Right In Front of Your Face

GOOD MORNING AND HAPPY FRIDAY!

Graham FFA Cotton Team wins State! Congrats to the Cotton Team of Gustavo Ramirez, Kolton Gough, Riley Wyatt and Hiram Fuentes. Individually Gustavo Ramirez was high point individual winning a buckle and $350 scholarship. Kolton Gough was 3rd and Riley Wyatt was 6th.

GHS Fishing Team Qualifies for State! Congratulations to Kirk Hutchens and Rob Lucas for making the Texas High School Bass Association State Championship for the second year in a row. They will be fishing Lake Ray Roberts May 20th and 21st in a field of over 200 teams from all across the state.

Congratulations to GHS Senior Smith Graham for placing 6th in Social Studies at the Texas UIL Academic State Meet last Saturday!

Lady Blues Playoffs vs Sweetwater- The Lady Blues lost game 1 last night in Hermleigh 8-5. Game 2 will be played today in Graham at 5:00 pm. Game 3, if necessary, will be played at 7:00.

Graham Steer Baseball Playoff Seeding Games- The Steers will play game one at 11:00 today vs Burkburnett. The winner of game one will play Iowa Park at 2:00. Game three, if necessary, will be played on Saturday at Noon. All games will be played at Hoskins Field in Wichita Falls. $5 Adults/$2 admission price.

Good Luck to the Lady Blues and Graham Steers Competing at the Regional Track Meet in Lubbock! Hunter Dooley (shot put), Jasmine Sims (long jump, 100m hurdles, 300m hurdles, 1600m relay), Morgan Shook (pole vault), Chloe Menard (triple jump, 800m relay), Nicole King (shot put), Jack Hays (discus), Will Walton (3200m), Finis Smith (100m, 400m relay, 800m relay), Wesley Martin (400m relay, 800m relay), Chase Gilmore (400m relay, 800m relay), Adam Groves (400m relay, 800m relay), Cassie Russell (800m relay, 1600m relay), Rosie Schaffer (800m relay, 1600m relay), Summer Croxton (800m relay, 1600m relay).

Lady Blues Golf Finishes an Excellent Season! Congratulations to  Ashley Choate, Abbi Iles, Maggie Nunley, Marleigh Sanders and Delaney Sullivent on an excellent season.  They finished their season at the Regional Tournament in Lubbock by shooting 336 and 343 and finishes 6th overall.  In most, if not all other regional tournaments, our girls score would have qualified for the state tournament.

Right in Front of Your Face

In 1968, climber Royal Robbins was attempting one of America’s most difficult solo climbs -- the 3,000 foot cliff known as Muir Wall on the El Capitan peak of Yosemite National Park. Two thousand feet into the climb, Robbins found himself in the kind of tough spot that can be encountered by anyone attempting a difficult task: He just couldn’t summon the strength and determination to make it to the top. In fact, he couldn’t even see the summit, despite all of his hard work.

What makes Robbins effort special is the solution he found. He decided to ignore the 1,000 feet left of the climb and instead focused on only the next five feet and so on until he reached the top.

“How do you climb a mountain when you can’t see the summit?” Robbins asks. “By setting targets you can see and hit.” In other words, the solution is right in front of your face.