Sports

And to think Kim “Gidge” Guidry almost did not become the head girls basketball coach at Vermilion Catholic High School.
Guidry was hired back in 1981 to be the VC girls’ basketball coach but did not coach a game for about four years.
She had to patiently wait for that position to reopen because a male assistant football coach was hired and the male coach became the girls basketball coach. Guidry had to settle for being the tennis coach and cheerleading coach.

The District 3 All-District Soccer teams were released and it looks like if your first name is Conner or Connor, you did well on the team.
The district is comprised of North Vermilion, Kaplan, Notre Dame and Abbeville.
The Offensive MVP in the district is North Vermilion’s Conner Patin.
The Defensive MVP is North Vermilion’s Connor Dupuy.
And the Coach of the Year is North Vermilion’s Mark Patin.
North Vermilion placed eight players on the first team and six on the second team.

The North Vermilion Patriots’ wrestling team brought home two individual state wrestling titles over the weekend.
Winning state in the 132-pound weight class was NV senior Rhett Maturin. Maturin was the defending state champion in his weight class.
Capturing his first Division III state title was NV junior Jourdan Theall in the 113-pound weight class.
Theall, a junior, was honored as the Most Outstanding Wrestler in Division III.