Holladay • Nick Ward always could hear the music blaring from the other side of Olympus High School’s sprawling campus as he laced up his cleats, slipped on his pads and carried his helmet out to football practice on those fall afternoons. The tunes were one thing, but those discernible pings, the sound of alloy making contact with a ball again and again, always served as confirmation.
Digging into the batter’s box, settling into his stance and staring at the stitches is where Hayden Curtis went to tune it all out. And still does. Before his senior year began, before he once more became one of the most indispensable players in Class 5A baseball, Curtis plopped a ball on a tee and just tried to envision the spring, the last few months of being a Titan along with the 14 other members of the senior class, to load up and release.