The bar was set high last season when the Hondo High School football program came out of the regular season with a near-perfect 9-1 record — with the Owls’ one loss coming to the eventual District 14-3A-DI champions: Jourdanton.
The new districts for Texas high school football, basketball and volleyball were released on Thursday morning by the University Interscholastic League (UIL) as part of a biennial tradition that takes changing enrollment into consideration for its member 6A-1A schools.
The UIL will announce its reclassification and realignment for the 2024-2026 school years on Thursday morning. The district alignments and reconfigured every two years based on every member school’s enrollment figures.
More than 30 years after they lined up across the field from each other in the Frontier Bowl, two former rivals talk about the 1989 classic. Joseph Farias was and still is a Harlandale Indian; Gabe Cisneros was and still is a McCollum Cowboy. They were from different sides of the McCollum-Harlandale neighborhood. Fate and football brought them together, along with a chance to sit and talk about those old glory days and the community they grew up in.
The Blanco Panthers suffered a season-ending loss to Edna in last year's regional final and in the second round the year before. But this year has a different feel. Blanco's 2nd-year head coach, Jamie Dixon, is familiar with Edna, having previously coached in their district.