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Thursday, July 20, 2023 — Shelton—Mason Counn/ Journal Page 15 By Justin Johnson justh©masoncounty com senior-year trans- fer to Shelton High School sparked a re- surgence for Olivia Henry's love of sports. “All in all, I was really burned out my junior year on sports. I didn’t have any coaching and Capital (High School) was very toxic and very what can you do for me, Where at Shelton, they just Want to build you as a person; they want to feed into your life; they don’t are what you give them, they just want you to be your best and so that really helped spark my fire again and want to just play to have fun.” Despite just one season wearing the Red and Black, she made the most of it as a three-sport star for the Highclimbers. After earning All-Mason County Team honors in vol- leyball, girls basketball and girls track and field, Henry Climber swim team in top 10 at state meet By Matt Baide matt@masoncounty. com helton girls swim coach Rob Phelan is the Shelton-Mason County Journal’s All-County Girls Coach of the Year. The Shelton girls swim team placed ninth at the state meet, the highest ever finish in school history. “It’s great. It’s a testament to how good the kids have been doing,” Phelan told the Journal. “We’ve been really lucky with the kids doing so well, the boys and girls. The girls getting top 10 at state last year, that was really awesome.” Phelan swam at Sumner High School be fore swimming in college at Cent ‘al Wash- ington University, where he met co-coach Chad Youngquist. He began his coaching see COACH, page 17 Transfer 'to Shelton ignited Henry’s fire is the Shelton-Mason Coun- ty Journal ’3 Girls Athlete of Year for the 2022-23 season. “I played sports in She]- ton in rec league, so I knew (fellow senior) Danyka Squire and she really helped welcome me into the volleyball team because I didn’t know anytime,” Henry said. “I played volleyball my freshman year at Capital, but I didn’t play any other time, so I was a little ner- vous about coming back my senior year, but they were really welcoming, and they were all super kind to me. I was very nervous, but then after the first practice I wasn’t any more.” Henry capped her high school career earning a spot on the podium with a sixth— place finish in the javelin at the 2A state track & field championships in May. Henry’s throw of 108—feet, 3-inches on her first throw of the state meet was the longest throw of her career see ATHLETE, page 16 . am