State Representative Flynn Presents Texas Flag to Wildcats for Florida Trip
A couple of months ago, State Representative Dan Flynn of Van, a former high school football player, dropped by the Sulphur Springs Multipurpose Building to take a look at the facility. He learned that the Wildcats would be playing their second football game of the season on September 2 at EPSN’s Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida. He decided the Wildcats needed a Texas flag to take with them so everyone in Florida...
Wildcat Freshmen Football Camp Vital This Year
Wildcats Head Football Coach Greg Owens feels this year’s Freshmen Football Camp is an especially important one this year. The incoming ninth graders will lose one week of practice along with all the returning varsity players even though the freshmen didn’t go through spring football in May. The three-day camp started Tuesday and will wrap up Thursday. Coach Owens says the freshmen will get back three days of the five they...
Sports Summer Camps Next Week
Sulphur Springs ISD is offering football and tennis camps next week. Each will have two different sessions daily based on this fall’s student grade level. Wildcat Football Coach Greg Owens will have football camp Tuesday through Thursday in the Multipurpose Building. Boys entering the third through the eighth grades will have camp each day from 8:30 a.m. until 11 a.m. Cost is $45. There will also be a camp for Sulphur Springs...
The Edge Training Ended Thursday
The Edge conditioning program wrapped up its’ six week run Thursday morning in the Multipurpose Building. There were 24 workouts in all. Wildcats Athletic Director Greg Owens said things went pretty well. He said he would have liked to have seen more athletes participate. Coach Owens said most of the guys he would be counting on in football showed up. He admitted being disappointed in some that stayed away. Coach Owens estimated...
Attendance at EDGE Increases
Wildcats Athletic Director and Head Football Coach Greg Owens and his staff were pleasantly surprised Monday when the number of high school athletes attending The Edge conditioning program actually increased. Usually they see a steady decline each week from the first days. There were just over 100 athletes attending Monday including close to 30 girls. Included on the menu Monday were running of six 100-yard dashes with brief rests in...
Wildcats Seek to Earn Funds for Orlando Trip
Fund raising is underway as the Sulphur Springs High School Athletic Department attempts to get varsity and JV players to Orlando, Florida for a football game in early September. When the trip was announced in January, the amount needed for each athlete was estimated to be $1200. Tuesday morning, Wildcats Athletic Director and Football Coach Greg Owens said about 80% of the athletes are right where they should be with fund raising. He...
The Edge Conditioning Program Welcomses 230 Athletes for First Day
Wildcats Football Coach and Athletic Director Greg Owens said 230 athletes turned out for the first day of The Edge conditioning program in the Multipurpose Building Monday morning. He said there were 125 high school boys, 30 high school girls and 75 middle school boys and girls. Coaches had no trouble putting the athletes through drills, exercise and weight lifting indoors while rain fell outside. Coach Owens called the turnout...
Former SSHS Athletes Return to Teach and Coach in SSISD
Two former Sulphur Springs athletes have new positions with the SSISD after they were approved by the School Board Monday night. Former Wildcats soccer player and distance runner Ross Hicks, who has been a PE teacher and coach at the Middle School, has been hired by Athletic Director Greg Owens as the Wildcats Cross Country Coach. Hicks will also be a Wildcats Soccer Assistant Coach and he be a Special Ed teacher at the High School....
SSHS Coaches Offer Youth Sports Camps
Again this summer, the Sulphur Springs ISD will offer sports camps in baseball, softball, basketball, soccer, volleyball, football and tennis. Two camps will be offered next week. Wildcats Baseball Coach Jerrod Hammack will offer baseball hitting camps Monday through Wednesday mornings in the Multipurpose Building. One camp is for youngsters entering first through the third grades and there is another for children entering fourth...
Wildcats Spring Game Features Six Quarters
For those planning to attend the Wildcats first spring football game in over a decade Thursday evening at 6 p.m., Wildcats Football Coach Greg Owens told media members Wednesday what to expect. He said the coaching staff has seen a lot already this spring and has observed tons of improvement. Coach Owens described the game as a finale for spring football and a chance for players to show their parents what they have been doing and how...
