Monday, November 19, 2012
Saints lose seven seniors from last year, but believe new team chemistry will keep team on winning track.
A fairly humorous moment occurred at Villa Duchesne girls basketball practice recently, when head coach Jane Ellen Kuenzle tried to name all the players on her team off the top of her head. The coach tried as best she could to remember everybody on the roster, and even named several players twice, but even a veteran coach like Kuenzle couldn't remember all the new names on her team without taking a look around Villa's beautiful Kenefick Gymnasium to remind her who was actually on the team this year. "We have a lot of new girls up on varsity this year," Kuenzle said. "I think we've only got four girls coming back that have played for me before, and one of them was injured last year. So, this team is a whole lot different than last year." …
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Junior three-sport standout took ninth at Class 1 state golf tournament, helping the Saints finish second overall as a team.
Well the voters seem to love Villa Duchesne, because this is the third straight week that a Villa student-athlete has won our Patch MVP Athlete of the Week award. Field hockey star Maggie Grzeskoviak was the first, then cross country phenom Hannah Deines made it two in a row. And now, thanks to a landslide victory in the voting, golfer Morgan Gast is this week's Patch MVP of the Week. The Villa Duchesne junior is a three-sport standout for the Saints, who also plays basketball and soccer. But it was her performance on the links this season that earned her a Patch MVP nomination this week. And Gast was at her best in the biggest tournament of the year -- the Class 1 state meet at the Meadow Lake Acres Country Club in New Bloomfield, MO, -- …
Monday, November 12, 2012
Villa's sensational little leader helped the Saints take fourth place at the MSHSAA Class 3 state championship meet, by finishing 8th and running the fastest time at state of any St. Louis-area runner.
Once again, the vote was close. But a late push in the final hours of the balloting helped send Villa Duchesne freshman cross country star Hannah Deines over the top, and into the spotlight as this week's Patch MVP "Athlete of the Week." And it's such a deserving award for Deines, who shook off an up and down first high school running season, to finish in 8th place at the MSHSAA Class 3 state championship meet. The Saints took fourth as a team, and a huge part of that was because Deines led her squad, by running the fastest time at the state meet of any runner from the St. Louis area. Deines also figures to be one of the top newcomers to watch when the spring running season rolls around. Through the great help of the folks over at Villa, …
Michael Rother
9:23 am on Wednesday, November 14, 2012
We're all very proud of you Hannah. more ›