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Lady Bison Sports "Athletes - of - the - Week"

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Each week, more or less, when schools are in session, The Progress daily newspaper & Jim's Sports Center
team up to confer the "Athlete-of-the-Week" honor on a pair of kids, one boy & one girl, from "Progressland."

When a Lady Bison Athlete is chosen we post it here as well. I've tried to accumulate all of them from
the very beginning. I think we have them all now, but let me know if there are any we've missed.
Click on any for a larger image or a link to the original LBSports tribute page.

And how about this one ?

Soccer,
Fall 2011

B.J. Bowman

Lisa Ambuski

Rachel Thompson

Breanna Peters

Also See ALL of the gantnews "Campus Corner"Articles HERE

2-3-07 - Basketball

10-13-07 - Soccer

9-22-07 - Tennis

4-18-08 - Softball

1-12-10 - Basketball

11-6-07 - Cross Country

3-14-09 - Basketball

10-23-09 - Soccer

10-2-10 - Soccer

1-1-11 - Basketball

4-23-11 - Track

10-1-11 - Soccer

12-24-11 - Basketball

12-31-11 - Basketball

2-4-12 - Basketball

4-28-12 - Softball

4-21-12 - Softball

12-27-08 - Basketball

9-22-12 - Volleyball

11-3-12 - Soccer

10-13-12 - Soccer

9-14-13 - Soccer

8-24-13 - Golf

11-2-13 - Soccer

1-25-14 - Basketball

5-3-14 - Softball

12-7-13 - Basketball

4-12-14 - Softball

9-27-14 - Soccer

1-7-15 - Basketball

9-10-15 - Tennis

4-16-16 - Softball

10-10-15 - Soccer

10-15-16 - Soccer

9-3-16 - Tennis

12-10-16 - Basketball

5-19-18 - Softball

4-28-18 - Softball

3-31-18 - Softball

9-8-18 - Tennis

9-15-18 - Soccer

10-13-18 - Soccer

12-22-18 - Basketball

5-25-19 - Softball

8-24-19 - Golf

9-21-19 - Soccer

10-4-06 - Volleyball

5-10-08 - Softball

11-1-14 - Soccer

The context: As I'm sure most visitors to this site are aware, Derek & Sloan are
husband and wife and both are on the faculty at Clearfield Junior-Senior High School.
Derek was formerly the Lady Bison Softball Head Coach and Sloan was formerly
LB Volleyball Head Coach. This was Derek's only appearance as "Athlete-of-the-Week"
while Sloan was featured five times, three times for Volleyball and twice for Softball.
Her five times to be so honored seems to be the most appearances by any one
athlete. Her younger sister Leann Bell was also honored twice.
The above entry is from Spring 2008 when Derek was playing Baseball at
C.H.S. and Sloan was a Softball standout at West Branch.
Small world we have going here.

1-18-20 - Basketball

9-26-25

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With Ellie's honors the number of Lady Bison mentions on the page now stands at eighty-two.
(the actual number of individual players is seventy-seven because five have been honored twice)
The 83 mentions are distributed among all the Lady Bison Sports as follows ~

Basketball -
Cross Country -
Golf -
Soccer -
Softball -
Tennis -
Track -
Volleyball -

The first sisters so honored were Emily Ryan (CHS '16) in '13 and Alayna Ryan (CHS '19) in '18,
both for Basketball though they were arguably just as impressive in Soccer.

Others who have now joined in the sibling sweepstakes include ~

Ruby Singleton (CHS '24), Volleyball, and Scarlett Singleton (CHS '23), Cross Country, both in '21.

Alaina Fedder (CHS '23) in '23 joining sister Abby Fedder (CHS '18) in 2018. both for Softball.

Mia Smith (CHS '26) in '25 alongside all-time scoring leader sister Elle Smith (CHS '23) in '22, both for soccer.

Mia Helsel (CHS '26) in '23 and Eve Helsel (CHS '28 in '25 both for Basketball.

Madi McBride (CHS '25) in '24 for Softball and now Ellie McBride (CHS '27) in '25 for Volleyball.

As of 9-26-25 there are eight Lady Bison honorees still competing.

We have similar pages devoted to Clearfield Football & Clearfield Swimming

Click on either link to redirect to their "Athlete of the Week" pages. (Open in new tabs)

9-18-20 - Tennis

10-31-20 - Volleyball

3-13-21 - Basketball

4-10-21 - Softtball

5-22-21 - Softtball

6-5-21 - Softtball

9-11-21 - Golf/Soccer

21
2
5
18
21
8
1
7
83 ~

The resaon there are 83 honors among 82 awards is because Allison Shipley
was simultaneously honored for her accomplishments in two sports in the
same season; Golf & Soccer during the Fall 2021 sports season.

For ten years the only Lady Bison to have been honored twice was
B.J. Bowman (CHS '12) in '09 for Soccer and in '12 for Softball. She
was joined by Emma Hipps (CHS '22) in '18 for Soccer and '21 for Softball,
Allison Shipley (CHS '22) in '21 for Golf & Soccer, Elle Smith (CHS '23) for Soccer in '19 & '22 and Hailey Miles (CHS '26) for Golf in '24' & '25.

Anyone who has ever seen any of these girls play knows very well why.