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fishonjazz said:
Kearns 95.
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All throughout the 90s, my dad was in a baseball league that played at those Kearns fields. Was there all the time. I think my sister lived out there when she was first married, back in early 2000s. Somewhere by the oval.
 
infection said:
All throughout the 90s, my dad was in a baseball league that played at those Kearns fields. Was there all the time. I think my sister lived out there when she was first married, back in early 2000s. Somewhere by the oval.
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I live pretty close to the oval right now. Walking distance. Thats where my family gym membership is and where my daughter does swim lessons and ice skating lessons.
 
fishonjazz said:
I live pretty close to the oval right now. Walking distance. Thats where my family gym membership is and where my daughter does swim lessons and ice skating lessons.
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I didn’t know they had other stuff, but that makes sense as I was wondering how they justify keeping that if it were ice-skating alone.
 
infection said:
I didn’t know they had other stuff, but that makes sense as I was wondering how they justify keeping that if it were ice-skating alone.
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Ya they have a nice gym, huge basketball facility, and like 5 swimming pools. Oh and an indoor running track and huge outdoor park and track.
 
Good for this guy. He’s earned it. That’s a lot of early mornings and late nights reading stuff.

It’s pretty crazy to me how that end of the valley has changed. In the 90s and early 2000s Hillcrest, Brighton, Jordan, and Alta were huge schools with powerhouse sports teams. Today? Some of them are much smaller than they used to be (enrollment wise), demographics have completely changed, and the powerhouse school for sports (corner canyon) didn’t even exist until recently. I can hardly tell where Jordan High is anymore with all the apartments built up in that area. the new Hillcrest High looks gorgeous from the outside. Alta High has a gigantic building on its west side, I think it might be an auditorium that looks the size of the Delta Center.

Crazy how things change.
 
The Thriller said:
It’s pretty crazy to me how that end of the valley has changed. In the 90s and early 2000s Hillcrest, Brighton, Jordan, and Alta were huge schools with powerhouse sports teams.
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If memory serves, Hillcrest won one football game while I attended - across all three years. But that was early to mid-90s. lol
 
Jason said:
If memory serves, Hillcrest won one football game while I attended - across all three years. But that was early to mid-90s. lol
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Haha the records get spotty on the internet pre-93. The UHSAA only posts the results of the playoffs pre-93. So your memory could be our best resource. in 93 they won one game. But from 94 to 97 they either got to .500 or had a winning record and made the playoffs. One year they made it to the second round. Which again, was pretty good since not every team made the playoffs (unlike today) and there were some real powers emerging in 5a, Skyline in particular. They were arguably the first school to get creative with their recruiting methods to skirt around rules. Now it’s a free for all and student athletes can play wherever they want. Corner Canyon exploits this the best now.
 
The Thriller said:
Haha the records get spotty on the internet pre-93. The UHSAA only posts the results of the playoffs pre-93. So your memory could be our best resource. in 93 they won one game. But from 94 to 97 they either got to .500 or had a winning record and made the playoffs. One year they made it to the second round. Which again, was pretty good since not every team made the playoffs (unlike today) and there were some real powers emerging in 5a, Skyline in particular. They were arguably the first school to get creative with their recruiting methods to skirt around rules. Now it’s a free for all and student athletes can play wherever they want. Corner Canyon exploits this the best now.
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Ah, must have been that sophomore year in 93 I remember and then I quit caring?! LOL
 
Jason said:
If memory serves, Hillcrest won one football game while I attended - across all three years. But that was early to mid-90s. lol
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My memory matches yours in that I don't remember Hillcrest being a powerhouse. It wasn't just football. In the Battle of the Ax, which is the yearly competition in wrestling between Brighton and Hillcrest, the Huskies only won 3 or 4 times in 50 years.

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There was also the Battle for the Jug, which was the basketball competition. While it wasn't as lopsided as the Ax, I still seem to remember that Brighton had 4 or 5 wins for ever loss to Hillcrest.

I don't have anything against Hillcrest or anyone who went there, but the rivalry between Hillcrest and Brighton seemed like the rivalry between the Harlem Globetrotters and the Washington Generals.
 
In 1994 Hillcrest beat Brighton 35-28. Brighton finished better by making it to the state semifinals. I don’t remember the Washington Generals ever beating the Globetrotters or the globetrotters only getting to the semifinals of any tournament. So maybe not the best comparison?

In 1995 Hillcrest beat Brighton 27-24. Both lost in the 1st round of the playoffs.

I could keep going.

The point is, those schools in the southeast portion of the valley have changed drastically as their populations have changed. Hillcrest, Brighton, Alta, and Jordan used to all be huge schools with some really competitive extra curricular programs. Now? It’s a bit more spotty as young and growing have shifted to south and west.
 
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How so? I looked up the records earlier off UHSAA’s website when Jason and I were chatting. I already knew the results, just didn’t remember the scores. It takes like 20 seconds to look up if you know how to use UHSAA’s website. Don’t whine when others prove you wrong through facts. You should be used to that on this website by now.

Why do you always want to argue? Are you really so starved for attention? It would’ve just been easier to respond as Jason did, and laughed it off. Our memories always play tricks on us. In my memory, the team we wanted to avoid in high school was Jordan. But they really weren’t very dominant in sports (football mostly and a few years of basketball) until the mid to late 2000s, until I began to look on UHSAA’s website. Again, memories can play funny tricks on us. Laugh at yourself, try it for once!
 
The Thriller said:
Our memories always play tricks on us. In my memory, the team we wanted to avoid in high school was Jordan. But they really weren’t very dominant in sports (football mostly and a few years of basketball) until the mid to late 2000s, until I began to look on UHSAA’s website. Again, memories can play funny tricks on us.
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In my memory, I remember the youth football team out of Butler Middle School (feeder to Brighton) posting a shutout season. No team scored a single point against them in any game all season. They had shirts made up with every game and their score.

I remember Brighton had a ballet room. Big room. Mirrors lined an entire wall and there were wooden rails. I remember the Battle of the Ax, Battle of the Jug, and Battle of the Paddle events for wrestling, basketball, and swimming.

I have no idea if the school was any good academically, but the emphasis they put on athletics there at Brighton is a thing I remember.

Now where I am in Southern California I contrast that culture with the schools here. It is a different time and a different place. In Southern California, it is all about club sports. The stars of the teams play their sports competitively year round. There is year round football, year round basketball, year round wrestling, golf, baseball, swimming, track, whatever, and it is all private. The school isn't the driving institution unless they have a healthy club affiliate for whatever sport, and many of them do.

Maybe Utah does that now too. I don't know as I don't live there, but I am interested when I see interstate match-ups between Utah sport-centric public schools and the Southern California schools filled with club sport specialist athletes.
 
The Thriller said:
The point is, those schools in the southeast portion of the valley have changed drastically as their populations have changed. Hillcrest, Brighton, Alta, and Jordan used to all be huge schools with some really competitive extra curricular programs. Now? It’s a bit more spotty as young and growing have shifted to south and west.
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Not to mention Skyline with their "recruiting" back in the day...
 
The Thriller said:
A torch that has now been passed down to Corner Canyon. A team that featured a crazy assortment of Div I athletes from all over the valley.
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Bravo Corner Canyon. I wish them success. I fully support the ability to 'choice-in' to schools providing a higher level of service to students and their parents.
 
infection said:
All throughout the 90s, my dad was in a baseball league that played at those Kearns fields. Was there all the time. I think my sister lived out there when she was first married, back in early 2000s. Somewhere by the oval.
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I played little league in Kearns. Kearns American. I can’t recall exactly where the fields were, but I know they’re long gone now. I remember practicing not too far from Kearns High and Kearns Jr. High. My little brother lives in the boundaries for Thomas Jefferson and Kearns High.
 
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