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Knowing that, investors should look for holdings with the potential to survive and thrive for decades. Fortunately, investors have plenty of options, and these three well-established consumer staples stocks should stand out.
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The public knows PepsiCo (NASDAQ: PEP) best for its flagship cola. Nonetheless, the company owns numerous well-known beverage and food brands, including Gatorade, Mountain Dew, Tostitos, and Quaker.
Its stock had suffered in recent years as the public turned against unhealthy beverages and packaged foods. PepsiCo has since pivoted, emphasizing healthier ingredients in its products and buying brands such as Siete to bolster this reputation.

#investors #holdings

A few weeks ago, I used Uber Eats to deliver me a case of bottled water, a dozen Starbucks iced coffee bottles, and a 12-pack of Gatorade Zero.
It cost a little more than going to the store less than two miles from our house, but instead of having to lug those bulky items from the store to my car and then my kitchen, I only had to bring them in from the front door.
That was either a lazy choice or evidence of excellent time management skills, but it's a solid example of how people use the internet. Because while people generally think it's much higher (I've asked the question to thousands of people on various podcasts and live shows over the years), digital sales are still a relatively small percentage of total retail sales.
"E-commerce sales in the second quarter of 2026 accounted for 17.1 percent of total sales," United States Census Bureau data showed.
Consumers have shifted some of their purchases online, and they're looking for convenience.

#people #zero

As the 2026-27 Iowa women's basketball season approaches, the Hawkeyes will host 2027 four-star combo guard commit Jada Seubert and 2027 four-star center recruit Khalia Hartwell on official visits this upcoming Cy-Hawk weekend on Sept. 11-12.
Hartwell, a 6-foot-5 prospect, is the nation's No. 16 overall player, the No. 2 center and the top player in South Carolina, per 247Sports. Rivals rates Hartwell as the country's No. 26 player, as the No. 3 center and as the top player in South Carolina.
A product of Westside High School in Anderson, S.C., the 6-foot-5 center was named South Carolina's Gatorade Player of the Year after averaging 12.4 points, 8.3 rebounds and 2.2 blocks per game.
With Iowa sandwiched between official visits to Georgia (Sept. 4) and Virginia Tech (Sept. 18), the Hawkeyes hope that their recruitment pitch and potentially the influence of Seubert can help advance the program to the top of Hartwell's mind.
Seubert, a 5-foot-11 combo guard from Stevens Point, Wis., has been committed to Iowa since Jan. 17. She is ranked as the No. 42 overall prospect, the No. 4 combo guard, and the No. 1 recruit in Wisconsin, per 247Sports.

#player #seubert #center #guard

After weeks focused on his fledgling career, Keon Johnson caught up with family. The Houston Astros had the 18-year-old infielder and recent draft pick and his family attend Sunday's game at Daikin Park, with Johnson arriving from their minor-league facility in West Palm Beach, Fla., late Saturday.
"It was a pretty surreal moment to finally see them again," Johnson said. "Once I got to see them, it was like pretty much all the weight finally got back off my shoulders again."
The Astros selected Johnson in the third round in the July draft, with the No. 93 overall pick, out of First Presbyterian Day School in Macon, Ga. They signed Johnson, who was committed to play at Vanderbilt, for a reported over-slot $2 million bonus. Slot value for the No. 93 pick this year was $846,900.
A shortstop listed at 6-foot-2 and 200 pounds, Johnson was selected as the Gatorade Georgia high school player of the year as a junior in 2025. Astros director of amateur scouting Cam Pendino deemed him an "unbelievably impressive kid" with an "exciting blend of bat-to-ball and pitch recognition" after the draft.
"We think our hitting instruction can really help unlock the contact quality here," Pendino said in July. "But when you have a guy with a special blend of bat-to-ball and approach - and really specifically bat-to-ball and pitch recognition as an 18-year-old kid with really good actions in the middle of the diamond on the dirt - it's an awesome recipe."

#year #july

PepsiCo's 54 consecutive dividend increases and Colgate-Palmolive's 61.5% gross margin show how essential, habitual products keep compounding through every market cycle.
3M's specified industrial materials lock customers in through full qualification requirements, delivering 5.4% organic growth and 24.9% operating margins in Q2 2026.
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Boring works. Over a market cycle, essential-service businesses tend to keep selling toothpaste, chips, and industrial adhesives regardless of what the S&P 500 is doing on any given afternoon. Consider PepsiCo's own dividend record: management has committed to a 4% increase in the annualized dividend per share beginning with the June 2026 payment, which will represent the 54th consecutive annual increase. A streak that long spans every officially declared bear market since the mid-1970s. The three names below are held together by that same idea: durable demand, unglamorous products, and customers who do not easily leave.
PepsiCo (NASDAQ:PEP) sells convenient foods and beverages: Lay's, Doritos, Cheetos, Quaker, Tostitos, Pepsi, Gatorade, Mountain Dew, Aquafina, and Tropicana. These are low-ticket, habitual purchases. When households tightened budgets in 2008-2009 and again in 2020, they did not stop buying salty snacks or sports drinks; they traded down within the aisle, and PepsiCo's multi-tier portfolio caught them on the way. On the most recent call, CEO Ramon Laguarta described the international business plainly: "The truth is that all those markets have remained very resilient."

#consecutive

Early into their varsity careers, brothers Zayd and Asha Mirza have already shown flashes of their famous older brother.
Ali Mirza graduated from Bedford High School in June as the boys soccer team's all-time goals leader (74). He was the Gatorade New Hampshire Player of the Year last fall after logging 33 goals and 10 ***** ists, helping Bedford reach the NHIAA Division I semifinals.
Asha, a midfielder, made the Bedford varsity team as a freshman. Zayd, a junior striker, spent the past two seasons on the junior varsity team before earning his varsity call-up this fall.
"I just feel like in front of goal, they're all confident and all are good with both feet," said 19th-year Bedford coach Stuart Pepper before practice on Wednesday. "Goal-scoring looks like it comes easy to all of them."
Asha scored his first goal in his first game — Bedford's season-opening 6-1 win over Winnacunnet on Friday. Asha and Zayd both come off the bench for the Bulldogs, who were 2-0 entering their Thursday night home bout against Exeter.

#goal

With a market cap of $192.5 billion, PepsiCo, Inc. (PEP) is a global leader in the manufacture, marketing, distribution, and sale of a broad range of beverages and convenient foods. The company distributes its products through direct-store-delivery, customer warehouses, third-party networks, and e-commerce platforms, serving a wide variety of retail and foodservice customers worldwide.
Companies valued at $10 billion or more are generally classified as "large-cap" stocks, and PepsiCo fits this criterion perfectly. Its diverse portfolio includes iconic brands such as Pepsi-Cola, Frito-Lay, Quaker, Gatorade, Tropicana, and Mountain Dew, operating across seven segments spanning North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and the Asia Pacific region.
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CHICAGO — On the last day of June, the flags danced in a stiff wind above Wrigley Field and Moe Mullins arrived more than three hours before first pitch, just like usual. He set up his camping chair under the ash tree at the corner of Waveland and Kenmore, across the street from the back of the left-field bleachers, and the neighborhood slowly came to life.
In time, the street vendors appeared and the merchandise stands opened and the patio at Murphy's, a block away, started to fill in. Soon, the spectators gathered along the brick wall and waited for the bleacher gates to open. For a while, though, it was quiet, and the last refuge of old Wrigley, and its old neighborhood, belonged to Mullins.
He is the unofficial mayor of Waveland and Kenmore avenues, the elder statesman among the characters who give it character. The Chicago Cubs this weekend celebrated their 150th anniversary as a National League member. They've spent 110 of those years at Wrigley, where the corner just beyond left field remains old-school, a small throwback in the middle of ever-expanding change.
The Cubs have bought up many of the nearby buildings. The rooftops are a little less organically charming and a lot more expensive. Trendy bars and restaurants have moved in all over. Even Wrigley's iconic marquee comes with a corporate sponsor, and has for more than a decade.
The corner, though, remains the corner. Lawn chairs. Lifers. Good banter, some of which is even suitable for children. The most prominent ad there is handwritten, for the Gatorade that Dave Davison sells out of a cooler: $3 for Cubs fans and $4 for Cards fans, with the $5 for White Sox fans crossed out and replaced with "stay thirsty."

#wrigley #fans

Before impressing at Texas and becoming one of the NFL's best running backs, Atlanta Falcons superstar Bijan Robinson became one of the greatest high school athletes the state of Arizona has ever seen.
Robinson set an Arizona state record at Salpointe Catholic, rushing for 7,036 yards and scoring 114 total touchdowns during his time as a Lancer. On Thursday, the school announced that Robinson's No. 5 jersey will soon be retired:
"We're thrilled to announce that Salpointe will honor Bijan Robinson '20 by retiring his iconic No. 5 football jersey at our next school **** embly," the school announced via Instagram. "Even more exciting, Bijan will be joining us on campus for this special celebration! We can't wait to welcome him back to Salpointe and honor the incredible legacy he's created both on and off the field. Congratulations, Bijan. Once a Lancer, always a Lancer."
Robinson rushed for over 2,000 yards in each of his final three seasons. Earning Gatorade Arizona Player of the Year honors during his senior year, the class of 2020 standout rushed for 2,235 yards and 38 touchdowns while also hauling in 12 passes for 314 yards and three more scores. He averaged over 17 yards per carry that year and averaged more than 13 YPC across his 46-game career with the Lancers.
The 5-foot-11, 215-pounder was no under-the-radar recruit, either. He finished as the No. 16 overall prospect and No. 2 running back in the 2020 cycle, according to the Rivals Industry Ranking, a weighted average that utilizes all major recruiting media companies.

#salpointe #year #running

When the Tennessee **** ans took the practice field on Aug. 15 just a shade before 2:30 p.m., the AccuWeather "RealFeel" was 110 degrees and the heat index was a much-milder 104 in Nashville. So let's start off **** ans observations by highlighting the real heroes of the day: the hydration squad.
By The Tennessean's count, the **** ans had at least a dozen water runners on the field at all times. After practice, one of the staffers estimated for The Tennessean that they went through the equivalent of 20-30 bags of ice to make everything work. This is part of an **** embly-line process wherein the water runners bring caddies of four-to-six squeeze-top water bottles over to a golf cart with three multi-gallon coolers filled with ice water and a big green ladle. Some of the squeeze bottles are marked off with tape or elastic wristbands to signify they're the ones to be spiked with electrolyte powders and packets from companies like LMNT (specifically the raspberry flavor) and DripDrop. The cart is also stocked with dozens of fresh towels and mini bottles of Gatorade on ice to be used as needed.
During the 10 minutes of the opening team period alone, staffers refilled 29 water bottles.
The all-hands-on-deck mentality was evident. One staffer joking asked media in the middle of practice to hop over the ropes and help "water the players." The **** ans even took a 10-minute halftime in practice so players could go into the cold room and cool off.
"You acclimate yourself to this weather," coach Robert Saleh said. "The first couple of weeks of September you don't know what the heck you're going to get. It could be 93 degrees with 90% humidity or it could be a cool fall day in the upper Midwest. You just don't know."

#took #degrees #staffers

When the Tennessee ******* ans took the practice field on Aug. 15 just a shade before 2:30 p.m., the AccuWeather "RealFeel" was 110 degrees and the heat index was a much-milder 104 in Nashville. So let's start off ******* ans observations by highlighting the real heroes of the day: the hydration squad.
By The Tennessean's count, the ******* ans had at least a dozen water runners on the field at all times. After practice, one of the staffers estimated for The Tennessean that they went through the equivalent of 20-30 bags of ice to make everything work. This is part of an ******* embly-line process wherein the water runners bring caddies of four-to-six squeeze-top water bottles over to a golf cart with three multi-gallon coolers filled with ice water and a big green ladle. Some of the squeeze bottles are marked off with tape or elastic wristbands to signify they're the ones to be spiked with electrolyte powders and packets from companies like LMNT (specifically the raspberry flavor) and DripDrop. The cart is also stocked with dozens of fresh towels and mini bottles of Gatorade on ice to be used as needed.
During the 10 minutes of the opening team period alone, staffers refilled 29 water bottles.
The all-hands-on-deck mentality was evident. One staffer joking asked media in the middle of practice to hop over the ropes and help "water the players." The ******* ans even took a 10-minute halftime in practice so players could go into the cold room and cool off.
"You acclimate yourself to this weather," coach Robert Saleh said. "The first couple of weeks of September you don't know what the heck you're going to get. It could be 93 degrees with 90% humidity or it could be a cool fall day in the upper Midwest. You just don't know."

#water #Titans

For the second time this season, the Upshot League is sending a player to the WNBA.
The Dallas Wings announced on Friday, Aug. 14, that they had signed Christyn Williams to a developmental contract. Williams, who played her college ball at UConn, joins Indiana Fever forward Michelle Onyiah as players to make the jump from the Upshot to the WNBA.
Williams played at UConn from 2018 through 2022 and starred alongside Paige Bueckers in the backcourt for her final two seasons with the Huskies, going to the Final Four in both of those seasons. She also played one year with Azzi Fudd, and Williams will now reunite with both former Huskies teammates in Dallas.
Before going to college at UConn, the Arkansas native was the consensus National Player of the Year in high school, earning the nod from Gatorade, the WBCA, the committees that give out the Naismith and Morgan Wootten awards, and USA TODAY. Williams was also the MVP of the 2018 McDonald's All-American game.

#williams #played #year

PepsiCo (NASDAQ:PEP) has spent close to a year going nowhere while the broader market climbed steadily, and shares recently traded near a 52-week low even after the company posted higher revenue and earnings. That gap between decent headline numbers and a beaten-down stock price is the whole story right now. Investors are trying to figure out whether a business that looks strong overseas and stuck at home is worth paying up for, all while collecting one of the most dependable dividends around.
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Outside the United States, PepsiCo's business is humming. International beverage volume climbed 5% last quarter and revenue jumped 11%, or 9% once currency swings are stripped out, and none of that came from acquisitions since those deals were concentrated on U.S. brands. Snacks told a similar story abroad, with Asia Pacific revenue up 15% and Latin America up 12%. That geographic spread matters because it's cushioning a domestic business that isn't pulling its weight. On top of that, volume is finally moving in the right direction everywhere: PepsiCo posted its fastest volume sales growth since 2022, and global organic sales volume through the first half of fiscal 2026 was the highest in four years, a sign that recent price cuts aimed at cost-conscious shoppers are working rather than just squeezing margins.
The stock's price tag adds to the case. Shares trade around 16 times forward earnings, a discount to its five-year median near 22. Layer on a dividend that's been raised for 54 straight years, with the payout still covered by adjusted earnings. Management is "restaging" four core brands, Lay's, Tostitos, Gatorade, and Quaker, with new packaging, marketing, and ingredients, while rolling out products like protein chips and probiotic drinks. Activist investor Elliott Investment Management has also been in the mix, pushing the company to move faster on growth and cost cuts.
The trouble is that PepsiCo's biggest market is still shrinking in the ways that matter. North American food sales fell 2% last quarter, and beverage volume in that region dropped 4% even as reported beverage revenue ticked up. Management pointed to higher gas prices as one culprit, arguing that pricier fill-ups are cutting into convenience store traffic, a channel where impulse buys of chips and soda matter a lot. Strip out acquisitions, and organic growth in North American beverages was just 1%.

#beverage #Growth

Saquon Barkley saw a clip of Barry Sanders on NFL Films when he was a kid that left a lasting impression.
It wasn't Sanders juking half the defense on one of his dynamic touchdown runs. Instead, the Hall of Fame running back who inspired a generation of running backs with his sensational, elusive, shifty style was walking up and down the sideline handing out refreshments to his teammates.
"They were talking about how great of a player he was but they had a clip of him holding Gatorade cups and he's walking down," Barkley said on the AP's "On Football" podcast. "He is going to his teammates and just the way that he carried himself. So I would say I have to give my flowers to him there."
Barkley joined Sanders as one of nine players to rush for 2,000 yards in a season in 2024 when he was the AP NFL Offensive Player of the Year and helped the Philadelphia Eagles win the Super Bowl.
Barkley demonstrated he's a team-first player by sitting out the final regular-season game when he needed 101 yards to break Eric **** erson's record. Earlier in the season, he told coach Nick Sirianni to let other backs get some carries after he had already rushed for 176 yards against his former Giants teammates and needed 14 more in the fourth quarter to set a new career-high.

#barkley #player

The Detroit Tigers traded former No. 1 overall pick and 2025 MLB All-Star Casey Mize to the San Diego Padres at the trade deadline buzzer on Monday, Aug. 3.
So what did the Tigers get back? Two prospects, highlighted by former first-round pick Kash Mayfield, the organization's No. 2 prospect, as well as left-handed pitcher Jackson Wolf. Infielder Gage Workman was also sent to the Padres.
Mayfield, a first-round pick by the Padres in 2024, put up a 3.24 ERA over 114 innings over his two professional seasons in Low-A Lake Elsinore (2025) and High-A Fort Wayne (2026).
Mayfield is a 6-foot-4, 200 pound lefty who won the Gatorade Oklahoma Player of the Year award in both 2023 and 2024.
His fastball sits in the mid-90s, and while he has walked a lot of batters so far in the minors (3.9/nine innings), he also showed a 13.1 K/9 rate in 19 starts in 2025.

#mayfield #pick

While it'll still be some time until Raynham's Brody ***** ila takes the mound for the Texas Rangers or any of its affiliates, you can already test the 6-foot-9 southpaw's skills against the MLB's best in the virtual realm.
The former Bishop Feehan ace, 2025-26 MaxPreps Male National Athlete of the Year and 2025-26 Gatorade Massachusetts Baseball Player of the Year, who was selected in the third round (89th overall) by the Rangers in the 2026 MLB Draft, is already a usable player in MLB The Show 26's Diamond Dynasty mode.
Bumila is one of 34 MLB prospects added to the game as part of its draft card series, which dropped on the game on July 11. The left-handed pitcher can be pulled in one of the 2026 MLB Draft virtual card packs in Diamond Dynasty mode, in which players can build teams by collecting player cards of active and former players to face off against other players' custom-built teams or the computer in a variety of game modes from full games to situations to tournaments and mini seasons.
The former University of Texas commit is joined by fellow Rangers draft pick and LHP Gio Rojas in the card series, who was introduced along ***** ila and second round pick Connor Comeau during a press conference on Tuesday, July 21.
Bumila comes in rated as a 96 overall. He has a maximum value of 99 in both velocity and break as well as a 90 in arm strength, 95 in durability and 78 in control.

#texas

Raynham's Brody ****** ila is officially a member of the Texas Rangers organization.
On Tuesday, July 21, the Rangers officially unveiled the 6-foot-9 southpaw, along with first round pick and fellow left handed pitcher Gio Rojas and second round pick and shortstop Connor Comeau, during an introductory press conference at the team's facility in Arlington, TX.
"We could not be more excited about the talent and the character of this group right here," Rangers President of Baseball Operations Chris Young said of the trio during the press conference. "We believe that they're going to be the next leaders within our organization (to) help us in our quest towards our next World Series championship."
The Rangers selected ****** ila, who was named both the 2025-26 MaxPreps Male National Athlete of the Year and 2025-26 Gatorade Massachusetts Baseball Player of the Year last month, 89th overall in the third round of the 2026 MLB Draft on July 11. According to MLB Pipeline's Jim Callis via X, the former Bishop Feehan ace and 2025-26 MIAA Division 1 basketball champion signed with the team for $2.75 million, nearly $2 million higher than the $900,800 expected for an 89th overall pick.
"I’ve been wanting to be a professional baseball player for my entire life," ****** ila said. "Hearing my name called, especially by an organization that does so well and in my position and circumstance right now knows that I’m probably going to recover the best here, it just means so much to me."

#rangers #pick #year

Raynham's Brody ***** ila is Texas bound.
On Saturday, July 11, the former Bishop Feehan ace, 2025-26 MaxPreps Male National Athlete of the Year and 2025-26 Gatorade Massachusetts Baseball Player of the Year was selected 89th overall by the Texas Rangers in the 2026 MLB Draft at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
The 6-foot-9 southpaw, who made national headlines and attracted hordes of MLB scouts all spring with a fastball that regularly topped triple digits, went 5-0, giving up nine runs (seven earned) on eight hits and 14 walks while striking out 96 (including a Feehan record 20 batters on senior night in his lone complete game) in 44⅓ innings of work while working on a pitch and inning limit, leading the Shamrocks to an appearance in the MIAA Division 1 final.
If he signs, it could be some time before ***** ila takes the mound for any of the Rangers' affiliates. As on Monday, July 6, he shared an MRI with MLB teams that showed he had suffered another injury to his UCL in his left throwing arm, which he previously had internal brace surgery on in 2025. If it requires surgery, ***** ila could be sidelined for over a year.
Still, the 18-year-old's clear talent and potential was enough to convince the Rangers to take a chance on him, who will now look to work with ***** ila to prepare for his return to the mound and a chance at his lifelong dream of pitching in the majors.

Washington Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels won the Heisman Trophy in 2023, yet he still wasn't the No. 1 overall draft pick in his class. That honor belongs to Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams. However, it's no secret that Daniels has seen more success than Williams. Daniels was the Offensive Rookie of the Year in 2024 and was selected to the Pro Bowl as a rookie.
Now, Daniels has joined the Gatorade athletics team.

Indian Hill two-sport star Devlan Daniel has been invited to the USA Baseball 18U National Team training camp, to be held July 16-20 in Cary, North Carolina.
Should Daniel make the team, he will compete in the 18U Pan-American Championship, which will be played Oct. 22-29 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Daniel, a Mississippi State commit, was named to the 2026 All-Ohio Division IV first team and the Ohio Gatorade Player of the Year after hitting .436 with five doubles, five triples, four home runs, 20 runs batted in and 35 runs scored. Indian Hill went 21-5 this past spring and finished as district runner-up. He is a two-time Cincinnati Hills League Player of the Year and led the Braves to the 2025 state tournament, their first appearance since 1993.
On the football field, Daniel has led the Braves to a 22-5 record over the last two seasons and an appearance in the 2025 Division IV state semifinals. As a sophomore, he ran for a school record 2,260 yards and 34 touchdowns while recording 42 tackles and two interceptions on defense. After switching to quarterback as a junior, he threw for 1,192 yards and ran for 1,116 yards and accounted for 34 total touchdowns.
This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Indian Hill's Devlan Daniel selected for USA Baseball 18U National team trials

As we prepare to present our Providence Journal All-State teams for the spring season, we're going to to look back at the winter high school sports season, and highlight our high school Players of the Year for those sports.
There are the the winners that our staff selected in each sport and presented awards to at our June 18 All-State Awards Show held at The Providence Performing Arts Center, featuring URI wide receiver Marquis Buchanan.
We did our part, and now we're asking for your help. We're asking you to select the Longplex athlete of the season, for each of the three seasons on the high school sports calendar. Last week, we highlighted the fall players of the year - and North Kingstown volleyball star Kayleigh Garrepy won that poll. Now, we want to hear from you about the Longplex Athlete of the Winter. Below are the Players of the Year for each of the winter sports. Tell us who you would choose as the Longplex Athlete of the Winter.
Remember, only votes in the online poll at the end of this article will be accepted. No phone or email votes will be counted.
There wasn’t a more respected – or feared – player in Rhode Island than Bousquet, who wrapped up her career with the Quakers with her fourth All-State nod and third appearance on the All-State team. With Bousquet on the court, Moses Brown was a ***** le contender, reaching the Division I final and falling in a nailbiter against eventual champ Barrington in the state tournament. This season Bousquet scored her 2,000th career point, averaged over 27 points per game and earned Gatorade Player of the Year. She’ll continue her career at Marist University.

On June 26, we released the ninth installment of top-10 reader polls asking who you consider the best high school volleyball athlete in Wisconsin history. Now that the results are in, here's how people voted:
Brooke Mosher of Waterloo finished as the reader's choice for the best volleyball athlete in state history, topping the poll of elites with 130 votes.
One of the top setters in the history of the state, Mosher has made her presence felt on the national stage.
She smashed the ace to help the University of Pittsburgh earn its fifth consecutive Final Four appearance, and also appeared in the Major League Volleyball finals with the Omaha Supernovas.
During her high school tenure, Mosher was named the 2020–21 Wisconsin Gatorade Player of the Year as a senior after leading Waterloo to the Division 3 state ***** le match, among two state tournament appearances.

Jun. 29—Following a dominant high school senior season, Wrangell's Boomchain Loucks on Friday became the first athlete in program history to be named Alaska Gatorade Player of the Year for boys track and field.
"I've had the pleasure of getting to know this young man for the last couple years," Sitka head coach Jeremy Strong said in a statement. "He's a great kid with a good heart. He seems to make connections wherever he goes. He trains in a town without a track oval and often without any training partners. He is process and goal-driven. His times and accomplishments speak for themselves. I can't think of another athlete who has experienced his level of individual success this year."
Loucks completed the middle-distance and distance triple crown at the Division II state championship meet by winning the 800-, 1,600- and 3,200-meter races. He set a new personal best in the 800 with a time of 1:57.16, and cruised to a victory in the 1,600 with a mark of 4:19.55. His first-place time in the 3,200 of 9:37.24 nearly matched his season- and personal-best time of 9:31.78 from the Region V championships. He also ran Alaska's fastest 1,600 time of 2026, 4:18.62 at the Liberty Twilight meet.
This award also recognizes athletes for their academic rigor and exemplary character off the track. Loucks maintained a 3.74 GPA and volunteered locally with community clean-up days and with Tech Savvy Senior, a group that provides technology **** istance to elderly community members. He will compete in both track and field and cross-country for Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington.
Fairbanks' Landon Hafele on Saturday became the latest Alaska-born hockey player to be selected in the annual NHL Draft when he was taken in the sixth round at 167th overall by the Winnipeg Jets.

Athletes of the highest levels have started from the grounds of Wyoming.
An Olympic gold medalist. NBA and NFL players. High school athletes who have received national recognition, broken records, and won more Gatorade Player of the Year awards than years spent in high school. High school athletes who went on to become country stars.
Who is the all-time greatest Wyoming high school athlete?
As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, USA TODAY is launching its 250 for 250 series, looking to answer that question by celebrating the best athletes from each state.
From fans' votes, five athletes will be selected to represent the state as legends who have defined high school sports.

MADISON – As Wisconsin men's basketball hosted several prospects at its annual advanced camp, one of the Badgers' camp coaches had a different perspective from what he previously experienced at the Kohl Center.
"I know that I was in their shoes," Matthew Mors said, referring to the camp attendees. "But to be on the flip side of it is just kind of surreal."
Mors really had been in their shoes.
Wisconsin's Joe Krabbenhoft recruited the three-time South Dakota Gatorade Boys Player of the Year to the Badgers. A homesick Mors redshirted his first year and subsequently transferred to South Dakota State, but it set up a unique reunion nonetheless.
"When I committed here in high school, I knew that this place was a special place," Mors said, standing on the Kohl Center's Ab Nicholas Court. "The coaching staff, facilities, everything about this place has always been elite."

MADISON – As Wisconsin men's basketball hosted several prospects at its annual advanced camp, one of the Badgers' camp coaches had a different perspective from what he previously experienced at the Kohl Center.
"I know that I was in their shoes," Matthew Mors said, referring to the camp attendees. "But to be on the flip side of it is just kind of surreal."
Mors really had been in their shoes.
Wisconsin's Joe Krabbenhoft recruited the three-time South Dakota Gatorade Boys Player of the Year to the Badgers. A homesick Mors redshirted his first year and subsequently transferred to South Dakota State, but it set up a unique reunion nonetheless.
"When I committed here in high school, I knew that this place was a special place," Mors said, standing on the Kohl Center's Ab Nicholas Court. "The coaching staff, facilities, everything about this place has always been elite."

Jayla Blue of Bearden was named the Gatorade Tennessee Girls Soccer Player of the Year.
Blue, who has signed with Tennessee, repeated as Knox News' PrepXtra Girls Soccer Player of the Year after leading Bearden to a 20-2-1 record and its fourth Class 3A TSSAA state championship in the past five years. She scored 33 goals in the 2025 season and added 17 ****** ists.
Blue holds the Bearden school record with 135 career goals scored. She was a four-time All-State selection and the 2025 United Soccer Coaches State Player of the Year.
"Jayla was fantastic," West coach Roberto Castro said in a news release. "She is truly a game-changer on the field. We played them three times and every time she was the difference-maker."
Blue maintained a 3.44 GPA and volunteered her time in the Bradley's Gift and Home kitchen and other community service projects through her church.

Saltillo's Lynley McCarley has been selected as the Gatorade Mississippi Girls Soccer Player of the Year for the 2025-26 season, Gatorade announced on June 18.
The 5-foot-8 senior goalkeeper led the Tigers to a 24-4 record this season and a fourth straight MHSAA Class 6A state championship, with a 2-0 win over Long Beach. McCarley earned MVP honors in the **** le game.
McCarley was credited with 22 shutout performances this year and also scored five goals. She allowed only five goals all season. McCarley led a Saltillo team that outscored its opponents 146-8 this past season.
“Lynley was so impactful for her team," DeSoto Central soccer coach Josh Metzger said in a release. "She’s simply a quality keeper.”
McCarley is an Arkansas State soccer signee. The senior tallied a career total of 66 clean sheets during her time at Saltillo.

After a sensational junior season at Warren Township High School in Gurnee, Ill., that saw him secure his second consecutive Illinois Mr. Basketball and Illinois Gatorade Player of the Year Awards, Iowa basketball's coveted 2027 four-star target Jaxson Davis announced he will be transferring to a prep school for his senior year.
Davis announced that he is transferring to the newly-formed Monarch Academy in Kansas City, Kan., in Nike’s EYBL Scholastic League
“It is with great excitement, yet mixed emotions, that I announce my commitment to spend my senior year at Monarch Academy,” Davis wrote in his announcement. “My goal has always been to challenge myself, continue growing and become the best player I can be, and after careful consideration, I believe the opportunity to compete on the EYBL circuit will provide the highest level of competition and best prepare me for the transition from high school basketball to the high-major collegiate level.”
The 6-foot-1, 165-pound point guard is now ranked as the No. 42 player overall, as the No. 11 point guard, and as the top player in Kansas, per 247Sports.
In his junior year, Davis averaged 23.8 points, 5.3 rebounds, 5.3 ****** ists and 3.5 steals for the Blue Devils (30-4), who eventually lost in the Illinois High School ****** ociation (IHSA) Class 4A sectional semifinals this year after advancing to the state championship game in 2025.

For a second consecutive postseason, Calvary pitcher and Georgia softball signee Kynzee Anderson has been selected the 2026 Gatorade Louisiana Softball Player of the Year.
Anderson, who was recently selected the Outstanding Player on the LSWA Class 2A All-State team, led Calvary to a sixth consecutive ******* le in May. Here 2026 record was 30-1, and she posted a 0.61 ERA with 318 strikeouts in 171 innings. Anderson has also been named LSWA Miss Softball (2025) and Shreveport Times Pitcher of the Year.
“A well-deserved award,” Calvary coach Tiffany Wood said. “Being able to get one of the highest high school awards two years in a row is just a testament to what kind of player and person Kynzee is.”
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