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The Plano Senior football team will get a chance to defend its Division I 7-on-7 State Championship after all.

Considering the carryover Plano West softball had from 2012 to 2013, the Lady Wolves may have been expected to gel quicker than most teams.

After losing a graduating class that included Texas signees Holly Kern and Rachel Scott, Plano East softball (17-15) was expected to lean on its seniors in 2013.

Two months, two quarterbacks, two brothers, two blown out knees.

After more than a decade commandeering the Plano Senior softball dugout, head coach Cynthia Zea has resigned.

The quartet of Tarell Brown, Aaron Ross, Michael Griffin and Michael Huff proved to be a winning combination in the secondary in helping The University of Texas claim the 2005 national championship.

As the preseason favorite in 12-2A, Sunnyvale entered the 2013 district season with a big target on its chest.

My first full week of summer vacation finished with a "bang" at the Texas Revolution indoor football game.

The Nike Football Festival made a stop in north Texas June 8 as 24 teams from the Metroplex and east Texas descended on Craig Ranch and the Michael Johnson Performance Center in McKinney.

The McKinney Boyd baseball team's 2013 campaign was one rife with change.

McKinney native Edwin Figueroa readily admits he was off his game at UFC 156 in February when he succumbed to the punching power of Francisco Rivera.

This was going to be a down year for Plano Senior softball.

When Plano East alum Muhammed "King Mo" Lawal signed with Bellator Fighting Championships in May 2012, it was widely presumed he'd make short work of the promotion's light heavyweight division.

After nearly 20 years applying his strength and conditioning principles in collegiate and professional football, Tony Ollison's coaching career is coming full circle.

For the first time since 2005, no Mesquite ISD baseball team made the Class 5A baseball playoffs.

Consider it mission accomplished for the Centennial 7-on-7 football team.

On June 6, Plano West graduate Billy McKinney fulfilled a lifelong dream when he was taken in the first round (No. 24 overall) by the Oakland A's in the 2013 MLB First-Year Player Draft.

The top two teams at Saturday's Plano West State Qualifying Tournament advanced to the Division I State 7-on-7 Tournament.

Another season and another playoff berth have given the Celina baseball team plenty of representation on the 10-3A all-district list.

The Lady Wolverines will be under new leadership next season after the hiring of former Denton head coach Iseed Khoury.

It was a rough season for both Poteet and West Mesquite, who were left on the outside looking in at the playoff race at year's end.

Sunnyvale played in one of the toughest Class 2A districts in the state.

The last time a head coach other than Jane Jackson filled out the lineup card for Coppell's tennis team, the entirety of the Cowboys current roster was yet to be born.

Before even getting into the results of Saturday's NIKE Football Festival, Allen offensive coordinator Jeff Fleener wanted to talk about the set up of the competition itself.

On Tuesday, the UIL Legislative Council approved a recommendation limiting football programs to 90 minutes of full-contact, game-speed practices per player per week.

In the grand scheme of things, the host team's final pool play game Saturday at the Plano West State Qualifying Tournament was inconsequential.

By all accounts, Saturday's showing at the Plano West SQT was a step forward for the Plano Senior football team.

The returns may be early for new head coach Randy Jackson, but Plano East accomplished something Saturday that had eluded the Panthers for three straight years.

A pair of 2009 Coppell graduates were selected last week in the 2013 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft.

The 2013 Texas Women’s Open is rapidly approaching with golfers from throughout the Metroplex and nation set to tee off June 19-20 at The Old American Golf Club in The Colony.

National Signing Day    ( top )

LEWISVILLE — With Lewisville’s football team in a transitional phase under first-year head coach Gregg Miller, results were tough to come by on the gridiron as the Farmers finished with a 1-9 mark.

As high schools around the country celebrated National Signing Day on Wednesday, the Plano East athletic department saw 18 of its best athletes join the fray.

The National Signing Day spotlight shined brightly on four student-athletes inking letters of intent at Prestonwood Christian Academy on Wednesday afternoon.

If the West Mesquite players were not sure how much talent was on last year's football team, college recruiters were a constant reminder.

Few sports are entrenched into one city's history like soccer is for Plano.

Elation, celebration and achievement permeated the walls of Plano Senior for National Signing Day.

With athletes around the country signing their National Letters of Intent on Wednesday, there was no shortage of Wakeland players making the cut.

Little Elm

While they may not have competed with the Plano West football players in terms of stature, the girls soccer players had the advantage in size Wednesday morning as nine inked scholarships on National Signing Day.

As Plano West athletic director, Mike Hughes is used to presiding over Signing Day ceremonies.

Plano East

McKinney Boyd saw many of its best and brightest take that next step Wednesday afternoon when 13 athletes in four different sports signed letters of intent to play collegiate athletics on National Signing Day.

Flower Mound

For years McKinney Boyd running back Bryan Driskell has soared above the competition, so it's only fitting that his football talents will take flight at the college level with the Air Force Falcons.

It's every high school football player's dream to play on Saturdays in the fall.

McKinney Boyd seniors Branson Davis and his best friend Vincent Whaley are taking their friendly golf rivalry to the next level.

FLOWER MOUND — With boys and girls soccer teams that have been represented in the postseason since at least the mid 1990s respectively, there hasn’t been any shortage of skilled players that have made their way through Marcus.

Wakeland

After years of dreaming, months of deliberating and a final few tension-filled days to make sure they made the right decision, area athletes could officially celebrate on Wednesday's National Signing Day.

Thousands of high school athletes took part in National Signing Day ceremonies on Wednesday, each with their own special story.

HORN

Allen

CELINA -- It was only a formality after an early commitment took away any surprise of Celina lineman Jake Raulerson's future collegiate team.

National Signing Day    ( top )

LEWISVILLE — With Lewisville’s football team in a transitional phase under first-year head coach Gregg Miller, results were tough to come by on the gridiron as the Farmers finished with a 1-9 mark.

As high schools around the country celebrated National Signing Day on Wednesday, the Plano East athletic department saw 18 of its best athletes join the fray.

The National Signing Day spotlight shined brightly on four student-athletes inking letters of intent at Prestonwood Christian Academy on Wednesday afternoon.

If the West Mesquite players were not sure how much talent was on last year's football team, college recruiters were a constant reminder.

Few sports are entrenched into one city's history like soccer is for Plano.

Elation, celebration and achievement permeated the walls of Plano Senior for National Signing Day.

With athletes around the country signing their National Letters of Intent on Wednesday, there was no shortage of Wakeland players making the cut.

Little Elm

While they may not have competed with the Plano West football players in terms of stature, the girls soccer players had the advantage in size Wednesday morning as nine inked scholarships on National Signing Day.

As Plano West athletic director, Mike Hughes is used to presiding over Signing Day ceremonies.

Plano East

McKinney Boyd saw many of its best and brightest take that next step Wednesday afternoon when 13 athletes in four different sports signed letters of intent to play collegiate athletics on National Signing Day.

Flower Mound

For years McKinney Boyd running back Bryan Driskell has soared above the competition, so it's only fitting that his football talents will take flight at the college level with the Air Force Falcons.

It's every high school football player's dream to play on Saturdays in the fall.

McKinney Boyd seniors Branson Davis and his best friend Vincent Whaley are taking their friendly golf rivalry to the next level.

FLOWER MOUND — With boys and girls soccer teams that have been represented in the postseason since at least the mid 1990s respectively, there hasn’t been any shortage of skilled players that have made their way through Marcus.

Wakeland

After years of dreaming, months of deliberating and a final few tension-filled days to make sure they made the right decision, area athletes could officially celebrate on Wednesday's National Signing Day.

Thousands of high school athletes took part in National Signing Day ceremonies on Wednesday, each with their own special story.

HORN

Allen

CELINA -- It was only a formality after an early commitment took away any surprise of Celina lineman Jake Raulerson's future collegiate team.

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