Any road to success for this year’s Wildcats would require defying perception. So it makes perfect sense why Owen J. Roberts would hitch its hopes to a 5-foot-2 center back who endured injuries the previous two seasons. Few understand defying perceptions better than Sabrina Marks.
Expectations were sky-high for Roberts’ final season at Phoenixville and she delivered. Roberts won PAC and District 1-3A championships and finished second at states to cap off an outstanding high school career.
The fine line between individual accomplishments and team goals is often blurred in sports. But in cross country, the line disappears altogether. Owen J. Roberts junior Jane Kratz fulfilled both during an outstanding junior season for both runner and team. Kratz, our 2023 Mercury All-Area Girls’ Cross Country Runner of the Year, led the Wildcats […]
Boyd Skarbek has the type of skill set that a team can build its entire running game around. But for Pope John Paul II head coach Scott Reed, it wasn’t enough. Reed wanted to build an entire offensive identity where everything the Golden Panthers do on offense is predicated on the abilities and threat of […]
Evelyn Mejia was ‘crying of joy’ but not at the time you might expect. It wasn’t at the finish line of a monumental victory. Instead, the Spring-Ford senior’s moment of glee came at the starting line. “I was screaming and jumping, I couldn’t believe it,” Mejia said. “Mia posed the idea of not doing singles […]