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Kate Holloway

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Fourth Graders Help Bring Home A Varsity Basketball Win

The Ladue Lady Rams had dedicated supporters rooting them on Monday night.

There’s a very good reason why Reed School fourth grade teacher Karla Rigdon skipped grading papers and spent the evening cheering for the Ladue High Rams’ basketball team. A real simple reason for certain. Seems that star guard senior Kate Holloway is a Cadet teacher in her class. Ladue seniors get a chance to go into the classroom to see if a future in teaching might suit them. Frankly, Holloway adores her grade schoolers quite a bit. She put on the chalk board a schedule of home games in the new year. The students voted to attend Monday night’s game with the Summit Falcons. Armed with Skittles, Ropes, Twix, Laughy Taffy, bags of popcorn and canned soda, 15 fourth graders sat in the front rows of the bleachers and cheered heartily for No…

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Ladue Horton Watkins High School

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Ladue Declaws Affton 48-39 In First Round of Hancock Holiday Tournament

Taylor Robinson dominates the inside game with 26 points.

If you look in the box-score, you’d see that Ladue won over Affton in the first round of the Hancock girls holiday tournament 47-39. But, it was much, much closer than that. With 5:07 left in the game, the Lady Cougars held a momentary 32-31 lead, hacking away at an earlier 10-point deficit. Ladue’s coach Cord Dockery was not pleased. He held a fairly lengthy team meeting at the conclusion of the match in the Tiger Dome at Hancock. This is a tournament that last year saw the Rams run off three wins and head into January undefeated. A year ago, the Lady Rams ran off the first 20 wins of the season before falling to Whitfield. The hill is a steeper climb this year. Lauren Maclin is playing ball at Forest Park Community College and 6-foot-3 …

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Ladue Horton Watkins High School (in Ladue-Frontenac Patch)

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