joking with his favorite person on the
school’s staff, Leon Schrock.
Brant doesn’t necessarily love
squads for most of his high school
school, but he has enjoyed his physical
career in every sport he has played.
Now that he is a senior, his role on the education classes as well as his culinary art classes with Mrs. Gall. “I will
teams have changed. “When you’re a
miss my friends and playing sports
senior you have to be a leader and a
most about high school… As for everyrole model in the sports you play. You
thing else, I’m happy I’m a senior,” said
have to be a role model for the younger
Yoder.
kids so they can see that hard work
The future seems a little cloudy
pays off and they can do the same
right now for Yoder as to what he
when they’re seniors,” he said.
wants to do with it just yet. He is still
Yoder gives a lot of praise to his
undecided on a college although he
coaches for helping him become the
player he is today. “I’ve been told by all is looking into business at IPFW. He
of my coaches over the years that hard wants to get a well paying job so he
can support his family that he plans
work means everything. I have taken
on starting. He’s still undecided if he
that and run with it… No pun intendwants to play any sports at the colleed,” said Yoder.
giate level.
He has had a lot of fun during his
Brant Yoder will be discussed at
high school years so far. He experiWestview for many years to come as
enced his favorite sports moments last
one of the best basketball players to
year when he was a part of two sectional winning teams in basketball and step onto the court. His time is about
to end, however. “To all underclassbaseball. His favorite memory, that
men, my advice to you is simple; have
wasn’t sports related, has been hangfun because it will be over before you
ing out with his friends at lunch and
Sports Scoop ... cont. from 23
know it,” he said.
Westview Boys Basketball
The Warriors have used February as just another month to keep
strengthening their team. They opened
up the month suffering their worst loss
of the season to West Noble at home.
For most of the night, they trailed by at
least ten but then they rallied to send
it into overtime. They didn’t come away
with the victory and it seemed as if a
shift had occurred within the team.
Any doubts about their heart were
crushed in their next game as they
traveled to Prairie Heights and beat
them by fourteen. I’m sure Head Coach
Rob Yoder had something to do with
the improvement over that week. You
could tell by the way the basketball
guys were walking in the hallway at
school that they weren’t enjoying their
after school practices much.
Then their next game, a Valentine’s Day match up against Wawasee,
was a platform to show how well their
offense had improved this season. At
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