Texas High School Sports News

As the state semifinals get underway this weekend, here are 10 things to keep an eye out for in the games featuring several of the Dallas-area's top teams.

Lake Travis, the only Austin-area team still playing football, has scored 550 points over its 13 games this season.

Coronado's Brittney Valenzuela, center, fights for control of the ball against Franklin's Laneah Bryan, right, and Amber Williams, bottom, Tuesday night at Franklin.

Matt Stepp of TheOldCoach.com reported on Tuesday that Florence High had hired McQueen to be its next football coach and athletic director.

To mark the end of the 2013 C-USA football season, Miner Rush brings you the final Power Rankings of the season and our Rush Awards honoring the top individual performers of the season.

In HS basketball tonight, the Central Bobcats and Lady Cats return to district action tonight as Central will host Abilene High at Babe Didrickson Gym at Central.

But when the Mustangs came up against a quick-strike, explosive, athletic offense that could match them blow for blow, the grind-it-out method wasn't enough.

The niece of Round Rock coach Diane Watson and a Texas A&M signee, Aiple was named to the Under Armour All-America team during the final season of her standout high school career.

Notable: The junior had 31 carries for 247 yards and four touchdowns in a 56-14 victory against Manvel as the Tigers reached the semifinals for the fourth time since 2007.

Getting fired up Members of Carroll High School's state-bound baseball team huddle up at Cabaniss Field on Wednesday during a community pep rally for the Tigers.

Turns out, the outgoing AD, who's set to retire at the end of the year isn't going out with an easy cakewalk.

On Tuesday, November 26, the JV and varsity Lady Warrior basketball teams traveled to Jasper.

The Colmesneil football and volleyball All-District athletes: Standing left to right: Chris Carr, Taylor Walker, Dylan Falcon, Hayden Langston, Waylon Whitley, Matt Bailey, Justin Fountain, Rodney Fawcett, Hunter Rawls, Tyler Walker, and Richard Barnes; Sitting/Middle, left to right: Kaleb Lindsey, Dalton Davis, Chris Thedford, Garrett Wheat, Cody ... (more)

Howard Prestwood of Horizon High School is the El Paso Times' All-City Cross Country Coach of the Year.

It helps him stay close to patients and those who care for them, said the former Marine and college football lineman who runs the largest not-for-profit health care system in Texas, Baylor Scott & White Health.

Jodie Baggett of Ozona and Katie Stavinoha of The Woodlands were appointed to the Texas Lottery Commission by Gov. Rick Perry Monday, Sept.

Texas A&M pushed the nation's No. 1 team to four sets with a gritty effort, but the Aggies fell to Texas, 25-14, 25-18, 15-25, 25-19, Friday night before a rowdy crowd of 3,831 at Gregory Gym in the second round of the NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Championship.

High School playoffs continued Friday with Thorndale taking on Shiner and Rouse taking on Brennan in quarterfinals games.

SMU is fighting for its postseason lives. Rice has a chance for its first conference title in nearly six decades.

But there will be more work to do when general manager Jon Daniels and his cadre of advisors and scouts assemble at the Walt Disney World Swan & Dolphin Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., on Monday for the Winter Meetings.