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Star Local Media launches its 2019-20 "Sports Year in Review" series, beginning with a look back at the athletics years in Plano, Rowlett and Lake Cities.
Every team enters a season believing this could be their year.
After four years at the helm of the Allen softball program, Philip Spaniel is turning the page on his career.
The 2020 high school soccer season may not have reached its finish line, but scores of postseason accolades continue to pile in for several of the top players in the state.
The Colony softball superstar Jayda Coleman capped off her high school career with the highest of honors Thursday.
The Allen softball team has been on a steady ascent in recent years, snapping a 13-year playoff drought in 2018 and reinstating itself as a postseason contender. However, the program’s best work yet may very well have been in front of them.
Although the COVID-19 pandemic wiped out any stateside high school sports during the springtime, the recruiting landscape hasn’t missed a beat during times of quarantine.
For the last 15 years, Joseph Angrisano was working towards a moment like this.
Every team that competes in spring sports was left with questions after the COVID-19 pandemic forced the suspension, and later the cancellation of the remainder of the season.
Growing up, Lake Dallas senior goalie Sydney Frazier could not quite envision this is where she would be.
When Lee Weddall took over The Colony’s boys soccer program, he had some specific goals in mind.
Tom Vazhekatt and Coppell were ready for the playoffs.
After sporting one of the top teams in the state last season, Plano West head softball coach Mike Ledsome was anxious to see just what path his returning seniors would forge for themselves.
The District 6-6A softball schedule was just one game old before having its season cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic, spelling an abrupt end to what figured to be one of the area’s most competitive conferences.
The District 6-6A softball schedule was just one game old before having its season cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic, spelling an abrupt end to what figured to be one of the area’s most competitive conferences.
The District 6-6A softball schedule was just one game old before having its season cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic, spelling an abrupt end to what figured to be one of the area’s most competitive conferences.
Although the news didn’t become official until earlier this month, Bridget Hernandez had taken the Lewisville girls soccer team under her wing well beforehand.
AUSTIN —The University Interscholastic League (UIL) released requirements and guidelines for its member schools to begin limited UIL summer strength and conditioning and marching band practice starting June 8, 2020 as restrictions due to the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic begin to be lifted…
Editor’s Note: Nearly 20 years ago, The Colony’s boys basketball team made a run to the 2001 state tournament and was ranked as one of the best teams in the country. As part of a series regarding the team, The Colony Courier-Leader first takes a look back at how the Cougars made a run into t…
The District 9-6A softball schedule was a mere two games old before having its season cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic, spelling an abrupt end to what figured to be one of the area’s most competitive conferences.
Little Elm announced the hiring of Brian Swinney as the new girls soccer head coach in a press release Thursday morning.
The Lake Dallas Falcons have been in senior Brock Pope’s blood forever.
Across two decades coaching high school soccer, Rusty Oglesby has seen and done plenty.
In looking to fill the void left by 16 graduates from his 2019 roster, Allen head baseball coach Paul Coe put a premium on the Eagles’ final week of the preseason.
When the Lovejoy softball team takes the field next year, they’ll have one unifying focus in mind: honoring the seniors from their 2020 class.
By all accounts, this was supposed to be Prestonwood Christian senior Dennis Phillips’ year.
One month ago, the U.S. Soccer Development Academy announced its closure, raising the questions of how this could impact youth and high school soccer going forward.
The John Paul II boys basketball team had its best season ever in 2019-20, and a big part of that was due to the breakout year for junior Jaylon Tyson.
If high school sports were still taking place, they would be smack dab in the middle of postseason play right now.
Something special was brewing for The Colony girls soccer program this season, and the Lady Cougars were represented all across the board on the all-district team in 8-5A.
After another jump on the soccer field in 2020, the Little Elm boys soccer team was honored for its success with multiple district award winners.
Star Local Media continues its 2019-20 "Sports Year in Review" series with a look back at the athletics years in Allen, Flower Mound, Frisco and The Colony.
In a district like 6-6A, making the playoffs is a feat all of its own.
Sports are cloaked in numbers of all kinds, from batting averages and shooting percentages to final scores and wins and losses. In the wake of COVID-19 forcing a cancellation for all springtime UIL high school sports sports, one interesting footnote will be how streaks of consecutive playoff…
All season long, be it in practice or under the stadium lights for a district match, there was an underlying confidence within the Plano West boys soccer team that senior Connor Brown would find a way to score.
Marcus junior quarterback Garrett Nussmeier is headed back to his roots.
After having its postseason fate decided in the final week of the season the past two years, the Plano Senior girls soccer team was bracing for another frenzied homestretch — only this time, the Lady Wildcats controlled their own destiny.
Although 2020 will go down as an unfinished season for high school soccer teams across the state, Lovejoy still found its share of success on the pitch.
In hindsight, there might not have been a soccer team in District 9-6A more anxious to get through spring break than Plano West.
The Marcus boys soccer team stacked up among the best in the Metroplex and the state in 2020 — posting a staggering plus-54 goal differential to complement a 19-1-1 overall record. Within that mark came a 12-1 record in District 6-6A, good for 36 points and a 13-point lead on second place wh…
With the high school sports season officially over in Texas, Star Local Media talked to seniors from the area and allowed them to write their own reflection of their high school careers. Lake Dallas girls soccer senior Karina De Paoli takes a look back at her days as a Lake Dallas Falcon:
Hudson Polk has been living out his dream.
Wakeland has not only been the class of the district in recent years, there is a good argument to be made they have been the premier 5A program in Texas.
Similar thoughts divulged into The Colony girls soccer head coach Tommy Ray and his program.
This was not quite how Lake Dallas baseball coach Chris Haney envisioned his first year at the school going.
The spring of 2020 in high school athletics will always be summed up by what might have been.
May is supposed to mark the stretch run of the high school sports year.
Coppell softball head coach Mike Dyson can’t say it enough.
The 11-6A girls soccer season was not going according to plan for the three Mesquite ISD programs.
Another championship campaign saw the Lake Dallas boys soccer team take control of the all-district list in 8-5A.
As Kelly Stallings embarks on the first head coaching job of her career, the newly named head coach of the Plano Senior girls basketball team has learned from two of the best the program has to offer.
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