The 2022-2023 El Dorado News-Times Scholar-Athletes of the Year were announced this week. El Dorado’s Julia Jackson was the Female Scholar-Athlete with El Dorado’s Kieran Obiozo named the Male Scholar-Athlete winner.
With two meets left before the 5A South Track & Field Championships, El Dorado girls’ coach John Koonce can be found doing his mad scientist routine. Or, perhaps he’s imitating one of those math nerds … uh, I mean geniuses.
With pencil and paper in hand, Koonce is currently adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing to see how many points it will take for the Lady Wildcats to repeat as state champions.
As a junior, El Dorado’s Addrienna Gray was a contributor in the Lady Wildcats’ first-ever track and field state championship. As a senior, she wants to do more.