by Cyril Adkins

The 2015 season was 1 to remember. The Tigers came up 1 yard short of be-

ing the first football team in school history to make the playoffs back to back.

Although the season didn’t end as planned the Tigers have much to hold our

their heads up high about. The team showed character, discipline, a strong

work ethic, perseverance, and were competitive throughout the season.

Smithville Football will always pride itself on reaching team goals and a couple

of milestones from this season are worth mentioning. The Tigers finished the

season with one of the top offenses in school history. Quarterback Garrett

Mathis and receiver Cade Goertz fell just short of school yardage records at

1,591 and 623 yards respectively. The Tigers are also proud of the twelve play-

ers selected to the All-District Team and the sixteen student athletes who

earned Academic All-District Honors.

The Tigers have hit the ground running this spring with the best off-season

workouts I’ve seen since in my sixteen years of coaching. It is clear to me that

the kids understand that in order to achieve greatness they must get out of

their comfort zone and embrace change and challenge. Their strong work

ethic is laying the foundation of the future successes of Tiger Football.

We are excited and ready for the 2016 season and the new district alignment!

Head Coach: Cyril Adkins

Assistant Coaches: Sergio Garcia, Stetson Gommert, Charles Hodge, Mike Maldonado, Ben Matthewson, Michael Mills, Ryan Moerbe, Wayne Otto, Jon Ross, Shane Savoie, Jason Segel, Josh Thomas

Trainer: Shannon Flores

LADY TIGER VOLLEYBALL

Tiger Football

Football P.1

Volleyball P.1

Cross Country P.2

Tennis P.2

Basketball P.2

by Brittany Brown

The 2015 Volleyball season was a season to remember. Our

volleyball program is made up of a group of young ladies

with a solid work ethic and dedication to their sport. We

started with a week of strong two-a-days where the girls

proved they wanted more than just to make the play-offs.

They fought hard through sand pit workouts and running

timed sprints. The girls worked daily with the mindset of

achieving the ultimate goal of winning the State Champion-

ship.

We hosted a Freshmen and JV tournament in August—The

Lady Tiger Showdown. The JV team won the tournament

against a competitive field and the freshmen team closed

the tournament with a trophy earning third place. The Lady

Tigers are very appreciative of the many spectators who

came to the tournament in support of the teams! We look

forward to hosting the tournament again next year adding

more competitive teams.

Libero Haylee Silves earned 1st Team All District honors

with over 400 digs for the season. Twin outside hitters

Shawna & Shelby Randall were named to the All-District

2nd Team with 200+ kills each for the season. Most of the

matches the Lady Tigers lost last year were turned in to

wins this year which became obvious signs of progress as a

team. The girls showed spirit and heart in every game of

every match. The Lady Tigers finished 5th in district and

have set the tone for a positive future of success.

Head Coach: Brittany Brown

Assistant Coaches: Elise Mezger, Matthew Russell

Fall 2015

Smithville Tiger

Athletics

Football Realignment: 2017 District 10-4A Division 2

Teams: Caldwell, Columbus, Giddings, Gonzales, LaGrange, Smithville

by Jason Segel

The 2015 Fall Team Tennis season has concluded with the Tigers finishing 4th out of 6 teams mak-ing the playoffs for the second year in a row. The overall record for the Fall Team Tennis season was 3-3. The team finished with a 2-3 record in District with wins over Burnet and Caldwell and losses to Liberty Hill, Lampasas, and Taylor. The non-district win was against Bastrop HS.

One of the highlights of the season was how Co-dy Spencer went undefeated in boys’ singles, un-defeated in boys’ doubles with partner Sam Gar-za, and continued the undefeated streak in mixed doubles with Serena Segel.

Tiger Tennis is looking forward to a successful Spring season with 4 Regional Qualifiers return-ing from 2015 Spring season.

Coach: Jason Segel

Lady Tiger Basketball

Cross Country by T. J. Christian

The Cross Country team did a great job this year doing well in many meets bring-ing home some hardware in the process.

The kids competed in the Burning Pines Run in Bastrop and had the opportunity to help out a great cause which was a good experience for them.

Notable accomplishments from the sea-son include the JV girls finishing in 4th, 5th, and 6th place at the Rice Meet earn-ing medals. In the Round Top meet all of our teams placed in the top 10 and won 1st overall.

With several runners returning we are looking forward to next year!

HS Coaches: T.J. Christian, Scotty Stephens, Alex Pylant

Tiger Basketball Fall Tennis

by Sergio Garcia

Entering the 2015-2016 basketball season we worked to address many things including adapting to a new coach and a new system. We started the season by setting team goals making sure had a direction to go and a plan of how to get there. Our number one goal was to win a district championship. In order to meet that goal we determined we must im-prove on teamwork, becoming better basket-ball players, and being good citizens.

We are now in the middle of the district schedule and have dropped 4 of 5 games. While most people would consider this season a failure thus far we believe it has been a suc-cess. We have experienced tremendous growth as a team and the kids have become better basketball players. We have taken each district opponent to the limit and could have easily won those 4 games that were losses.

We still have so much to play for in the sec-ond half of district as winning the next 4 games would earn us a spot in the playoffs which we are quite capable of accomplishing that feat. We have not peaked as a team, and when we do, look out, we are going to be an impressive team.

The players are starting to believe in one an-other and are challenging each other to step up their game. We have players that are step-ping into leadership roles and running with it. We are not where we need to be but slowly we are getting there. The attitude is fully opti-mistic and the kids are hungry to improve. We are determined to make the playoffs. Eve-ry program has a starting point and this is ours.

Head Coach: Sergio Garcia

Assistant Coaches: Ben Matthewson, Jon Ross

by Scotty Stephens

The Lady Tiger basketball season started with a run of 6 straight wins which included a tourna-ment championship at Keene ISD.

As a team we set goals for the year which include getting back to the playoffs, having a 20 win season, and earning a spot on the Wall of Champions. We are on pace to reach each of the goals and our accomplishments are by-products of our successful teamwork and strong relationships.

As coaches it is our goal to build relationships with our athletes working to help them be good role models after being in our program. In our huddles before the games we state “everything matters because we all matter”

I have had such joy in coaching this group of girls. Our four seniors are some of the hardest working kids I have been around. The future for Lady Tiger basketball is bright.

Coach: Scotty Stephens

Assistant Coaches: TJ Christian, Brittany Brown

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Basketball Alignment: 2016-2017 District 20-4A

Teams: Caldwell, Giddings, LaGrange, Navasota, Smithville