This year the varsity football team finished the regular season with the school’s first perfect record and a District 13-4A Championship.

For many of the seniors, it was the second time they had finished the regular season undefeated, pulling off the same feat freshman year.

“The best memory from freshman year would be going undefeated, 10-0, and this year is winning District Champion,” senior Slayton Shiels said.

Moving from 3A to 4A this year, the Leopards were frequently the underdog.  But it’s a role many seniors are used to.

“Freshman year we went 10-0 like we are this year, and we had a big game last year against Plano Shepton and we were picked to lose and we ended up winning,” senior Guy Roecher said. “This year going undefeated is kind of like a flashback to freshman year, playing Wylie East and winning, because we were picked to lose that game too.”

Going farther in the playoffs would have made for a nice epilogue, but despite a loss in the second round, the season is a perfect bookend to what was started three years ago.
“From freshman year the best moment was beating Shepton by 14 points,” senior Thomas Kotecki said.  “That set us to a point where we were 10-0 for our freshman year and now that it’s senior year and we’ve beaten Wylie East, so going back to freshman year we started 10-0 and now we’ve finished 10-0.”