SSHS Losing Two Assistant Coaches, School Board Hires One Assistant
The Sulphur Springs School Board, at a special meeting Monday evening (June 22), accepted the resignations of two SSHS assistant coaches and hired a new assistant. Assistant Lady Cats Soccer Coach Kristov Martinez and Assistant Lady Cats Basketball Coach Katelyn Webster have resigned. Both are math teachers. Wildcats Athletic Director Greg Owens is working to find their replacements. The board Monday also approved Jacob Sexton as a...
Wildcats Edge Conditioning Program Opened Monday With Emphasis On Player Safety
By Don Julian This year marks the 15th year Wildcats Head Football Coach Greg Owens has had The Edge conditioning program during the summer. This year’s program, which opened Monday, June 8, at the Multipurpose Building, looked quite different in this age of the coronavirus. Sulphur Springs High School Multi-purpose Building Some 45 incoming 11th and 12th graders were in attendance for the day’s first session that ran from...
Sulphur Springs Opens The Edge Conditioning Program Monday
Wildcats Athletic Director and Head Football Coach Greg Owens told KSST Thursday that with the approval of the UIL, The Edge conditioning program would get underway Monday (June 8). As you can imagine in the age of coronavirus, Coach Owens said The Edge would look quite different this year. He said there would be an emphasis on distancing, how many people could be in the weight room and how many people could be in groups and inside....
Two Wildcats Football Assistant Coaches Submit Resignations
Two New SSHS Coaches Hired At the Monday night meeting, the Sulphur Springs school board accepted the resignations of two Wildcats football assistant coaches. The Sulphur Springs ISD trustees also approved two new coaches, as Athletic Director Greg Owens is shuffling his coaching staff. Wildcats Football Assistant Coach and Assistant Softball Coach Chris Valdovinos is leaving to become the Defensive Coordinator at Mexia for former...
Wildcats, Lady Cats, Area Teams Get District Assignments For Next Two Years Monday
The University Interscholastic League or UIL released sports districts for Texas high schools Monday morning (February 3). For Wildcats Football, there will be little change in their District 8 in Class 5A Region II, Division II. Out are Terrell and Kaufman and in is Crandall. Back will be Corsicana, Ennis, Forney, Greenville, North Forney and Royse City. Wildcats Football Coach Greg Owens had to find three non-district opponents...
SSISD Wildcat Football Banquet Including Student Athletic Trainers Takes Place At SSCC
Sulphur Springs Wildcats The 2019 Sulphur Springs Wildcats Football Team had their football banquet at the Sulphur Springs Country Club Thursday night, January 23. The Student Athletic Trainers were also part of the event. Wildcats Football Coach Greg Owens selected his entire senior class as football MVP. Each football position group coach introduced his players and talked about them. Coach Owens also explained what the evening...
Five Wildcats Football Players Make THSCA Academic All-State Team
Five Wildcats Football players made the Academic All-State list as selected by the Texas High School Coaches Association. Campbell Cody, Cameron Kaufert and Chase Haney made the 2nd Team and Zach Tiemeyer and Brandon Zavala were Honorable Mention selections. All five are seniors. Wildcats Football Coach and Athletic Director Greg Owens sent his congratulations and said he was proud of these young men for maintaining high academic...
Sulphur Springs Will Again Be 5A, Division II For Football and 5A For All Other Sports
Wildcats Athletic Director and Head Football Coach Greg Owens found out Tuesday (December 3) that Sulphur Springs will again be a 5A school for the next biennial alignment. The Wildcats will again be in 5A, Division II (smaller schools) for football. Sulphur Springs’ submitted number of 1251 students was just 42 more than the top cutoff level for Class 4A. Wildcats Offensive Coordinator Matt Young told Coach Owens he thought...
Wildcats Football Finishes Season
Explosive North Forney Offense Proves Almost Impossible to Stop in 70-13 Victory at The Prim It was a very tough night for the Sulphur Springs Wildcats Football Team Friday (November 8). An explosive North Forney offense that was hitting on all cylinders defeated the Wildcats, 70-13. The total points matched points given up in a Wildcats loss in 2012 in bi-district to Wylie East, 70-33. Ironically the Wildcats scored first in this...
Wildcats Football at Kaufman and Lady Cats Volleyball at Home on Game Day Friday
The Wildcats Football Team plays their next to last district game of the season on this game day Friday (November 1) and they are going to a place they may have never been to before, Kaufman’s Lions’ Stadium. Wildcats Football Coach Greg Owens remembers the stadium from his days playing there as Lindale’s head football coach. A journey back into Wildcats Football records as far as 1956 when Sulphur Springs went into...
