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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
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