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In most sports, looking ahead is a bad idea. High school track and field isn’t most sports. El Dorado coach John Koonce has led the Lady Wildcats to back-to-back 5A state championships. This week isn’t the state meet but the state meet is what’s on Koonce’s mind as El Dorado travels to Lake Hamilton on Tuesday for the 5A South Conference Championships. He’s not alone.
The Cascade Lady Champions picked up their first district win of the season on Saturday afternoon, controlling the Grundy County Lady Yellowjackets, 59-49, in a wire-to-wire victory.
With two meets left before the 5A South Track & Field Championships, El Dorado girls’ coach John Koonce can be found doing his mad scientist routine. Or, perhaps he’s imitating one of those math nerds … uh, I mean geniuses. With pencil and paper in hand, Koonce is currently adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing to see how many points it will take for the Lady Wildcats to repeat as state champions.