Area athletes gear up for fall sports season

Published 9:00 pm Friday, August 2, 2024

Fall Sports Media Day Thursday at the CHRISTUS Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Institute. (Michel Alfaro/Tyler Morning Telegraph)

High school football and volleyball teams across the state will begin practices on Monday.

To get ready for the upcoming fall sports season, local high school and volleyball teams, along with college football, volleyball and soccer teams, gathered on Thursday at the CHRISTUS Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Institute for a fall sports media day.



High school football teams in attendance were Van, Tyler High, Palestine Westwood, West Rusk, Mineola, Chapel Hill, Hawkins, Tyler Legacy, Winona, Lindale, Brook Hill, All Saints, Bishop Gorman, Grace Community, Whitehouse, Brownsboro and Tyler HEAT.

High school volleyball teams in attendance were Palestine Westwood, Tyler High, Mineola, Chapel Hill, Tyler Legacy, Winona, Lindale, All Saints, Bishop Gorman, Grace Community, Brook Hill, Cumberland Academy, Whitehouse, Van, Rusk, Brownsboro, West Rusk, Hawkins and Tyler HEAT.

The football and volleyball teams for Texas College and the football, men’s soccer and women’s soccer teams from Tyler Junior College were also represented.

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Athletes in attendance on Thursday were Callie Schmidt, Reagan Hope and Addison Ridge of Lindale volleyball; Hudson LeGrow, Seth Baggett and Chad Ward of Lindale football; Jon Denman, Kaysn Dial, Leonard Sandifer and Boston Anderson of Palestine Westwood football; Addyson Nettles, Brylee Mitchell and Lyla Huddleston of Palestine Westwood volleyball; Gracie McCown, Ava Kozlovsky, Alyjia Katon and Aubrey Hassell of Rusk volleyball; Alicia Monzon, Averi Crouch, Mahayla McKinney and Kayla White of Van volleyball; Wyatt Dale, Jaxon Moffatt, Justus Anderson and Austin Moffatt of Van football; Luke McNeel, Cam Ryle, Tyler Vining and Samuel Williams of Brook Hill football; Hadleigh Clark, Brettlee Bellar and Julianna Mize of Brook Hill volleyball; David Reyes, Javaryon Brumsey and Blaine Harris of Mineola football; Mahayla McMahon, Trinadee Jackson and Olivia Hughes of Mineola volleyball; Samuel Tillman, Jake Brewer, Jonathan Fisher and Grant Timpe of Tyler HEAT football; Anaya Peel, Jolie Carlile and Isabelle Stuebing of Tyler HEAT volleyball; Kalyn Ellison, Alaya Scoggins, Abby McQueen and Taetum Smith of Hawkins volleyball; Troy Conley, Eli Smith and Miguel Acatitlan of Hawkins football; Micah Strickland and Bralen Kirkpatrick of Brownsboro football; Maddie Hood and Tiykeah McKenzie of Brownsboro volleyball; Cassandra Hernandez, Kairee Timmons and Karyn Gordon of Winona volleyball; Josh Rice, DK Decker and Jordan Pullum of Winona football; Bella Mata, Keke Murphy and Carlie Buckner of West Rusk volleyball; Jase Reasoner, Judson Dotson, Cole Jackson and Hunter McCandless of West Rusk football; Kassidy Meyer, Ashley Rhame, Ella Reese, Kate Flanagan and Emerson Hurley of Whitehouse volleyball; Nic Boone, McCade Stinson, JT Williams and Konnor McCoy of Grace Community football; Gracie Jewell, Aubrey Felton, Parker Estes and Keely Bozeman of Grace Community volleyball; David Phillips, Curtis Barlow, Cody Carter, Sean O’Neill and Andrew Mugleston of Bishop Gorman football; Teresa Hall, Rose Favre, Kate Cleofe and Sayo Ifafore of Bishop Gorman volleyball; Hugo Debenham and Noe Robles of Tyler Junior College men’s soccer; Gabby Thompson, Saki Tsuchiya, Kyleigh D’Spain and Jenna Barnes of Tyler Junior College women’s soccer; Nathaniel Kirksey, Jadaelyn Jackson, Cash Acker and Simeon Garner of Tyler Legacy football; Lexie Correa, Londen Whelchel, Kate Moore and Kinzie Parks of Tyler Legacy volleyball; Nicole Sharp, Jessica Barroso, Skarleth Cervantes, Kelci Zelaya and Caroline Kinsley of Cumberland Academy volleyball; Kaelyn McLean, Latajia Hambrick, Jazlynn Duran and Esmeralda Lozano of Tyler High volleyball; Joseph Young, D’Canaan Sueing, Keondre Powers and D’Crystian Sueing of Tyler High football; Ceci Torres, Kayla DeCampos and Kennedy Wood of All Saints volleyball; Sawyer Buske and Manny Mizer of All Saints football; Carneecia Johnson, Kerra Moore-Eubanks, Kendyl Riordan and Clara Brown of Chapel Hill volleyball; Keldrick Davis, Tyrell Gause, Jonah Riordan and Demetrius Brisbon of Chapel Hill football; Layne Hooker, Johnathan Bush, Hudson Barron and Tyler LaCombe of Whitehouse football; Kristen Stewart and Briana Johnson of Texas College volleyball; Ja’Quan McGee, Hawk Patrick-Daniels, Sam Fongang and Emmanuel Oguns of Tyler Junior College football; and Christopher Norman, Gauge Jordan, Bryant Ma’Alaelu and Dustyn Thomas Jr. of Texas College football.

High school football teams in Class 4A and below or Class 5A and 6A schools that didn’t participate in spring football can begin practice on Monday, Aug. 5. Class 5A and 6A schools that did participate in spring football will begin practice on Aug. 12. High school volleyball teams can begin practice on Monday, Aug. 5.

Look for more from Thursday’s media day about the teams in attendance leading up to the season in the Tyler Morning Telegraph and on tylerpaper.com.