Troy Petz, long jumper, 12th grade Feb. 28 at Lynden High School.

Troy Petz, a senior at Lynden High School, is  two time state champion as punter and a state champ as long jumper. Petz is working to win state in the long jump again.  

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Grace Potter, senior shortstop/catcher, was part of Lynden High School's 4th place finish in 2022. Her goal this season is to bat above .500.

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Henry Smith won the camp triathlon at the all boys summer camp, Falling Creek, in Tuxedo, North Carolina. Henry, known around camp as Poptart, received the moniker from a paddling counselor who was in disbelief that a kid did not like Poptarts. Rather, Henry would take them back to his cabin from his paddling trips and trade them for other desserts.

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Janis Grellner was ranked nationally by United States Archery Team (Team) for Master's Women Recurve for four consecutive years. Last, year she was unable to complete the 3 out of 5 tournaments needed to achieve ranking due to the pandemic. She is trainin

Janis Grellner first picked up a bow at 37 years old at an outdoor camp that taught women Dutch oven cooking, kayaking, pistol and rifle shooting and archery on Boy Scout campgrounds in Potosi, Missouri. “Because a lot of women when you learn a sport pretty much dominated by men, you want to learn from other women involved in the sport,” Grellner said. “So having an environment that had people who would be able to help teach that was very beneficial to a lot of women there.” Over the next two decades, she won dozens more state and regional competitions; achieved a United States Archery Team national ranking in recurve; and attended the Olympic Trials twice, in 2011 and 2015. Now, Grellner, 57, dominates the USA Archery Women’s master’s division for archers aged 50 and up. She has won first in five out the past six years in the division, only missing last year because of the pandemic. As she still competes, Grellner has become the mentor for the next generation of archers, training them from her range in her Linn, Missouri.

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Adam Johnston has made many connections through hockey, starting from his dad’s skating lessons at the Macon Skate Center about the time he could walk and spanning across the past two decades as a player, coach and head referee at the Twister’s Hockey League. It is his hockey family that supported him through his cancer and what keeps him driving back an hour and 20 minutes to the fairgrounds in Hallsville, a town whose motto is “The Small Town with a Big Heart.”

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The boisterous banter of boys has filled a lush arborescent bowl of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Zirconia, North Carolina for the past 54 years. Falling Creek follows an American tradition of camp and leads a group of 300 plus through a boyhood journey that often transpires across multiple summers throughout its 890 acre plot enriched with two spring-fed lakes, 15 miles of trails, and private access to the Green River. The boys are inculcated into a lore and a code that defines their sense of masculinity and brotherhood.

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