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SUNDEVIL
SPORTS
2014 Spring Season Recap
Spring 2014 was highly successful for the Sundevil athletic
teams and numerous individual student athletes. While golf
and tennis experienced growing pains due to graduation last
year, there were some outstanding individual performances.
Lindsey McMillan ’16 won the district singles title, received a
#3 seed finishing fourth at the State meet. Sophie Castlemain
’17 and David Atkin ’17 qualified for state out of districts. In
golf, Isaac Alderete ’14 finished as the Runner-up in A-AAA
boys golf and Klara Castillo ’14 finished third in the girls
division. Isaac shot a school record 69 and Klara shot a 71.
Klara also had a 76.9 season average, as well a 152 at the State
tournament, both school records.
The Varsity Softball team, led by all district players Evone’
Garcia ’15, Skylar Nicholson ’18, Carly Martinez ’14 and
Angelina Navarro ’14, finished third in districts and qualified
for the State Tournament. Evone’ set school records for 292
Career Strikeouts and 378 Career Innings Pitched.
Varsity Lacrosse, led by Korey Largo ’14, Sam Hebenstreit ’14,
Aaron Poole ’15 and Justin Escobedo ’16 qualified for the State
tournament but were ousted in the first round.
Varsity Baseball won their 12th district championship and
advanced to the State Finals at Isotopes Park. The anticipation
of the match-up between #2 seed Sandia Prep and #1 seed Silver
City was intensified by the fact that SPS had been in four finals
and won all four. Unfortunately, the top-seeded Colts proved
too much for the Sundevils. The team, led by Mikey Gangwish
’15, Harris McConnell ’16, Shawn Moore ’14, Michael Snow
’16 and Dalton Turpen ’14, finished at 24-7. JV Baseball, led by
Coach Vince Barnett, set a school record for wins.
The Girls Track team ascended to the podium for the first time
in 11 years, finishing as Runners-up. In her final high school
competition, Rachel Fleddermann ’14 pulled off a rare feat of
winning both the 1600-meter run and the 3200-meter run for
the third consecutive year. In addition, Rachel was a threetime
winner of the State Cross Country titles and finished
her career with nine individual state titles. She was also
awarded the 12 Letter Club Award (only 13 other athletes
have accomplished this). Mackenzie Blackburn ’15 was
a two-time winner, defending her 300-Meter Hurdles title
and helping bring home the gold in the 4 x 400 Meter Relay.
Kiersten Huitt ’16 became the third SPS athlete to win two
golds, winning the 100-Meter High Hurdles and running a
leg in the 4 x 400 Meter Relay. By running the anchor leg in
the 4 x 400 Meter Relay, Kalie Yepa ’15 became the fourth
Sandia Prep athlete to win two golds. She also won the
800-Meter Run in a school record time of 2:22.89. Sydney
Brooks ’14 won her first gold as part of the 4 x 400 Meter
Relay team. Earlier in the season at the Metro Meet, the 4 x
400 Meter Relay team set a school record of 4:02.37. Rachel
Fleddermann also set records of 5:14.61 in the 1600-Meter Run
and 11:17.28 in the 3200-meter run. The Boys Track team was
led by Donald Roberts ’15 and Max Stahl ’15, both of whom
finished in the top ten at the State Meet.
Middle School Softball finished second in the Parochial
League tournament, upsetting Holy Ghost in the Semifinals.
The Middle School Track team took 1st Place trophies in girls
JV and boys varsity competition. Evan Dougan ’18, Levi
Shije ’18, Atlee Gaddis ’19 and Erik Streit ’18 set a Middle
School Track record of 1:57.12 in the 800-Meter Medley Relay.
Dougan also won the 100-Meter Hurdles in 15.38 and Shije
won the 1600-Meter Run in 5:03.00, both school records.
Zack Tenorio ’14 was selected and participated in the AA-
AAA All Star Basketball game earlier in June.
- Pete MacFarlane, Athletic Director
Last year (2013-2014), 461 of our students — 74.8% —
participated in at least one sport, playing on 53 teams
in 21 sports; and 266 of those played a spring sport.
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