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Page A-36 — Shelton-Mason County Journal — Thursday, June 11, 2020 By Justin Johnson Instead of talking about her numerous ac- mmtg lemma]! QBLT35¥2am Fredrickson was leader for senior-ladn Bulldog. Vl/eyba/l sage. “I don’t understand how it feels to not play the sport I love for what could be the last time, but I would like to give this award to all of you because you guys deserve it more than I do.” Fredrickson recorded a team-best 284 kills complishments, however, the 5-foot-4 senior’s first thoughts were with her fellow Class of 2020 graduates. “I would like to (take) a moment to apologize to the Class of 2020 as a whole, but mostly to just/n@masoncounty. com qual parts quiet humility and fiery com- petitiveness, Hannah Fredrickson’s lead- ership was a critical component in the success of North Mason High School’s volleyball team last fall. By Justin Johnson justin@masoncounty. com uiet and unassuming. That’s how North Mason High School volleyball coach Kanoe' Lilly described her team last year. It’s a pretty apt description of Lilly too. every athlete who did not get to compete in their season,” Fredrickson wrote in a text mes- 7 .. R. Quiet, unassumig Lil/y led Norh Mason to 74-Win season Lilly wrote in an email. “Before the sea- son started, I knew we had the potential to ,play some awesome volleyball and (North Mason) was the team to watch. I’m very proud of what we accomplished. I’m very appreciative of all the coaches and players for letting me play loud (3.34 per set), had 81 serVice aces and 348 digs, . “This year was so very special to me,” FAR see COACijage A—38 see ATHLETE, page A—38 Take thetime needed to learn to be a better person In I a racist? V I’ve lost count of how many times In my 22 years working in athletics, I’ve interacted with people from just about every country on earth. I believe I’ve always tried to be respectful and equal to everyone that I’ve encountered, but then again, don’t we all think that? I grew up in one of the least racially di- verse areas of the country, a sleepy, mostly Mormon farming valley in northern Utah. By JUSTIN JOHNSON I’ve asked myself that question lately. There were two black kids both adopted :— in the valley, and by the time I got to high school, one of the two had moved elsewhere. My high school was outside of the valley in a much larger city. Out of the 1,700 students at the high school I attended, which encom— passed grades 10-12, there was only one black student — a sophomore. Growing up I rarely had interactions with any minority culture. In fact, it wasn’t until I started writing for the Ogden, Utah-based Standard-Examiner about college athletics at Weber State Univer- sity that I started having anything more than momentary interactions with black athletes. In school, we learned the basic — and very ‘ much glossed over —— history of slavery in the United States, along with a ClifiNotes ver- Sions of de-segregation and the civil rights movement of the 19605. Beyond that, I remember learning more about “the Holocaust than I did about the see FAR POST,,page A-38