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By Justin Johnson
Instead of talking about her numerous ac-
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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,”
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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
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