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  • Serving up aces

    No one can better attest to the truthfulness of those words than Crystal River senior Kristin Tringali. As the county’s No. 1 prep female tennis player, she’s always well aware of the score. But as a 17-year-old with Type 1 diabetes, she understands that the love of her family has been extremely instrumental in helping her meet the daily challenges that diabetes presents.

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  • The best and the brightest

    When you get to this batch of eight young men and women, you are already talking about the best of the best in exemplifying both sides of the term “student-athlete.”

    Every year the Chronicle asks for nominations from the four main high schools in the county. And once again Citrus, Crystal River, Lecanto and Seven Rivers Christian have delivered a very impressive crop of young men and women of which the county can be proud.

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  • Nerves of steel

    Watching Paige Cooke compete in the high jump is not for the faint of heart — just ask her father Stan Cooke. Watching his daughter compete at the regional track meet in Harmony this past spring, he very nearly dug a hole to China as he watched his daughter push the limit, using all three of her jumps on three separate height attempts. But in each case, she cleared the height and moved on to the state meet.

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  • Just do it

    The Nike “Swoosh” tattoo on her right bicep is a permanent branding that marks just how much running is in her blood. But it’s her blazing speed on the track that has made Martina Tafoya a champion.

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  • Eye of the storm

    The players on the other team were left in awe. Taking pictures from the bench as they witnessed the other team’s greatness. They asked for autographs as they shook hands after the game.

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  • Packing a punch

    Regardless of whether it was skying above the competition to rain down a kill or hitting the deck to save a point from hitting the court, Crystal River senior outside hitter Kristen Norfleet was extremely well-rounded.

    Norfleet led the county with 398 kills in 29 matches but was far from a one-dimensional attacker. The athlete also registered 394 digs to lead the Pirates in that category.

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  • Leopards shred CR

    CRYSTAL RIVER — Hernando running back Jeremiah Jackson ran for four touchdowns as Crystal River endured growing pains in its new offense during a 56-0 shutout to the Leopards at Earl Bramlett Stadium on Friday.

    The Leopards showed why they were a 9-1 playoff team last season, scoring six of their touchdowns off runs of 29 or more yards while holding Crystal River’s offense to 68 total yards.

    The Pirates are learning a new shotgun-spread offense and are returning only two offensive and defensive starters each next season.

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  • Citrus falls flat in loss

    INVERNESS – South Sumter High’s football team had too much speed and the Citrus Hurricanes played uninspired football Friday night as the Red Raiders beat Citrus 37-9 at the Citrus Bowl.

    Both teams had difficult seasons last year as Citrus finished 2-8 and South Sumter limped to a 3-7 finish.

    South Sumter, long a powerhouse, looks like it will improve tremendously on last season’s record.

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  • Category 5

    Talking to her coaches about the feats Lauryn Rashley accomplished at Citrus High School, it’s hard to tell whether Rashley is a top athlete or competing for a Miss Congeniality award.

    All of the superlatives, words like modesty, grace and heart, describe the junior’s demeanor in the pool as a swimmer and on the platform as a weightlifter.

    Rashley’s crowning achievement in the 2010-11 school year was her second-place finish in the Class 2A state girls weightlifting meet.

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  • Overtraining can lead to injuries

    The curse to every athlete’s existence is an injury that just won’t go away or won’t go away fast enough to be able to return to working out or competing. I always think and preach, to others, that it is so easy to prevent an injury, but that’s not reality.

    Injuries are in general accidents that are a sudden catastrophic failure of a body part or a slow, sneaky repetitive accumulation leading to that body part’s failure.

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