If you haven’t bought stock in the Fort Stockton cross country program, no better time than the present to invest.
Junior Ali Jackson and senior Fabian Perez are the on-paper favorites to garner district crowns this fall, and the highly decorated duo will be joined by the team’s No. 3 and No. 2 runners from a season ago in Natalie Molinar and Juan Vela.
Fort Stockton’s tennis team made significant progress a season ago under head coach Victor Garcia. They’ll look to build upon that success this season with a group that features a majority of their top athletes from a season ago.
No. 1 girl’s single duo, Athena Gomez and Jaslyn Pacheco, are primed to make a push in the postseason after accomplishing a feat last spring that hadn’t been done in four years.
Fort Stockton was able to accomplish what 40 of Wink’s 47 opponents could not a season ago – take a set from the defending Class 2A state semifinalists.
The Prowlers began their volleyball season at home on Aug. 9 against the Wildcats, who entered the match ranked fourth in 2A according to the Texas Girls Coaches Association preseason poll that was released a week ago.
The first annual Mom's Football 101 took place at Panthers Stadium on Aug. 4. Over 50 mothers of football players participated in the event with their sons.
The Fort Stockton ISD football program and head coach/athletic director Jeremy Hickman will hold the program’s first ever Mom’s Football 101 event this evening.
The reason behind the event – unity and relationship building.
The Fort Stockton volleyball program broke through the proverbial district barrier a season ago under first-year head coach Gabrielle Harral, winning district contests for the first time in five years.
Now the bar moves a notch higher heading into year two of the Harral era.
“The girls kind of know who I am now and it’ll get them to buy into how I run the program,” Harral explained. “I’m so excited for this year because they know what I expect.”
Another one of Fort Stockton’s very own is taking the helm of an athletic program at the high school level.
Fort Stockton native and 1984 FSHS graduate Lea Daggett was named the Fort Stockton head girls basketball coach last week.
Daggett joins head football coach and athletic director Jeremy Hickman as natives of Fort Stockton/FSHS graduates that were hired as head coaches of Fort Stockton High School athletic programs in the past 60 days.
