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The Killeen Harker Heights volleyball team took last weekend off.  While everyone else was playing their third tournament, the Lady Knights pulled out of the Aransas Pass Tournament following new travel boundaries set by the Killeen Independent School District athletic department before the school year.

Creating a four-pointed box that surrounds Killeen in a 200-mile radius, KISD athletic director Tom Rogers said the move was made purely for fiscal reasons in an attempt to help alleviate athletic travel costs.

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The legal battle between the Texas Association of Sports Officials and the University Interscholastic League came to a halt on Friday, but it won’t be for long.

On Monday, TASO, the state’s governing body for sports officials, will continue its quest to prevent the UIL, the state’s governing body for high school athletics, from requiring officials to register with the league.

Houston Chronicle
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Bo Jones was named as Corsicana ISD’s interim Athletic Director on Tuesday. Jones replaces Joe Young, who was recently moved to the central office to assume the responsibilities of the  Assistant Superintendent of Special Programs.

Corsicana Daily Sun

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It was not an audible voice from the football heavens that suggested the San Angelo Independent School District construct a new $6 million “Fieldhouse of Dreams” at San Angelo Stadium, but rather the outdated 52-year old former facility that was growing beyond repair.

Built in late 1950s, the previous structure no longer suited the needs of the district’s student athletes.

“It’s great,” said Steve Van Hoozer, SAISD’s director of planning and construction, as he showed off the new 30,000-square-foot facility last week at a public open house.

The field house includes three dressing rooms for boys and one for girls, which is something its predecessor did not have.

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Four decades ago, it was largely experimental at the high school level — considered too expensive by some and too dangerous by others.

Today, however, artificial playing surfaces are becoming commonplace throughout Texas, nearly to the point of putting the natural grass field on the endangered species list.

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Houston ISD named Senior Athletic Program Administrator Marmion Dambrino its newest athletic director on Friday, making her the school district's first female athletic director.

Dambrino, who has worked in the district’s athletic department since 2005, replaces Daryl Wade, who left on July 9 to become the director of the Astros’ Urban Youth Academy.

Houston Chronicle