Updates For Several SSHS Sports
Thursday (July 23) KSST reported that The Edge conditioning program came to an end two days early Thursday for football. They will be off until they resume strength, conditioning and skill work in the late afternoon and evening on Monday, August 10. The first day for practice is Monday, September 7. Several other coaches have shared with KSST their plans. Lady Cats Volleyball Coach Bailey Dorner says The Edge is over for her players....
AD Coach Owens Has Filled All Vacancies On Coaching Staffs For This School Year
Wildcats Athletic Director Greg Owens has filled all the vacancies on his coaching staffs that cropped up after the abrupt end of the 2019 school year. Steven Moreno, who was working as an At Risk Aide at the Middle School, is now the Assistant Lady Cats Soccer Coach for Head Coach Javier Aguayo. Coach Moreno, a former Wildcats soccer player, is replacing assistant coach Kristov Martinez, who resigned. Coach Owens has retained all of...
Edge Conditioning Program Is Heading Down The Stretch With Increased Competition
Skill work at SSISD’s The Edge conditioning program began to look a lot more like football Monday, July 13. Wildcats Athletic Director and Head Football Coach Greg Owens said the UIL is now allowing more competition and team drills. Monday the Wildcats did some 7-on-7 work, some 1-on-1 drills and even offense versus defense scheme competition. Coach Owens said the Wildcats’ coaching staff was eager to get started with this...
Former Wildcat Triston Abron’s Mexia Team Picked To Finish Second In Their District
Former Wildcats Football Defensive Coordinator Triston Abron is having a good early career as a head coach since departing Sulphur Springs after the 2017 season to take a head coaching job at Paul Pewitt. Coach Abron spent two seasons there and took the Brahmas to the state final game last season. Since then, he was hired as Mexia’s head coach. Mexia ISD logo The Black Cats are in a five team, District 7-4A, Division II. Dave...
The Edge Concludes Its Third Week Friday
For Sulphur Springs high school and middle school football players, Friday (June 26) marked the end of the third week of this summer’s Edge conditioning program, Wildcats Head Football Coach and Athletic Director Greg Owens said he was pleased with the consistent turnout for his oldest group of incoming 11th and 12th graders and his youngest group of incoming 7th and 8th graders. Friday he said he was disappointed with the...
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...
Coach Owens Says About 300 Athletes Attended First Week of The Edge
Wildcats Athletic Director and Head Football Coach Greg Owens estimates that roughly 300 high school and middle school student athletes attended the first week of The Edge conditioning program. It started Monday (June 8). Football at the Multipurpose Building and Wildcats Basketball in the Main High School Gym had sessions Monday through Friday this week. Others sports had The Edge Monday through Thursday including Lady Cats...
2019 SSHS Hall Of Honor Inductees Honored
Four record-shattering athletes were honored Friday, October 25th, by the Sulphur Springs High School Hall of Honor Committee. Doug Evans emceed the event as family and friends looked on. Past coaches and family members introduced each athlete and described the athletes achievements and records, which some may not ever be bested. Each recipient, truly humbled by the experience, thanked their family and friends, giving credit to that...
2019 SSHS Hall Of Honor Inductees Announced
Two Members of State Champion Football Team Are a Part of New Inductees Into Wildcat Hall of Honor The Wildcat Hall of Honor Selection Committee Chairman, former Wildcat Coach Doug Evans, is announcing Tuesday (October 15) four new inductees into the Wildcat Hall of Honor. Included are Tyrik Rollison and Jace Jackson, part of the Class of 2009 and members of the 2008 football State Championship team. Also selected are Paul Wesley...
Ennis Stays Perfect In District Play, Winning At The Prim, 42-14 Friday Night
The Wildcats Football Team needed their best game of the year to upset Ennis, but couldn’t come up with it in a 42-14 loss to the first place Lions at Gerald Prim Stadium Friday night, Oct. 11. After the Wildcats were forced to punt on their first drive, Ennis wasted no time in scoring. They covered 63 yards in four plays. Huge back Jarius Jones covered the last two yards. Ennis led 7-0 with 9:28 left in the first quarter. The...
