Everyone has their own ways of relieving stress. For Macie Grams, a 9th grade student at Chaffin Junior High, volleyball is the answer. Following in her mother’s footsteps, ninth grader Macie Grams plays volleyball.  She started at the young age of seven and has only gone up from there. She ha...

When Sydney was a kid, her mom really wanted her to be in volleyball. Sydney's mom played volleyball when she was kid. Unfortunately, she hurt her knee and couldn't play anymore. Her mom encouraged her to play volleyball and Sydney had no reservations to play the sport.  For Sydney Klein, volleyball is really impor...

“Football isn’t about you. It’s about your team as a whole. So when you get discouraged you have to remember to keep going for the team and not just yourself,” said Noah Hugen, number nine on the ninth grade Chaffin football team. This was his reply to the question of how he stayed motivated thro...

T’kavion King is a running back on the football team for Chaffin Jr High. He is an 8th grader who plays on the Freshman team. “I don’t think I would be good in another position,” T’kavion states as he sits in front of me on the gym floor, both of us scooting closer to the wall so the Volle...

Chaffin freshman Madi Nading (#10) is the left defensive specialist and outside hitter. This is her third and last year playing volleyball for Chaffin. Madi started playing volleyball for Fort Smith Juniors (FSJ) when she was nine years old, and she doesn't plan on stopping any time soon. Nading intends...

Freshman James Collie is known as #72 on the football field. He has played on the Chaffin Junior High football team for two years. James is very charismatic and silly off the field, but once he steps foot onto that field he's got his head in the game! Every football player has a motivation to pl...