I thought I'd get this out publically and officially, in case anyone happened to be wondering. Mike Winker will continue to be part of the KMRY broadcast team for Xavier football this fall.
Winker stepped down as Activities Director at Xavier in June. He had been the school's first and only AD since classes began in 1998, having served earlier as AD at Regis High School (which joined with La Salle High School to become Xavier). For those 18 seasons, Winker had filled the commentary role for KMRY's broadcasts of Xavier football, missing just three games in all Xavier's history.
With Mike moving on to other roles, it was an open question whether he might elect to stay on with KMRY to do the football broadcasts. After all, there's travel to exotic spots like Decorah, Waverly, Independence and Tama coming up this year. But he did decide to stay on, with Scot Hughes (that's me) handling the play-by-play for his seventh season.
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I also wanted to mention some of last season's football honors, at least so far as some of the returning players for Xavier in 2016. Of course the offense will return the entire backfield (QB Bryce Schulte, FB Erik Rodriguez and TB Maliki Wilson) along with a couple of linemen. The defense returns two or three players who may not have been starters all season, but contributed a lot and were practically starting players by season's end. So there's a decent amount of experience coming back from what turned out to be a 9-1 Saints squad in 2015.
The players returning who were honored as Class 3A All-District 4 first team players include Schulte, who was District Player of the Year; Wilson; and offensive lineman Sam Meyers. Second team honorees who will be back this year include linemen Max Johnson and Ryan Jasper (Jasper also punted for the Saints last year).
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