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school sports coverage in the state. The Prep Informer will be
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best football players in the state of Idaho in each classification.
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be listing the top five performing players in each classification
and what they do from week to week.
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will be released on Friday with 1A being released next week. With
the help of coaches, media and fans, we'll be awarding a player of
the year for each classification as well as the LeMoyne Trophy to
the top overall football player in the state of Idaho at the
conclusion of the season.
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MAN
OVERNIGHT: Minico's Roland Growing Up Fast ...
Finally
Minico's Jordan Roland makes a tackle
against Bishop Kelly. (photo by Steve
Conner)
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RUPERT
- After nearly an entire season of what felt like pushing a boulder
uphill, Minico linebacker Jordan Roland wondered if his
ability
on the field would
ever catch up with his dedication
to training.
In the unlikeliest of moments, the two collided - right in the
middle of Minico's 46-0 shellacking at the hands of Hillcrest in
the first round of the 4A state playoffs last year.
"Jordan was pretty average until that final game," Minico head
coach Tim Perrigot recalled. "But in that one night against
Hillcrest, he grew up and became a man. We were happy with the way
he ended his season and we've been happy with him ever
since."
But it was a long road to get there.
Roland was thrust into his first starting role on varsity at
linebacker next to All-Great Basin Conference Team member Colby
May.
"I was expected to perform like a senior," said Roland, whose
father Anthony played at Idaho State. "I thought I was going to be
able to handle it, but the speed of the game on the varsity level
was so much harder for me to adjust to. As the season went on, I
became more and more frustrated with myself and with how the season
was turning out for our team."
This certainly wasn't the result Roland expected after committing
to a fierce workout schedule with teammate Keelan McCaffrey. The
pair grabbed former Minico standout quarterback Dane Broadhead's
Carroll College weight lifting regimen and committed to it three
days a week. On days they weren't lifting, Roland and McCaffrey
arrived at school at 7 a.m. to run drills for an hour and then run
3.5 miles of hills afterward.
"Keelan and I were just two guys chasing a dream," Roland said.
"When we went to the weight room, we would talk about how much we
loved the game. We also worked out some with Skyler 'Poke' Morgan
(former Minico running back and 4A Player of the Year now at Idaho
State).
"I learned so much from Keelan about hard work and becoming a
leader. I think without him I wouldn't have evolved into what I'm
becoming."
What Roland becomes in 2010 remains to be seen, but Perrigot
thinks he may be one of the best players in the Great Basic
Conference by season's end.
"You hope as a coach that when you coach up a kid, he will
improve," Perrigot said. "Some kids buy into what you're teaching
them. Jordan is one of those kids who has bought into the way we're
teaching the game."
Entering his senior season, Roland has his sights set on winning
on the field and returning Minico to gridiron glory with a
conference championship. But that's not all he wants to accomplish
this year.
"My goals for this year are to win but I also want these younger
players to recognize me as a leader and take that example that we
set and build off of that," Roland said. "I want to help lay a
foundation for leadership."
With his commitment to and passion for the game, Roland just might
realize that and much more in 2010.
- Jason
Chatraw
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TIRED
OF ALMOST: Fruitland's Martarano
aims to go out as a champion
FRUITLAND -
Finding success as an athlete at the
varsity level is not easy in one sport. Three is almost unheard of.
But that's just the way it is with Fruitland
High School's Jarica Martarano.
 Selected to the
3A Snake River Valley first team in volleyball, an honorable
mention in basketball, and first
team catcher in softball, Martarano has an incredible
athletic resumé.
That was only what she did last year. As
a junior.
The senior on the Grizzlies volleyball
team's back row enters her final year determined to accomplish a
goal she has always had-winning a state championship. Last year,
the Grizzlies placed third in volleyball, lost both state
tournament games in basketball, and finished second in softball.
Finishing tantalizingly close as a junior, this summer's goal was
to work hard to realize her dream. Her training encompassed all
three sports with a work ethic that has been passed down to each
generation in her town.
"Fruitland
has hard workers; that's what we're known for," she said. Alongside
teammate and best friend Jandee Carlson as leaders of a very young
volleyball team, she has embraced her home-grown traits and
relishes being a person that freshman and sophomore teammates look
up to. "I love being a leader and even though we have a young team,
all of these girls are good enough to be on varsity. They are
really, really good."
Always quick to credit those around her,
Martarano has emerged as the face of Fruitland girls' athletics.
Despite the time she invests in three different sports and doing
her best with schoolwork, she keeps her perspective the best way
possible: "I just like to have fun and not take things too
seriously."
The Fruitland phenom refuses to be
consumed by the pressures of athletics or winning a state
championship.
Unsure of where she will go to college,
the three-sport-star believes it will be to play softball. "Maybe
[somewhere] close so my family can see me play and so I can be
close to them," she said. For now, as a senior at Fruitland,
success will be measured by "getting the best possible out of the
year," regardless of the sport.
Martarano's talent, postseason
experience, solid work ethic, and leadership could be the fuel that
powers Fruitland to a state title this year in volleyball,
basketball, or softball. Or maybe even all three-a dream that
doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility for Fruitland's
hardest working athlete.
- Alex
Calinsky
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