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hen it comes to coaching lacrosse, Mountain Ridge High School’s Trent Bangert has more concerns than just on-field play.

In fact, when he took the head coaching job at Mountain Ridge, Bangert said he liked the prospect of building a culture from the ground up at a school that opened in 2019. This was appealing because he sees himself as a culture coach.

“Winning games is great, but I want to send these players off with life lessons and try to create leaders in every one of these young men,” he said.

Bangert is using four pillars in crafting that culture: teamwork, keeping things simple, prioritizing and executing, and distributed leadership.

While the culture is important, Bangert said the young men on his team mesh well with the culture.

“I’ve got a really good group of boys, and I’ve coached these boys for a few years at other programs, and they are really a brotherhood,” he said.

“They respect the game, and they respect everything. We try to build trust amongst the teammates, the players, the coaches and try to make it more a Mountain Ridge junior Colby Roberts (in red) helps Alta junior Ian Bushell (in white) off the field during a 13-7 win over Alta on March 25. (Photo courtesy of Mountain Ridge High School athletics.)

family.”

That family environment fosters a lot. Senior Dallin Tanner said since everyone treats each other with respect, it makes the players want to pay it forward.

“We don’t want to have that reputation as a sports program to be the jerky team,” he said. “We just want to build up the school more than tear it down.”

Mountain Ridge recently traveled to Alta High School for what would turn out to be a highly competitive match. In an email relaying the story, MRHS assistant softball coach Callie Fielding, who attended, said the match was physical and the referees were letting a lot go.

At one point, Alta junior Ian Bushell injured his knee and tried to hobble off the field while the game was still in motion. Mountain Ridge junior Colby Roberts noticed Bushell’s struggle and immediately went to help.

In Fielding’s recount, she said it seemed Bushell fell into Roberts’s arms and looked “so thankful someone came to help him.”

The efforts don’t stop there. Bangert recalled a time when a recent snowstorm hit the area earlier this school year and his players were helping push cars out that were stuck.

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Local teen’s volunteer efforts have grown into a worldwide endeavor

By Julia Partain | j.partain@mycityjournals.com

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erving others is not just a pastime for 15-year-old Adreana Hall; it’s a passion. The ninth grader from Herriman’s charter school Providence Hall High School has made volunteering a priority, both locally and globally.

In 2015, Adreana participated in a fundraiser for Primary Children’s Hospital. The 10-year-old collected enough items, including coloring books, crayons, stuffed animals and toys, and stuffed over 75 backpacks to donate to the sick children at the hospital.

“Her enthusiasm for helping others really took off during this project,” said Trina Hall, Adreana’s mom. “She loved collecting the supplies knowing that they were going to bring smiles to so many faces.”

Adreana’s volunteer efforts are also a family affair. In June 2016, the Hall family took a trip across the world to Papua New Guinea to help a school in need of basic supplies.

This was not a random destination or school that they chose. Her father, Jordan, was born there and still had family living there. His brother is a school headmaster in the Milne Bay Province. The school, which enrolls up to 215 students, was in desperate need of school supplies, a laptop computer and internet access. It lacked standard reference and story books and other teaching and learning materials. They had a student to text book ratio of 1:4.

The Halls got busy fundraising for this journey and ended up receiving over $1,500 in donations. When the family of five arrived in New Guinea, it presented basketballs, toys, school supplies, the laptop and other much-needed items to the school.

“This was a really good experience for me,” Adreana said. “It affected me in such a positive way that it made me want to keep finding ways to help others.”

In a time when teenagers are occupied with education, social media, sports, extra-curricular activities and social obligations, many youth can fall into the excuse trap of, “I don’t have time to volunteer.” Volunteering is important to a kids’ well-being and maturity just as much as their other activities. It teaches them empathy, develops life and emotional skills and increases self-esteem. Sounds like a pretty good return on investment.

Adreana doesn’t give that response. When she is not studying for her AP and honors classes, hanging out with friends or playing basketball, Adreana can be found volun-

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Ten-year-old Adreana Hall collects toys and books for Primary Children’s Hospital. (Photo courtesy of Trina Hall.)

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“I was accepted into a wonderful program called Youthlinc last year,” she said. “With Youthlinc, I will have the opportunity to visit a small village in Thailand in summer 2022 and have many wonderful opportunities to serve that community and learn from everyone who lives there.”

She isn’t doing this alone. Once again, family is involved, and Trina hopes to go on the service adventure with Adreana.

“In order to travel to Thailand, I will need to spend 50 hours serving my community,” Adreana said. “Thirty hours must be done with a community organization, and 20 hours can be on your own.”

The majority of the service mission will be spent in the village. Days will be spent helping with construction, participating in community health fairs, providing educational lessons and leading vocational training.

The mother–daughter duo, who plan on teaching English lessons while in Thailand, have been logging hours at the Taylorsville Food Pantry since last November. Together, they regularly assist the pantry with donations and passing out food. This last year has taken a toll on many Utahns,

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With culture being so important to Bangert, seeing actions like these make him proud of his players.

“I’ve coached some teams and you do have the players that don’t buy in,” he said. “You can’t get everyone bought in. This team, out of all the teams I’ve coached, everybody’s on board.”

Part of what makes the young men on the team so receptive, offensive coordinator Taylor Brundage said, is the team is full of go-getters.

“We’re not really singling out anybody as a main leader,” he said. “They all take care of their stuff, and they motivate everyone else.”

As for why these student-athletes thrive and embrace what the coaching staff is trying to implement, Bangert said he’s still stumped.

He said he knows they’ve been together for a long time and have a lot of trust in each other. He hopes he’s had an impact on them to help them buy in, but all he knows for sure is it appears easy for them.

“Anything you ask for, they do,” Bangert said. “If they do make a mistake here or there, it’s corrected, they apologize, they hold each other accountable.

It’s just a great environment right now.”

That environment has not only spawned a group of kids willing to serve

at a moment’s notice but that is having success on the field. The Sentinels started the season off with a 7-1 overall record.

Tanner credits a lot of the early success to that brotherhood and culture the coaches helped establish. He also said there is a lot of trust among the players, which makes it easier to play in sync.

“It’s a team sport for a reason, right?” he said. “You need every position, and I think everyone is comfortable with each other in those positions, and everyone is comfortable with each other as a player.”

But Tanner said the credit doesn’t only sit with the players. He pointed to the coaching staff for helping foster such a good environment that allows this team to flourish.

Bangert isn’t only focused on this season. He’s got an eye for the future, recognizing this team has laid a foundation for where this young school goes in terms of culture and philosophy.

So far, Bangert says he likes the trajectory.

“With this team and how they’re completely bought in and the season we’re having and are going to continue to have, I think, is going to make the buyin that much easier for the younger kids when they’re coming up,” he said. l

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Discovering Herriman, one trail at a time

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t’s that time of year when Utah is buzzing with outdoor enthusiasts enjoying Mother Nature’s playground.

Trails across the valley are peppered with hikers, bikers and runners itching for fresh air, exercise and a break from the grind. Since the cancellation of 2020 races, athletes are more than ready to compete again. Nobody knows this more than Blake Christensen, owner of RunGr8 Running Center and race director for the Herriman Trail Series.

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“I wanted a way to share our passion and enthusiasm for trail running and give attention to the trails,” Christensen said. “That is when the Herriman Trail Series was created.”

This series is built on newly created trails and has three distances: 5k, 10k and half-marathon. All three courses offer beautiful scenery and views of the Salt Lake Valley and are designed to accommodate all abilities of runners from the beginner to the more experienced trail runner. It is also one of the few trail race series in the west side of the valley. Each race starts at Blackridge Reservoir and takes runners on the trails above Herriman.

“The 5k is a great introduction to trail running,” Christensen said “From there, the races build on each other. Spread out throughout the summer, it gives participants the opportunity to train for each race if they wanted. It really gives people a great stepping stone.”

City leaders appreciate and recognize the positive impact that the trail committee and race series brings to the community.

“It is a pleasure to host the Herriman Trail Series,” Herriman City Events and Recreation Manager Dayton Martindale said. “This series is a great staple for our community, and we are thankful for Blake Christensen and RunGr8 for their time and effort to provide these runs.”

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How Herriman City is preparing for Olympia Hills

By Justin Adams | justin.a@thecityjournals.com

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ith the Salt Lake County Council’s approval of the Olympia Hills development last year, 6,330 new residential units will be added to the southwest part of the valley over the next several years.

The Herriman City Council is preparing now for how that will impact the city.

One of the main concerns is how adding that many more homes will impact roads in Herriman. As commuters from the future development make their way to Mountain View Corridor or Bangerter Highway, they’ll be traveling along roads like 11800 South, Herriman Boulevard and Herriman Main Street. Not only will that likely require some new road construction and expansion in places but will also increase road maintenance costs for the city. The question for the Herriman City Council is, how should it pay for these infrastructure costs?

One option would be to annex the Olympia Hills development into the city. Currently, the land is part of unincorporated Salt Lake County, which is why the issue was before the county council, not Herriman City, that paved the path for its creation. But now that the development is being built one way or another, it may be advantageous for the city to incorporate it into its boundaries. Among other reasons, city leaders would be able to charge impact fees to the developer in order to fund these necessary infrastructure improvements.

During its April 14 meeting, City Attorney Chase Andrizzi briefed the city council about the annexation process. An ensuing discussion among the city council members made clear that while they are open to that direction, it’s certainly not a done deal.

Relatively quiet roads, like this stretch of Herriman Boulevard, will someday become major thoroughfares once Olympia Hills is developed. (Justin Adams/City Journals)

“There’s a lot of things that have to be considered on both sides before it can even be realistically considered as a possibility,” said Councilman Steven Shields.

“There were a lot of strong feelings when [Olympia Hills] was presented to the county,” Councilman Clint Smith said. “I want to let the developer know that I’m at least appreciative that he’s open to having these conversations. Our goal as a council should be how we move the city forward in the best way possible. That may be with or

without this development in the city.”

Another potential option for city officials is to transfer ownership of some of its roads to the state. Many of the larger roads in the valley that stretch across multiple municipalities are considered regional roads and are consequently owned and maintained by the Utah Department of Transportation. Currently, the only such road in Herriman is Mountain View Corridor. But the creation of such a large development to the west of the city could lead to a few of the city’s east–west corridors joining that designation.

To begin a dialogue with the state about that possibility, the council drafted a letter to UDOT, which was discussed during the same meeting.

“The best process is for these roads that are truly regional roads such as 12600 and 11800, all of these regional roads is to transfer that jurisdiction and ownership to the Department of Transportation so they can become state roads and have them maintain them,” Mayor David Watts said.

One concern Smith raised was whether ceding these roads to the state might have unintended consequences.

“Are we going to hurt ourselves in the long run by not having control when improvements happen?” he asked.

Similar to the question of annexation, the general consensus of the council was that they don’t have enough information right now to definitively advocate for one direction or another but are eager to open up a discussion with UDOT representatives.l

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School field trips reach farther this year

By Jet Burnham | j.burnham@mycityjournals.com

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or the first time ever, Silvercrest Elementary fourth graders went on a field trip to Bryce Canyon National Park. There were no issues with transportation, parent volunteers or forgotten sack lunches, because it was a virtual field trip.

“Virtual field trips are the upside of pandemic learning,” fourth grade teacher Jami Berry said. “I have been able to incorporate more field trips this year than ever before, and I've been able to ‘take’ my students to places we could never go on a normal field trip. They got to experience Bryce Canyon with a National Park ranger standing at the edge of the amphitheater, using his cell phone to show them the hoodoos and talking about how they formed. It was incredible.”

Students were able to interact with and ask questions to a park ranger as he gave a demonstration on fossils and showed examples of the effects of weathering and erosion on the landscape, concepts they were learning in their geology unit.

Kristin Brown, another fourth grade teacher, said normally, she would read the geology standards materials and then present it to the class. But with the virtual field trip, students were taught directly by an expert in the field.

“This is straight from a park ranger that's live there,” she said.

Normally, teachers are limited to one field trip per year because of the cost and the disruption to the entire school day. Virtual field trips are free and can be scheduled during a specific class period.

“Once I realized that different places were offering virtual field trips, I started searching online to see who was offering them, because I wanted to take advantage of this unique opportunity,” Berry said.

Fourth grade students have enjoyed virtual field trips to the Bean Life Science Museum, Discovery Gateway Children's Museum, Clark Planetarium, the Utah State Capitol, Museum of

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Silvercrest second graders practice ball rhythms.(Rinda Clyde/Silvercrest Elementary)

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“Each field trip has supported our science and/or social studies standards, while also offering some fun interactive elements,” Berry said.

Virtual field trips have allowed students to have more experiences and reach farther than the budget normally does. Still, teachers are looking forward to when they are able to take students on actual field trips.

“An in-person field trip is definitely the preferable way,” Brown said. “When you get to go there, it's really more hands-on.

They get to touch the things and they get to see the things.”

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“We don't have any buses at our school,” Brown said. “So, field trips are a big deal because of the bus.”

Fourth grade students also traditionally attend a performance by the Utah Symphony, which introduces them to the arts and to concert etiquette. This year, the Utah Symphony and Opera reached out to Beverly Taylor Sorenson Arts Educators to arrange virtual meetings with individual musicians.

Silvercrest students had a Zoom experience with a bassoonist and violinist, who played their instruments, explained how they worked and told stories about the history of how their instruments were made. Silvercrest teachers, including music specialist Rinda Clyde, followed up with classroom activities that provided further exploration of the concepts the musicians had introduced.

While Clyde was disappointed the students missed out on a full symphony experience this year, she was pleased they had such a unique one-on-one interaction.

“The artist assigned was able to field individual questions from students and create a lesson specifically targeted to my curriculum needs,” Clyde said. “They were quirky, skilled, funny, and very knowledgeable about their craft.”

Clyde has had to completely revamp her music program to accommodate this year’s limitations—no singing, dancing or instruments which express air. However, she has discovered effective, easy-to-sanitize instruments—balls, hula hoops and boomwhackers—to enhance her curriculum.

“This year has made me very creative,” Clyde said. “Who knew easily sanitized playground balls could be used to improve my students’ ability to feel beat and express rhythm in place of dancing?” l

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Learning gets real in Real Academy’s sports business classes

By Jet Burnham | j.burnham@mycityjournals.com

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he Sports Business program at Real Salt Lake Academy High School is exploding with real-world learning opportunities for students, like designing a new school logo to be featured on school athletic apparel. “[The teacher] gave us the colors and the picture that he wanted us to use, but he did give us quite a bit of free range to do what we wanted with it,” ninth grader Maci Nell said. “Everybody in the class worked on our own, and then we came together and decided on one final logo. It was actually really fun. It just made me feel really good that I was able to contribute something to the school.”

Maci enjoys the assignments that have a real purpose—like designing fliers for school activities—and “not just random things that we made on the computer.”

Nicholas Bartlett, coordinator of the sports business program at RSLAHS, believes real world learning is best. He creates learning experiences for students based on his 10 years of collegiate athletics sports marketing experience.

In addition to designing the logo, his students have held sports photoshoots, designed game schedule posters and handled the school’s social media graphics and

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Students in the sports business marketing class designed this new logo, which is featured on school athleticwear. (Photo courtesy of Nicholas Bartlett.)

videos.

“When we can give kids the opportunity to take over social media and make graphics that they can see on the school social media sites, it just hits another level in education,” Bartlett said.

Bartlett also regularly uses the real world as his classroom. A recent marketing class took place at a gas station.

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A game schedule poster, created by students, is an example of the real-world learning opportunities Nick Bartlett provides in his sports business class. (Photo courtesy of Nicholas Bartlett.)

kinds of things he's selling, what things make money and what things are just there to attract people to come in,” sophomore Jonah Nuetzel said.

Next, the class will be going to the Real stadium to see firsthand how things operate on game days.

“Being able to go in and see in person what they do, and not just hearing about it or reading out of a textbook, it makes a really big difference,” Jonah said.

Sports business is one of the school’s most popular academic tracks, and RSLAHS Athletic Director Becky Hogan said Bartlett’s classes fill up fast.

“He is one of the most super-talented, engaging, dynamic, young teachers that we have at our school,” Hogan said. “He's going to absolutely explode our academic side—that sports business track is going to become so incredible. Those kids will walk out of there and walk right into a professional atmosphere and be firing on all cylinders.”

Bartlett is working to make the program more robust in the coming years, creating even more opportunities for students to have hands-on learning.

Next year, all the school’s games will be live-streamed, and sports broadcasting students will provide the play-by-play and color commentary. Bartlett plans to involve students in social media and branding, sports health, athletic training, media relations and marketing on social media and radio.

“From top to bottom, we're going to

give them different opportunities to really get involved,” Bartlett said.

Opportunities will also include internships with RSL and the Utah Jazz.

“In his short time here, Nick has made good inroads with RSL to facilitate opportunities for those kids in the sports business track to go internship with RSL and work on actual projects with the RSL professional arm of things,” Hogan said.

Health and safety restrictions this year have limited these types of opportunities, but some students will get a chance to work with RSL on some community service projects this month.

“I think that's going to teach these kids some things that they won't learn just by sitting in a classroom,” Bartlett said. “It’s real-world life application to the things that we are talking about in the classroom.”

Bartlett said the two to four years of experience students can get at RSLAHS will give them a head start on a career in collegiate and professional sports.

“If you want to break into the sports administration world at an early age and really learn some key skills that are going to help you get a job in sports, at any level, this is the place to do it,” he said.

“I don't think many schools in the country are offering this type of pathway or curriculum. And I think that's what makes RSL Academy just a really great school and a really unique place to be.”l

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What’s your legacy?

Debbie Pedersen (center) and her team dedicate their time to rescuing and reuniting pets with their owners.

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Last October, Herriman residents noticed a skittish black and white female, Akita, roaming around a field for several weeks.

Concerned residents circulated information on social media to raise awareness for this lost dog and people began leaving food and water out with hopes to catch it and find its owner. After a few weeks, Herriman Animal Services Coordinator Debbie Pedersen was contacted to help in the effort.

“We set up a dog trap in the area, with food, water and a blanket and checked it sev-

eral times throughout the day with no results,” said Pedersen. “Eventually, she finally went into the trap, which began the journey of us being able to help her.”

Pedersen works for Animal Services promoting responsible pet ownership through education and enforcement. Staff members are dedicated to no-kill principles, recognizing every animal is an individual with a life worth saving. Pedersen said this pup was definitely worth saving.

Lucky, her new name, was understandably scared.

“We worked with her for several weeks, and slowly she came out of her shell, although she was still nervous,” Pedersen said. “The

After weeks of wandering in a field, Lucky is finally caught and brought to Animal Services. (Photo courtesy of Debbie Pedersen.)

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transformation was incredible! It shows what can happen with a little love and time.”

Animal Services coordinated with A Passion For Paws Rescue, Inc., an Akita rescue group based out of southern California that was willing to take her.

“Lucky took a car ride to Las Vegas, where A Passion for Paws met us,” Pedersen said. “From there, she was transported to California to join the Akita ranch.”

Not long after, an Akita-enthusiast from Colorado, made the trek to California and adopted Lucky, now renamed to Yukii. She found her furever home, thanks to Pedersen.

For over 18 years, Pedersen has worked in this field and helped establish two no-kill animal shelters, first in South Salt Lake and second in Herriman. The no-kill shelter does not kill healthy or treatable animals even when the shelter is full, reserving euthanasia for terminally ill animals or those considered dangerous to public safety.

“We bring veterinarians in to work with the sick or injured,” she said. “Dog trainers come in to work on behavioral issues with canines like Lucky, and we work with rescue organizations to help elderly pets find a home.”

Since the Herriman Police Department added the Animal Services unit in 2019, Pedersen has enjoyed her time with Animal Services as her department helps pets and their owners reunite, rescue injured animals and facilitate adoptions. She has worked with animals of all kinds. Dogs, cats, rabbits, goats, ducks—you name it, she has probably saved it.

During their first few weeks with the department, Pedersen and fellow service officer Charlotte Fenstermaker were called to rescue a family of baby ducklings from a storm drain.

After some quick thinking and ingenuity, they were able to rescue the ducklings and find a new home for them.

“A day in the life of an animal services officer differs from day to day,” Pedersen said.

“And that’s what makes the job.”

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When an animal goes missing, social media is often used to spread the word about the lost pet. Residents will call Animal Services to report the missing pet and send a photo and information for them to post on its lost and found Facebook page, www.facebook.com/HerrimanAnimalServices.

“This is really an effective way for getting these guys back to their families,” Pedersen said.

Case in point: Zuzu.

“Zuzu was found and reported as a stray feral cat, but when we picked her up, she was so sweet and wanted to 'hug' you while you held her,” Pedersen said. “She didn’t have a microchip, so we held on to her hoping an owner would call in.”

No one called and Zuzu was listed on PetFinder when she became available for adoption.

This is where the story turns. Zuzu had an owner, and the owner's sister saw her on PetFinder and called the owner to let her know.

“The owner was unaware of Herriman Animal Services, although she had checked with other places,” Pedersen said. “They came down, identified her and were happily reunited after three weeks.”

Animal Services operates a short-term shelter located on the south side of J. Lynn Crane Park and a long-term shelter is located in South Jordan at 10882 South Park Rd. As the community is rapidly expanding, there is a need for a bigger shelter. A new, bigger no-kill/ adoption/holding center is in the city’s plans to keep up with the growing population.

Another addition to Herriman is a 5-acre dog park, slated to open summer 2021. It will be dedicated to the police K9s that were killed in the line of duty.

“We are really excited about the new dog park being built this summer,” Pedersen said.

“This gives owners the chance to exercise their pets in a safe and contained environment.” l

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Mountain Ridge softball aiming for school’s first region championship

By Justin Adams | justin.a@thecityjournals.com

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ith a 10-0 start to the season (5-0 in region), the Mountain Ridge softball team has high hopes for its first full season, including a goal to capture the school’s first region championship for a team sport.

“One thing I’m really excited for is that we have a chance to be the first team here at Mountain Ridge to win a region title,” said head coach Andre Ashton, who previously coached baseball at West Jordan High and boys basketball at Herriman High. “None of our other sports have been able to do that yet.”

While individual athletes such as swimmers and wrestlers have won region and state championships for the second -ear school, no team has yet won a trophy for the Sentinels.

Even last year, in the school’s inaugural year, Ashton expected his team to do well.

“With our whole new school, there was a theme of us getting beat up on,” he said.” But softball-wise, we had a lot of girls come over from Riverton and Herriman.”

Taegan Smith, a junior shortstop and a team captain, said she was intrigued by the prospect of helping to build a new program from scratch.

“I wanted to come here so I could build a legacy and make a name for Mountain Ridge,” she said.

Of course, that legacy-building had to be put off for a year.

“We were going to have a good year,” Ashton said. “We started off 2-1. All our other sports were super young and inexperienced. But we were expecting to have a really good season last year, but obviously that got cut short.”

If there were any Region 7 coaches who underestimated the brand new school last year, they’ve certainly been made aware by now. In five region games so far, the team has outscored its opponents 82-18. In all competition, it holds a 158-24 scoring advantage.

The Sentinels have 10 players with a batting average of .400 or better (minimum of 20 at-bats). Junior Tessa Hokanson leads the team in runs and hits with 24 apiece and has a .667 batting average. Smith leads the team in home runs (seven) and RBI (29). The other team captain, senior outfielder Kiley Avery, is batting .636 and has 21 hits and has scored 20 runs.

“The strength of our team is definitely our hitting,” Smith said. “We’re also gelling really well and all getting along as a team.”

Ashton agreed that hitting is the team’s strength but added that they still need to work on its defense if it wants to achieve its goals.

“Our defense is coming along,” he said.

A Mountain Ridge hitter makes contact with a pitch in a match against Kearns. (Justin Adams/City Journals)

“We’ve had a couple errors in the first few hard to beat.” games. We’re always going to hit, and then The Sentinels will have a chance to if our defense and pitching come along on prove themselves at the state softball tournathe backside, I think we’re going to be pretty ment, which begins May 14. l

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RSL basketball program getting new court

By Justin Adams | justin.a@thecityjournals.com

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he RSL Academy basketball team will have a new home court to defend this year, after investing in a brand new court that will soon be installed inside the RSL Academy practice facility.

In its inaugural season this winter, the team had to resort to playing at offsite facilities such as Athlos Academy. “[That] has not allowed us to curate a fan base that you normally would see at a high school,” said RSL Academy Athletic Director Becky Hogan. “If you come to soccer games you will see hundreds of fans lining the sidelines. It is an electric, exciting environment. Having the courts installed here at the Academy will immediately impact that missing portion of our programs.”

Even without a home court, the team had a successful first season, according to head coach David Evans, who came to RSL Academy after two years at Wasatch Academy, a boarding school in Mt. Pleasant.

“The first season was a big success,” Evans said. “We have kids from all over. We have kids from everywhere, from Vegas to Maryland to Hawaii. It’s been really, really fun.”

The team plays a mix of local and national competition, including traveling to tournaments. Next year the team plans to play in tournaments in Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Nevada and Texas. But when they play home games, it will be on its brandnew court, complete with hoops that were last used by the Charlotte Bobcats of the NBA. One issue with basketball courts in large indoor facilities is the fact that greater depth behind hoops can make it more difficult for shooters, something that has been well-documented in NCAA Final Four games, which have often been played in football stadiums. To prevent that, the Academy will put some screens up behind the court. There will also be bleachers added so more fans can attend the games. l

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How different cities around the valley are approaching summer events

By Justin Adams | justin.a@thecityjournals.com

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or many Utah residents, big summer events like fairs, festivals and concert series are a summer staple. So it was a big disappointment to have all those events canceled last summer due to COVID-19. Now with cases declining and vaccinations widely available, cities around the Salt Lake valley are figuring out the best way to bring these popular events back.

“We’re actually just getting it nailed down right now,” said Keaton Asay, a special events coordinator for Sandy City, speaking about the city’s Fourth of July celebration. “In the past it’s our biggest event, with 35,000 to 40,000 people. We had to think about how we could scale it back.”

According to Asay, the event will include events like the 5k race, a Spikeball tournament and a food truck night. However, they’ll be going without a parade as well as stages for live music. The fireworks show will also be coordinated in such a way as to prevent lots of people gathering in one area.

Part of the difficulty of organizing big citywide events during a pandemic is that organizers have no way of knowing what state or county restrictions might be in place months down the road. With limited time to prepare, Asay said it made more sense for Sandy to plan conservatively, rather than to risk having to make major adjustments at the last minute.

Organizers for South Jordan’s SoJo Summerfest faced a similar dilemma. As one of the first big events of the summer season (usually taking place in early June) the city usually starts planning in the thick of winter.

“At that time, case counts were pretty high. I wish we had a crystal ball at that time,” said Janell Payne, a recreation director for South Jordan.

Unsure of what the next few months would look like, they made the call to delay the event from the beginning of summer to the end of summer (Sept. 13-18).

“I know mask mandates have been lifted for the state. Things are going well now, and hopefully they’ll be even better,” Payne said.

Like Sandy, South Jordan will be adapting its event to whatever circumstances in September may necessitate. One possibility is shifting the event from its regular venue at South Jordan City Park to the Equestrian Park, which has fewer entry and exit points, allowing the city to better control attendance.

For its more limited events held in the past year, the city has begun using an online ticketing and reservation system to help manage crowd sizes and other logistics. That will likely be used again for SoJo Summerfest and possibly for future events as well.

“The benefits of knowing how many people to plan on is very helpful. If people are open to that, we’ll definitely continue that,” Payne said.

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Many Utahns are eager for a return to fun summer events, such as Butlerville Days in Cottonwood Heights, pictured here. (Justin Adams/City Journals)

In Taylorsville, city leaders are betting on improving conditions with a full steam ahead approach.

“After checking with the county and state health departments, we have been authorized to hold Taylorsville Dayzz this year,” event committee chairman Jim Dunnigan said.

“And, if the numbers continue to trend as they are now—with fewer positive COVID tests and coronavirus hospitalizations—we will be allowed to host it without requiring masks or social distancing. But either way, it’s officially a go.”

Taylorsville Dayzz (June 24-26) is expected to include all the features of a “normal year” including vendors, parades, a car show and live entertainment.

Likewise, Midvale City’s Harvest Days festival is aiming to include its regular attractions, albeit with some precautions.

“Safety requirements include signage reminding people to keep within their own groups, eat only at designated areas, and have multiple handwashing/sanitizing stations,” communications officer Laura Magness said during a Midvale City Council meeting in March.

They’ll also be limiting the number of vendor tents so that they can be adequately spaced apart from one another.

Residents can stay updated on various city-hosted events this summer by following their respective cities on social media. l

Intermountain Riverton Hospital Earns Level IV Trauma Center Designation Riverton Hospital has received a Level IV trauma center designation from the Utah Bureau of Emergency Medical Services.

Earning a Level IV trauma center designation certifies Riverton hospital can provide advanced trauma life support to evaluate and stabilize patients before transferring them to a higher-level trauma center, if needed. Level IV trauma centers must also meet strict criteria and be equipped to provide advanced trauma life support at all times.

The Level IV designation was awarded after an extensive review and survey by the bureau. Surveyors praised the hospital for good leadership, excellent relationships with emergency medical services first responders and other community partners, as well as well-designed mass transfusion protocols.

The designation assures that the best resources are at the bedside of the patients and helps many Riverton Hospital patients to receive trauma care closer to home.

“This is excellent recognition of the care our team provides to all patients and the processes we’ve developed to continually improve care,” says Todd Neubert, RN, Riverton Hospital administrator. “Thanks to our Riverton Hospital team for ensuring our hospital is known for quality, safety, and overall excellence.”

For patients needing specialized advanced care, Riverton Hospital will rapidly assess and stabilize patients and function as the entry point to Intermountain’s system of integrated specialty care.

“The entire Riverton team has worked diligently to meet all the state requirements,” says Spencer Proctor, MD, trauma medical director at Riverton Hospital. “Our whole community will benefit from this designation.”

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Do you have all the resources you need for summer break?

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In previous years, families have collected information about district resources at a Family Resource Fair as pictured here; this year it will be held as a drive-by fair. (Photo courtesy of Toni Brown.)

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ordan School District is hosting a driveby Family Resource Fair May 11 at West Jordan Middle School (7550 South Redwood Road in West Jordan) and May 13 at Copper Mountain Middle School (12106 South Anthem Park Blvd. in Herriman). It should

take less than 30 minutes to drive through the various stations to collect information packets, snacks and games for the kids.

“The Language and Culture Services department is excited to get this information to parents before the summer so that they have

access to it,” district LCS Outreach Specialist Toni Brown said. “We have a lot of language resources for families that aren't being utilized to their full potential, as well as lots of social and emotional resources that kids will benefit from right now. We're finding that

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We’re never sure and we’re usually winging it, just doing the best we can.

It reminds me of when my brother knocked the wind out of himself by being stupid. Mom thought he was choking and performed the Heimlich. He couldn’t breathe for two hours. She did the best she could with the information she had.

I love mom but she wasn’t perfect.

Thank heavens.

She cheated at Skip-Bo, had no patience with stupidity, and hated animals with a passion. When she got remarried and moved to a ranch in North Carolina, we found it a unique and hilarious karma. Her emails to me often started with, “Well, I kicked the rooster again today.”

Mom might have loathed poultry, but when the wind snapped her beautiful globe willow tree in half, she mourned it like a family member. Every spring, mom’s garden would bloom with color. She loved ladybugs and butterflies. She’d also hand my daughters a saltshaker and tell them to feed the snails.

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She taught my girls that flipping off another driver was perfectly acceptable – even necessary. Convinced that video games would usher in the apocalypse, mom refused to buy an Atari system, but she sewed puppets to teach us stories from classic literature like Hamlet and Beowulf. (I threw the Ophelia hand puppet into the river, watching her skirts float up around her as she sank to her death.

My childhood was a bit melodramatic.)

Mom could be stubborn to the point of madness, but she was also whip smart and ready to jump into a theological debate at the drop of a Bible.

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Mom once told me her children were her inspiration. An inspiration to move across the country.

As a final joke, mom requested each of her children to speak at her funeral. I considered digging up the Beowulf puppets and delivering her eulogy via Grendel, the monstrous creature doomed to wander the earth.

She would have loved it.

Mom worked as a teacher’s aide at an elementary school before she died. (I don’t think the two are connected, but it was an elementary school.) At the funeral, her coworkers told me what a great woman she was. I already knew that.

We often put the dead on a pedestal (which is dangerous because they can roll off and fall on people). But mom wouldn’t want to be remembered as being a perfect person who never messed up, got angry, felt alone, burned dinner, swore, failed, tried again, and again, and again.

If you’re a mom on Mother’s Day this year, that’s the message for you. You were never meant to get everything right. You don’t need to achieve perfection. It isn’t even possible. Just embrace your wonderful messiness.

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In fact, when he took the head coaching job at Mountain Ridge, Bangert said he liked the prospect of building a culture from the ground up at a school that opened in 2019. This was appealing because he sees himself as a culture coach.

“Winning games is great, but I want to send these players off with life lessons and try to create leaders in every one of these young men,” he said.

Bangert is using four pillars in crafting that culture: teamwork, keeping things simple, prioritizing and executing, and distributed leadership.

While the culture is important, Bangert said the young men on his team mesh well with the culture.

“I’ve got a really good group of boys, and I’ve coached these boys for a few years at other programs, and they are really a brotherhood,” he said.

“They respect the game, and they respect everything. We try to build trust amongst the teammates, the players, the coaches and try to make it more a Mountain Ridge junior Colby Roberts (in red) helps Alta junior Ian Bushell (in white) off the field during a 13-7 win over Alta on March 25. (Photo courtesy of Mountain Ridge High School athletics.)

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That family environment fosters a lot. Senior Dallin Tanner said since everyone treats each other with respect, it makes the players want to pay it forward.

“We don’t want to have that reputation as a sports program to be the jerky team,” he said. “We just want to build up the school more than tear it down.”

Mountain Ridge recently traveled to Alta High School for what would turn out to be a highly competitive match. In an email relaying the story, MRHS assistant softball coach Callie Fielding, who attended, said the match was physical and the referees were letting a lot go.

At one point, Alta junior Ian Bushell injured his knee and tried to hobble off the field while the game was still in motion. Mountain Ridge junior Colby Roberts noticed Bushell’s struggle and immediately went to help.

In Fielding’s recount, she said it seemed Bushell fell into Roberts’s arms and looked “so thankful someone came to help him.”

The efforts don’t stop there. Bangert recalled a time when a recent snowstorm hit the area earlier this school year and his players were helping push cars out that were stuck.

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