightlifting Championships at Reno High School.
I’ve been testing and writing about airguns a lot the last few years. The biggest reason being they’re a blast to shoot. But there’s some other reasons as well.
Alyssa Jones became the second Lowry High School girls basketball player to take the next step to college, as the recent graduate signed a letter of intent to play for Lassen College in Susanville, Calif.
After months of dialogue and bantering back and forth, it appears realignment for Nevada high schools, beginning with the 2016-17 season, is closer to reality.
Members of the Humboldt County Special Olympics team, adults and children, will head to Reno for the Nevada State Summer Games on June 5-6 on the campus of the University of Nevada. Four hundred athletes and their volunteer coaches will come together at the University of Nevada, to experience the thrill of competing against other athletes from all over Nevada. After weeks of training and participating at a qualifying competition, athletes will compete in aquatics or track and field in state-of-the-art collegiate athletic facilities on the UNR campus. Summer Games is the culminating championship for aquatics and track & field and is one of the largest Special Olympics sporting competitions in Nevada. The minimum age of the competitors is eight years of age and there is no age limit cap. Athletes have varying ability levels and are put in divisions to compete against athletes of the approximate same ability level. Over 500 volunteers were on hand to fill a variety of volunteer positions over the course of the weekend.
The Greater Nevada Badgers ‘B’ team has been no stranger to one-run games in the early part of the summer season.
Usually during the summer, the Greater Nevada Badgers spend all its time away from home with road trips to Reno, Idaho and Oregon.
Lowry High School senior Beau Billingsley has been selected as Nevada’s choice for the Dave Schultz High School Excellence Award winner, which is given to the top high school wrestler in each state.
Humboldt County’s Cade Bell and Julianne Montero have qualified for the National Junior High School Rodeo Finals, to be held June 21-27 in Des Moines, Iowa.
A second Lowry High School cheerleader will be taking the next step to a Division I university, as Ryan Rasmussen will be a part of the cheerleading team for Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, Ariz.
Four members of the Lowry High School baseball team were named to the Division I-A North honorable mention team. The all-league teams are selected by the league’s coaches.
The Lowry High School softball team was well recognized for its regular-season play in the Division I-A North this season.