SSISD Sports Summer Camps Set
Sulphur Springs ISD Athletic Director Greg Owens released the schedule for athletic sports camps coming up this summer on Friday. Camps begin the first full week of June with softball and baseball camps. Lady Cats Softball Coach David Carrillo’s Softball Camp is June 4-6 and the Wildcats Baseball Coach Jerrod Hammack’s Baseball Hitting Camp is June 5-7. The following week Lady Cats Basketball Coach Jeff Chapman will have...
Reneau Signs with Austin College
Wildcats’ football inside linebacker Jaxon Reneau signed a letter of intent Friday to play college football at Austin College in Sherman. Reneau said Kangaroos’ assistant football coach Joe Morgan visited Sulphur Springs and met with several Wildcats’ football players. Reneau said Coach Morgan called him back later and asked hium to take an official visit. Reneau visited the Sherman campus and he said he liked it, He...
Owens Calls New Alignment for SSHS Sports Exciting
“We are excited about the new places and new faces,” said SSHS Athletic Director and Football Head Coach Gregg Owens as the new district alignments were announced Thursday morning. Owens said, “It will be a new challenge with new teams, but the biggest challenge [for football] will be the nine (9) team district.” He said a team must win a lot of games to get in the playoffs. “It’s really exciting because it’s different,” he said....
SSHS Hosts Powerlifting Meet Saturday
This year’s Sulphur Springs Powerlifting Meet at the Multipurpose Building Saturday (January 13) could be a huge one. Wildcats Powerlifting Coach Casey Jeter said there might be as many as 500 lifters competing including 100 to 150 girls. Coach Jeter said that would make this meet the largest in the state except for the state meet. Weigh in begins at 6:30 a.m. until 8:30 a.m. Saturday. The first lifters should get started at 9...
SSHS Marching Band, Jazz Band Perform at Veteran-Related Events This Week
Members of the Wildcats Marching Band will be busy at veteran-related events this week. The Jazz Band will play at the annual Wal-Mart salute to veterans at League Street Church of Christ Monday night. The band will also be involved in the Sulphur Springs High School reception and assembly for veterans Friday starting at noon. The assembly begins at 1 p.m. Band Director Charles McCauley said some band members would be serving as color...
Special Sports Day for SSISD, Rains ISD, and Como-Pickton CISD at SSHS Gym Friday
About one hundred special needs kids attended the annual Special Sports Day in the Sulphur Springs High School Main Gym Friday. Rains ISD and the Como-Pickton CISD sent students. There were also SSISD, students participating from Lamar Primary, Sulphur Springs Elementary, Douglas Intermediate, the Middle School and the High School. During opening ceremonies, there was a parade of athletes, singing of the National Anthem, pledges to...
Texas High Visits Prim With New Head Coach
The Wildcats take on the Texas High Tigers Friday night at Prim Stadium. The first year head football coach of Texas High is Gerry Stanford and he has some very big shoes to fill. He replaces long time Tigers head coach Barry Norton, who moved across town and across the border to Arkansas High. Stanford came to Texas High from Flower Mound Marcus where he was the head coach. Before that Stanford had a very good run as head coach of...
Former Wildcat Player/Assistant Coach Follows Former Wildcat at McKinney Job
Former Wildcat soccer player and former Wildcat assistant soccer coach Colby Peak has been selected as the new head soccer coach at McKinney Boyd. Coach Peak has been at Mesquite Poteet since 2011 after leaving Sulphur Springs. A Peak coached Mesquite Poteet team downed the Wildcats in a fourth round playoff match in 2013. Coack Peak will be replacing former Wildcat player Casey Osborn at McKinney Boyd. Coach Osborn, who has coached...
The EDGE for Middle School Athletes
For a second year, the Sulphur Springs Athletic Department is offering The Edge for middle school athletes. It is a four week program taking place Monday through Thursday from 9:30 a.m. until 10:30 a.m. each day until July 6. It began on June 12. The Edge for middle school athletes does not have endurance work like gassers, hill climbing and 100 yard dashes featuring in The Edge for high school athletes. It’s focus is more on...
Local Sports Camps Preview: Baseball, Softball June 6-9
There will be two Sulphur Springs ISD youth sports camps coming up next week. Wildcats Baseball Coach Jerrod Hammack will be offering his Baseball Hitting Camp next Tuesday through Thursday in the Multipurpose Building. There will be baseball camp for students entering first through the third grades from 9 a.m. until 10:30 a.m. each day. Then there will be camp for those entering the fourth through the ninth grades running each day...
