It felt good for Corona’s team to get down to the business of playing football against someone other than their own players in practice, even if it was only a scrimmage against Mountain Pointe, after a month of turmoil and controversy surrounding the team. Mountain Pointe, boasting a 12-1 record last season, looked sharp against [...]
One Kyrene Corridor 12-year-old proved that you can do almost anything if you set your mind to it by winning the Junior Olympics National Championship Pentathlon Midget Boys Category after training for only two months. Austin Hornbaker, a seventh grader at Aprende Middle School, says he didn’t even think about competing in the pentathlon until [...]
Hopes of launching a new era for the Corona del Sol football team got a serious setback in July when school officials suspended new head coach Zane Zamenski for using what was said to be inappropriate language during pre-season training sessions. The Aztec squad had a 4-6 record last season and missed the playoffs. Bringing [...]
After concluding an extensive investigation into allegations of inappropriate language and comments made by Zane Zamenski, the head football coach at Corona del Sol High School, the Tempe Union High School District has concluded that there were instances of inappropriate comments and language used by the coach in recent weeks. During the investigation that began [...]
Corona del Sol’s class of 2009 has several star athletes, including members of the school’s 2009 baseball team who won the State 5A-I Championship. Several members of this bumper crop of athletes went on to play at the college level. Here’s how some of these fared playing at the next level. Michael Felton and Brock [...]
Tempe South Little League had all three of its All Star teams in the District 13 championship games. The 12-year-old Majors won the championship and will play in the sectional tournament in Prescott July 19-21. Team includes, from left: Manager Art Becker, Coaches Albert Plotner and Billy Martinez. Players Manny Coonrandt, Michael Garlid, Jake Gonzalez, [...]
Corona’s football players have been busy this summer adapting to a few offensive and defensive schemes and overall athlete expectations by participating in workouts, passing leagues and weight training under new head coach Zane Zamenski. “Summer football workouts and summer passing leagues have been very productive,” said Zamenski. “We are currently finishing off our Aztec Athletic [...]
Corona del Sol’s athletic teams playing such “individual” sports as golf, swimming and tennis will fall under the new AIA regional and state tournament changes this season. The rest of the teams will not be affected until a year later. Aztec athletic teams that did not finish as state champions or runners-up in 2009-10 gained [...]
The Copper Football League will hold a silent auction to help pay medical expenses for former Corona del Sol athlete Kareem Khalile on Saturday, March 27, at the Moon Valley High School football stadium, Khalile, 19, suffered a spinal chord injury on Jan. 16, just minutes into the opening game of the season for the [...]
The Aztec wrestling team, touting seven seniors, captured its second straight 5A-I state team tournament Feb. 21 at Tempe High School. It was only the second title for Corona in a wrestling program started 30 years ago by former coach Dave Vibber, who retired last year after winning the Aztecs’ first championship. The Aztecs did [...]