Englewood volleyball coach recovers from concussion

Those hard-to-forget, duck-and-cover drills were used decades ago in schools to teach youngsters to burrow under something as protection against a nuclear explosion.Englewood volleyball coach Kristal Kostiew didn’t get a chance to duck — or cover — during the warmups of the Pirates’ Sept. 10 match against Falcon and was hit on the side of her head by an errant spike.Kostiew suffered a concussion and couldn’t drive for a few days. Assistant coach Erica James took over the coaching reins for the Falcon match.”I was kind of fuzzy for a few days and had the headaches,” she said, “but I’m doing well now.”Valor wins Jeffco title with record 22-under-par roundCoby Welch and the Valor Christian golf team demolished the Deer Creek Golf Course with a 22-under par school record round of 266 on Sept. 14 to win the Jefferson County League 4A title.The tees were moved up, but it was still an awesome round. Only the scores of the top four golfers counted in the team standings, but the Eagles had six golfers finish under par, led by Welch’s 10-under-par 62, which was a school record.Tim Amundson carded a 66, David Leede and Philip Lee each had 69s, and for good measure, Jake Welch fired a 70 and Zach Zurcher a 1-under-par 71.Last September, Valor had four players card under-par rounds at the regional tournament at Raccoon Creek, and three players were under par in a junior varsity championship tournament at Thorncreek on the same day.”Just based on the tees played, I’d give the edge to 9/18 last year since we had two different sets of teams both shoot 11-under par the same day,” said Valor coach Jason Preeo. “But it’s still a great day when six players shoot under par.”Rock Canyon splitting quarterback dutiesSteve Spurrier, the former Duke and Florida football coach now at the helm at South Carolina, once rotated quarterbacks every play. He obviously doesn’t subscribe to the saying that if a team has two quarterbacks it doesn’t have one.Rock Canyon coach Brian Lamb has been rotating senior quarterbacks Josh Goldin and Max Lush each series this season. Neither player has been significantly better than the other so Lamb is using both.Running back Jacob Snocker claims he doesn’t care who hands him the ball.”It has worked out,” said Snocker. “Of course, we would like to have one starter, but both of them have worked so hard. Both of them have proven they are good enough to get the job done. So they deserve to split time.”Warriors know what it’s like to winThe 3n2 Warriors, with seven players from elementary schools in Highlands Ranch, Castle Pines and Parker, won the 10U Triple Crown National Baseball Championship in Park City, Utah, in July.It was the second national title in three years for the Warriors, and six of the players have been on the same team for the past four summers. The 2015 team went 60-12-2 under the direction of head coach Ryan Duman and assistants Jon Shank and Eric Jaworsky.Time management key for coachAfter talking with Cherry Creek coach Dave Logan and Pomona coach Jay Madden following the Bruins-Panthers Sept. 11 game, Logan could be heard doing a commercial on the car radio while departing from the stadium.Yes, it was a prerecorded spot, but still it’s hard to imagine how Logan budgets his time between coaching, his duties with KOA Radio, and being the home and away play-by-play voice of the Denver Broncos, which requires time to prepare, travel and broadcast.Logan has successfully juggled work, coaching and routine day-to-day happenings for years at Mullen and Cherry Creek. He has an afternoon talk show between 3 and 5 p.m. except during the football season, which provides time to direct football practices.”I’ve done it for a while so I have a system,” disclosed Logan. “I have more time getting to school at 9:30 in the morning than most coaches that have to teach classes.”Yards keep piling up for Holy Family’s HelbigHoly Family quarterback Chris Helbig has set the bar pretty high. So high that his 362-yard, four-touchdown performance in a Sept. 18 loss at Palisade seemed like an off night.After his state record 607-yard, six-TD game in the season opener against Mountain View and a 463-yard, seven-touchdown effort against Discovery Canyon, the Tigers’ Class 3A football and basketball standout still had a performance in Holy Family’s third game that most high school quarterbacks would relish.He’s averaging 477.3 yards a game with 17 TD passes and an average of 16.3 yards per reception. And he is accompanied by a group of talented receivers that includes Joe Golter, who established a state record with 336 receiving yards on 18 catches against Discovery Canyon.