High School Sports
DaRon Dunbar Signs with Augusta Men's Basketball for 2025
Dip Metress announced the signing of guard DaRon Dunbar to the 2025-26 roster. Name: DaRon Dunbar Position: Guard Height: 6’4″ Weight: 200 lbs Hometown / Previous Team: North Augusta, S.C. / North Augusta High School “I remember the first time I saw DaRon play his sophomore year and we have watched him evolve since then,” […]
Dip Metress announced the signing of guard DaRon Dunbar to the 2025-26 roster.
Name: DaRon Dunbar
Position: Guard
Height: 6’4″
Weight: 200 lbs
Hometown / Previous Team: North Augusta, S.C. / North Augusta High School
“I remember the first time I saw DaRon play his sophomore year and we have watched him evolve since then,” said Metress. “He played at a great high school program at North Augusta HS and has a very efficient offensive game. We look forward to him improving in all areas and we think his best basketball is on the horizon.”
Dunbar averaged 18.9 points, 8 rebounds, and 2 assists per game during his senior season at North Augusta High School.
He will join transfer Ryan Conway, who brings additional experience to Augusta basketball, and freshman Daniel Daramola in the Jaguars’ 2025-26 signing class.
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Jefferson High School bowling team wins championship, highlights value of all students
Stacked in individual lanes, a bowling alley is the perfect example of a friendly competition. Everyone takes turns, trying to knock down every pin before the person after them does. Bowling is typically an independent sport, but at Lafayette Jefferson High School, it is all about team collaboration, working together to get the highest scores […]
Stacked in individual lanes, a bowling alley is the perfect example of a friendly competition. Everyone takes turns, trying to knock down every pin before the person after them does.
Bowling is typically an independent sport, but at Lafayette Jefferson High School, it is all about team collaboration, working together to get the highest scores and including everybody in the process.
JHS is one of seven ‘Unified Champions Schools’ in Indiana. To receive this national banner recognition, the school is expected to be dedicated to creating an inclusive and integrative environment.
Specifically, the school implements sports and club activities called ‘Special Olympic Unified Sports’, where individuals with and without disabilities work together and compete as a team.
At JHS, students can participate in unified sports, like bowling, through a partnership with the student-run Best Buddies Program, which fosters inclusion by pairing students with and without disabilities in these sports.
Last year was the team’s first time bowling in the state finals. To the team and coach Kristen Van Laere’s surprise, they “landed third place in the championship,”
Members of the Jefferson High School bowling team take a photo together at a competition.
Van Laere said this year they had the same attitude towards the sport, which was to have fun and do their best.
“I’ll never forget what it was like, going into the last set and the guy (from Unified Sports) said 54. I don’t know what that means” Van Laere said. “He says (in that moment) you’re 54 pins up, (which is) first place out of all of the schools. It was hysterical, but now (I knew) we are playing to win.”
“You know, (it’s) kind of like the (Purdue) basketball tournament that just got done. You knew going in, (that) Purdue was going to win certain games and they were expected to.,” Van Laere said. “I never had an expectation (about) this – I think that’s what makes it fun.”
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