The scores from Friday night’s action are below: Socorro 8, Ysleta 35 – Final Andress 30, Franklin 20 – Final Del Valle 20, Americas 28 – Final Montwood 42, Burges 28 – Final Eastlake 59, Parkland 25 – 2nd quarter Coronado 16, Chapin 10 – Final Iraan 6, Anthony 48 – Final Clint 61, El
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas – Thursday night saw the return of high school football in El Paso. A season unlike any other as athletes took to the field for the first time during a pandemic. While the game on the field was the same, the atmosphere around it was completely different. Fans were limited to just
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Independent School District will allow fans in the stands when high school football games begin on Oct. 1, the district announced Monday. All games will have limited stadium seating to allow for social distancing and fans will be required to wear face masks at all times, officials said.
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EL PASO, Texas – Cathedral High School has cancelled its first two games of the 2020 football season. Sources confirmed to ABC-7 that the reason was because of a positive case of COVID-19 at the private school. Cathedral was supposed to play a football game at Mountain View High School this Friday. Mountain View will
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso Independent School District Superintendent Juan Cabrera was recently photographed not wearing a face mask while sitting next to his daughter at a 3-team volleyball scrimmage at Franklin High School, that also involved El Paso and Canutillo high schools, raising the hackles of parents who are not allowed to attend athletic
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Independent School District’s El Paso High Tigers cancelled their volleyball game against the Ysleta Independent School District’s Eastwood Troopers on Tuesday due to fans being allowed in the stands. EPISD said it has implemented a policy due to the pandemic that prohibits fans from going to their athletic
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SANTA TERESA, New Mexico — 26 students on the volleyball team at Santa Teresa High School are being required to quarantine after a coach at the school tested positive for Covid-19 Tuesday, officials with the Gadsden Independent School District announced. “The coach reported not feeling well after the first day of practice Monday and went to
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EL PASO, Texas – It’s tough enough for high school volleyball teams to prepare for a season, but it’s even tougher when that season is being played during a pandemic. Friday, the high school volleyball season officially began in El Paso. It was a day many thought would never come because of the concerns over
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ANTHONY, Texas (KVIA) — After just more than a month of virtual practices, Anthony Independent School District fall sports teams are practicing in person again. Those teams include football, volleyball and cross country. Those practices, however, do not look like they used to. Players must wear masks while in practice and are encouraged to distance
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EL PASO, Texas – High school sports teams returned to in-person practices on Tuesday. In this age of COVID-19, safety is the number one priority. All summer long high school student-athletes remained uncertain whether there would even be a season. Another step forward was taken on Tuesday when schools opened up to allow students to
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso student athletes are back in action. The University Interscholastic League set Tuesday as the date to resume athletic practices. As practices resumed, there were guidelines in place to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Students and coaches all do a self screening at home. Before entering practice, all temperatures
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WASHINGTON, DC — El Paso native and NFL rookie quarterback Steven Montez has been waived by the Washington Football Team (formerly known as the Redskins), failing to secure a spot on the roster, according to a report Saturday from The Washington Post. After going undrafted in the 2020 NFL Draft, Montez had signed a free
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – Jerry Duffey certainly loves his job because it involves the two things he loves to do, teach and fence. While most athletes learn a sport at an early age, Duffey didn’t learn how to fence until he entered college. Duffey was born and raised in Las Cruces and graduated from
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EL PASO, Texas – Aaron Dumas may not know for sure if there will be a 2020 high school football season, but he knows for sure where he will be playing in 2021. The star Americas (HS) running back committed to New Mexico today via his twitter page, marking a huge coup for first-year coach
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — El Paso native Steven Montez has no doubt in his arm strength. And despite not being selected in the 2020 NFL Draft, he’ll tell you it beats every player who was picked ahead of him. “I mean I’ve thrown with a lot of these quarterbacks,” says Montez of his arm strength.
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EL PASO, Texas – Treyvon Hughes couldn’t get enough of the El Paso gridiron in four year playing for the UTEP Miners. So he’s starting his career on a similar track, coaching running backs at Mont High School School. Hughes was named an assistant coach for the Rams on Monday, specializing in the position he
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The University Interscholastic League (UIL) released new guidelines which postpone the start of fall sports for the two largest conferences across the state. The new guidelines directly apply to the 5A and 6A conferences in the state, which will affect most schools in the El Paso region. High school football
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EL PASO, Texas — A meeting of the UIL (University Interscholastic League) Monday could decide the fate of fall high school sports. The governing body for Texas public high school athletics is expected to meet Monday regarding a plan for fall athletics in the state. The UIL has yet to come forward with a concrete
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EL PASO, Texas — This week’s Community Champions are the floorball team from Hanks High School. Community Champions is sponsored by Albertsons and the El Paso Community Foundation. The team recently found out that they will be headed to Kazan, Russia to compete in the Special Olympics World Winter Games. The games were going to
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ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico – The New Mexico Activities Association (NMAA) remains confident that there will be high school sports next school year. Wednesday, the NMAA released its amended sports calendar for 2020-2021. After New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham announced that contact sports in the fall would not be allowed, the NMAA decided to move
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EL PASO, Texas — James McClain Green III doesn’t take life for granted. He made a vow that nothing was going to get in the way of the sport that he loves, wrestling. Green’s journey has been a fight every step of the way, but now the recent Franklin High School graduate is ready to
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EL PASO, Texas — It seems a cloud of smoke has been covering the start of this year’s high school football season in El Paso. On Thursday morning, an order from the local Health Authority may have cleared that up. The order directed at public and private schools in El Paso County specifically states that
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EL PASO, Texas — The San Elizario community was in mourning Monday following the unexpected death of high school assistant football, baseball and basketball coach Guillermo ‘Will’ Cazares. He died Sunday at the age of 36. Cazares was also the physical education coach at Garcia Enriquez Middle School in San Elizario. Our thoughts and prayers
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EL PASO, Texas — For Jacob Ontiveros, no obstacle was too much to overcome. The recent graduate of El Paso High School is headed to Trinity University in San Antonio on an athletic scholarship. Ontiveros was on the cross country team as well as the track and field team. He helped lead the Tigers to
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SOCORRO, Texas — All athletic programs in the Socorro Independent School District are being suspended until July 10, officials announced Wednesday, as they also disclosed that two high school student athletes had just tested positive for Covid-19. One of the students was from Montwood and the other from Americas, SISD athletic director JJ Calderon confirmed
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Guidelines for a return to play for summer workouts in Las Cruces has been extended LCPS implemented district-wide safety protocols back on June 22 for football, soccer, volleyball and cross country. Following the latest information from the governor’s office to mitigate the spread of Covid-19, the addition of indoor sports, along with
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EL PASO, Texas – Athletes are missing out on their seasons, but also for a chance to put up numbers. If you’re trying impress college scouts, that hurts. But no fear, because El Paso-area baseball facility Beimel Elite Athletics is bringing it you virtually through HitTrax, a high-tech ball simulator. Just like in a regular
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EL PASO, Texas — Amid the growing cases of Covid-19 in the city, El Paso High School is suspending all football, volleyball, and cheer workouts effective immediately. No member of the El Paso High athletic community has tested positive or showed symptoms of Covid-19, but Athletic Coordinator and Head Football Coach Ray Aguilar Jr. is
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — The Ysleta Independent School District has suspended its summer strength camp and conditioning program for student athletes for at least for a couple of weeks as two coaches at high schools in the district have now been diagnosed with coronavirus. The district made the workout suspension announcement Saturday after officials there
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Athletic Hall of Fame will soon welcome in 8 new members. On Wednesday, the class of 2020 was announced with athletes from various sports such as football, golf, even pro wrestling. The 2020 Class is as follows: (Living Athlete Category) Ernie Bautista, TrackJohn ‘Rocky’ Coppinger, BaseballMonica Townsend, Golf
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