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MHS seniors are profiled

Editor's note: Starting this week and continuing through the school year the Marion County Record will be profiling senior athletes from Marion High School.

Each week two to four seniors and their profiles will appear, in no particular order, in the paper to give readers a small insight on their past four years, as well as their future plans.

Sarah Williams

Number of years at MHS: four

Sports involved in the past four years: Basketball, 9-12. Softball, 9-12. Volleyball, 9-12. Track, 10.

Favorite sport(s) to play: Basketball and swimming (not offered at MHS)

Best sport(s): Basketball and swimming.

Past, present, and future:

Even though MHS did not have a swim team, Williams said she would love to be a swim coach more than any other sport.

Swimming is offered in the summer at Peabody and Williams has taken full advantage of that, competing in the sport the past 11 years.

While competing in five sports during her high school career, Sarah said she had many fond memories of playing for the regional championship in softball her sophomore year, and playing Hutch Trinity in the second round of sub-state the same year. But it was the memory of freshman year basketball with coach Phoebe Janzen she called her fondest memory.

Her team went 14-2 and she played with seven of her closest friends. She said Janzen taught them how to play fundamentally sound and have fun while doing it.

Williams currently is playing her final sport, softball, for the Warriors. Her future college plans have been narrowed down to K-State, KU, and Southwest Missouri State. Whichever school she chooses, Sarah would like to major in physical therapy.

whitney wear

Number of years at MHS: four

Sports involved in the past four years: Volleyball, 9-12. Softball, 9-12. Basketball, 9-11. Cheerleading, 9, 12. Dance, 10.

Favorite sport(s) to play: Volleyball

Best sport(s): Volleyball

Past, present, future:

Friends, memories, and staying physically fit were among some of the things Whitney will take from her four years of playing sports at MHS. But it was one crazy moment that may stay with her the longest.

She was on the court for a game against Wichita Trinity her junior season. It was game point, and in the middle of a long rally, when both Whitney and Rebecca Savage went after the ball. Rebecca missed the ball, and it proceeded to bounce off Whitney's head and shoot over the net. Trinity players were so surprised, the ball hit the ground untouched and the Warriors took the game.

Whitney currently is playing her final season of softball, before wrapping up her high school career. She will take the memories of friendship and determination she learned while playing sports to Kansas State.

She will be active in intramural sports while in Manhattan and will use her experience from dance and cheerleading when trying out for the Classy Cats KSU dance team. She would like to study psychology or public relations.

Amber Richmond

Number of years at MHS: four

Sports involved in the past four years: Volleyball, 9-12. Basketball, 9-12. Track, 9-12. Softball, 9-10, 12.

Favorite sport(s) to play: Volleyball

Best sport(s): Volleyball

Past, present, and future: Amber's favorite sport is volleyball and she could see herself coaching that as well as softball. But her fondest memory, along with Williams, is her freshman season of basketball with coach Phoebe Janzen.

They traveled in place of Wichita Collegiate's team because of lack of players. They had fun on every road trip and "decided practice was overrated," and sometimes would only do so once a week.

It didn't seem to bother the team as they went 14-2.

Amber is doubling up this spring by competing in both softball and track. After taking a year off last season, she decided to give softball another try in her final year of high school

While she won't be playing a division I sport at KU this fall, she will be busy with intramurals, and completing a degree in pharmacy.

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