Sports

It’s not everyday you can call yourself a national champion but here in Dripping Springs, four local volleyball players will have that distinct honor.

Recent Dripping Springs High School graduate Adam Knutson and rising senior Caroline Dill were named 2021-22 High School All-Americans by the United Soccer Coaches organization. The All-America teams recognize student-athletes who compete in the sport during the winter or spring. Knutson and Dill were

For the Tigers baseball team, the season came and went all too soon — but the awards from that season continue to show up. The team had its usual ups and downs, but when it was all said and done, the Tigers would finish with an 18-13 season with a tie for second place. The Tigers playoff run was short-circuited quickly. That did not keep the quality of the players from being recognized in the district honors being passed around to those who deserved it. The coaches meet just after the district schedule has concluded and vote on the individuals honored. Even though players are selected for a position, the truth is many of the players are called upon to play several positions as the situation calls for. Below are the Dripping Springs players selected for their skills and academics.

As many former athletes are prone to do, they get together and relive the days when they played sports in high school. Bruce Springsteen's “Glory Days” alludes to this very phenomenon in his song. Of course, it is not uncommon to have those days stretched in greatness as remembrances do not match the stats or reduced due to the modesty of the individual. Well, Dripping Springs is one of the few schools in the state that has complete stats for most varsity sports for athletes or anyone else to peruse for recall information. DSHS has been involved in sports since around 1915 but most of the information starts in the 1950's. It provides scores, season individual stats, school sport records, season/career Hall of Honor categories, coaching records, championship teams, history and much, much more. Despite the information provided, there are still gaps. It is expected individuals probably kept scrapbooks and can help make the information more complete. If that is you, then please contact us and we can fill in.

Every decade or so, a special athlete makes their mark in the sports world. In the 90s, Dripping Springs' Tony Salazar was that person for Tiger athletics. He would make his impact on Tiger football in his freshman year of 1996.

The week after the regular season concludes, the coaches always get together to select all the special honors that comes with a sports season. This, of course, includes the all-district and allacademic teams. The alldistrict honors the athletic skills of the individual while the all-academic reinforces the fact a player can juggle the time required to be on the field and the classroom.

All Dripping Springs sports seasons concluded on May 13th as the Lady Tigers softball team was eliminated from the playoffs. On the same day, two track athletes competed at the state track and field meet in Austin. A week earlier, the lone Tiger golfer at the state tournament was playing his final 36 holes. This week was the last hurrah in UIL Class 5A for Dripping Springs before moving on to 6A next year.

Faith Wylie, a graduating senior and soccer player at Dripping Springs High School, is competing in the XXIV Summer Deaflympic Games this week.

It has been a steady-asshe-goes trip for the Dripping Springs Lady Tigers as they move through the playoff bracket. The games have become the type of games one usually expects from fastpitch softball. Good pitching, good defense and adequate hitting. This was evident as they played Southwest Legacy in the area round. Of course, the main thing is to come out on top and advance. The Lady Tigers squeezed by in the first game 1-0 and then came back to take the 4-1 victory.

The Tigers baseball team got a double-dose of what had plagued them throughout the season when they took on the Cedar Park Timberwolves in bi-district action. All season long they have been unable to get a starting pitcher to pitch well in the first couple of innings giving up big leads early. Good teams take advantage and turn them into losses. The major cause is freebie walks making the old adage “you can figure on having a run scored against you for every walk you give up”. Comebacks are also tough when a team does not execute at bats in key situations. Cedar Park had it all as they dealt the Tigers 6-1, 9-1 losses to eliminate them from the playoffs.

The Texas Association of Soccer Coaches announced their regional awards that included All-State. Showing the strength and reputation of the Dripping Springs programs, both squads had an abundance of honors. The Tigers and Lady Tigers each had four individuals named. Coming up soon will be more honors as the Sportswriters All-State teams will be selected as well as the Austin American-Statesman paper will name their All-Centex teams.

The Tigers traveled to Kingwood for the weekend for the Texas High School Lacrosse League Super Regionals. They kicked things off against the hometown Mustangs on Saturday. Drip got things started early behind goals from Aiden Kane, Ryan Williamson and Jack Tanner before Kingwood was able to get on the board. A Williamson assist to Tanner wrapped up the 1st quarter with the Tigers leading 4-1. The offense kept up the pressure in the 2nd quarter with goals by Kane, Williamson and Brendan Linan, driving to a 7-3 lead at the half.