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Local athletes made, left plenty of memories

Not every athlete from Desert Vista or Mountain Pointe took home trophies or medals, but they all came away from the past school year with memories.

Pride’s Trotter gang: Built for speed

Chardea Trotter, Ben Trotter and Brandon Trotter don’t trot.
- Posted: March 26
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- Trotter, Pride, Brandon
Marshall, grid converts start from scratch

After 18 weeks on a football field it figures Israel Marshall would be in good shape.
- Posted: January 22
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- Marshall, Shape, Good
Keeper Kadisak has grown up to be stalwart in goal for Pride

It started out as a lark, but Kevin Kadisak turned the shenanigans into an asset.
- Posted: January 20
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- Kadisak, Keeper, Goal
Ardon’s SAT juggling act helps put Pride on top

Hollywood thrives on these kinds of story plots.
- Posted: December 08
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- Team, Half, Ardon
‘Aura,’ can-do attitude took MP to doorstep of title shot

They were not acquainted with losing this season.
- Posted: December 08
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- Shot, Last, Acquainted
Mountain Pointe Pride football

The 2008 Mountain Pointe football season is over. For complete coverage of last season, scroll down. Continue to check back here throughout the season to check on the Pride for a constantly-updated archive of stories and multimedia during the offseason.
- Posted: March 30
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- Html, Season, Href
Vaughan introduced as Pride football coach

He's played tournament golf so par isn't good enough for Norris Vaughan.
- Posted: January 26
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- Vaughan, Football, Going
From champs to near misses, the teams that shaped the ’09 local sports landscape

Desert Vista boys win state track and field title
- Posted: December 31
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- Track, Field, Vista
Pride duo sweeps doubles badminton championship

Some people believe in love at first sight.
- Posted: November 11
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- Doubles, Mountain, Championship
Pride finish 2nd in state badminton final

When the badminton season started in August Mountain Pointe had only one player with any varsity experience.
- Posted: November 06
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- Phoenix, State, Badminton
‘All-Tribune:’ DV’s Olsen named ‘Swimmer of the year’

When Katie Olsen started swimming at age 6, the one event she could not do was the breaststroke.
- Posted: December 29
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- Olsen, Tribune, Age
Olsen leads runner-up DV girls to swim success

When the state 5A-I girls swimming championship meet ended last season, they could have started engraving Katie Olsen’s name on this year’s 100-yard breastroke gold medal.
- Posted: November 11
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- Olsen, Girls, Swimming
Thunder, Pride solid with state on deck

Desert Vista is back, and Mountain Pointe is right there with them.
- Posted: November 04
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- Desert, Vista, Right
SWIM AND DIVE: Public school champs loaded once again

Just add water and the Desert Vista swim and dive team is ready to go.
- Posted: September 24
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- Swim, Desert, Dive
Team effort propels DV boys golf to state runner-up status

Don’t look for an all-state player on the Desert Vista boys golf team.
- Posted: November 13
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- Runner, Boys, State
MP boys, girls soccer ready for new foes

There’s some good news and some bad news for the Mountain Pointe’s boys soccer team, news that comes with being realigned in a new athletic region. “It’s good that we don’t have to get our butts kicked two times a year again by Corona,” Pride coach Bryan Sabato said. “But it’s bad that outside of Marcos we’ve never seen the other team in our conference.” Mountain Pointe had been in the fourteam Central Region, but the revised East Valley Region is a mixture of teams from the Central, Pima, Southern and former East Valley conferences. The new conference includes Casa Grande, Mesa Desert Ridge, Gilbert Perry, Mesa Skyline and Westwood, as well as Tempe Marcos de Niza. “We don’t know what Perry or Desert Ridge can do, for example,” Sabato said. “You can read about them and talk to people who have seen them, but until you actually play them you just don’t know.” The Pride have shed teams like Corona del Sol, Basha and rival Desert Vista from their regular season schedule in t…
- Posted: January 08
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- Soccer, Boys, Foes
DV soph Mathers wins 112-pound state mat title

It was a state championship that was 363 days in the making.
- Posted: February 18
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- State, Mathers, Day
Mathers building mat reputation at DV

When the referee raised wrestler Robbie Mathers’ arm as the winner of his 112-pound class, Mathers wasn’t in a celebratory mood.
- Posted: January 12
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- Mathers, Reputation, Building
DV’s Saleem wins 1st state championship

For more than two hours, Ahmad Saleem played tennis with a poker face.
- Posted: May 07
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- Desert Vista, Tennis, Mountain Pointe
DV girls dominate state vault finals

They call Desert Vista’s girls pole vault team the Magnificent Seven, and the athletes showed why Saturday at the state 5A-I girls championship at Mesa Community College.
- Posted: May 18
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- Desert Vista, Track, Mountain Pointe
Pride fall short of baseball title, come up long on memories

Before he left the field, Mountain Pointe senior Josh Alexander scooped up a couple of handfuls of infield dirt from the Camelback Ranch baseball stadium and put them in a plastic bag.
- Posted: May 18
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- Desert Vista, Mountain Pointe
If Pride’s Cron sees good pitch, it’s a mistake

If Kevin Cron sees a baseball anywhere around the plate, he probably threw it.
- Posted: March 22
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- Cron, Sees, Pitch

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Mountain Pointe Pride football

Vaughan introduced as Pride football coach

Norris Vaughan, named Mountain Pointe High School's next head football coach, met with players for the first time Friday morning at the school.

Pride duo sweeps doubles badminton championship

Mountain Pointe's Sienna Martinez, left, and Holly Phillips compete during the 5A Badminton State Tournament in Phoenix.

Pride finish 2nd in state badminton final

Despite having only one returning player from last season, Mountain Pointe finished second to Phoenix Xavier in the state 5A-I badminton championship for the second consecutive year Wednesday night. Members of the varsity team are: left to right, Danielle Stewart, Courtney Dupuis, Sienna Martinez, Holly Phillips, Kendra Hopkins, Nadya Zolotova and coach Pom Brown.

Pride finish 2nd in state badminton final

Mountain Pointe senior Sienna Martinez won her No. 1 singles match against Phoenix Xavier Wednesday night as the Pride finished as a runner-up to the Gators in the state 5A-I team championship.

Pride duo sweeps doubles badminton championship

Mountain Pointe's Holly Phillips prepares to serve during the 5A Badminton Doubles State Tournament in Phoenix.

‘All-Tribune:’ DV’s Olsen named ‘Swimmer of the year’

Girl's swimmer of the year Katie Olsen of Desert Vista.

Olsen leads runner-up DV girls to swim success

Desert Vista junior Katie Olsen set a state record in winning the 100-yard breastroke at the state 5A-I championships on Saturday.

Team effort propels DV boys golf to state runner-up status

The Desert Vista boys golf team pushed through the field this week to bring a state runner-up trophy to Ahwatukee.

DV soph Mathers wins 112-pound state mat title

Robbie Mathers became the ninth state champion in Thunder history and the first at 112 pounds with his victory Wednesday at Wells Fargo Arena in Tempe.

DV soph Mathers wins 112-pound state mat title

Robbie Mathers became the ninth state champion in Thunder history and the first at 112 pounds with his victory Wednesday at Wells Fargo Arena in Tempe.

DV soph Mathers wins 112-pound state mat title

Robbie Mathers became the ninth state champion in Thunder history and the first at 112 pounds with his victory Wednesday at Wells Fargo Arena in Tempe.

DV soph Mathers wins 112-pound state mat title

Robbie Mathers became the ninth state champion in Thunder history and the first at 112 pounds with his victory Wednesday at Wells Fargo Arena in Tempe.

Mathers building mat reputation at DV

Robbie Mathers, just a sophomore at Desert Vista and already one of the state's top high school wrestlers, was none too pleased after his opponent last week during a match against Mesa Red Mountain was scratched, rather than face Mather on the mat. Mather was credited with the victory.