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#Family matters: MP hosts annual football camp

#Family matters: MP hosts annual football camp

#Family matters: MP hosts annual football camp

Quinten Boyd
Tuesday, July 12, 2022
Approximately 80 players took part in the annual Mount Pleasant football camp. Coaches for the camp, which ran through Wednesday afternoon, were MPHS athletic director Joe Cluley, his staff and a number of Tiger football players.
Alexa Arzate (#2), Bianca Aguillon (#3) and the Harts Bluff Lady Bulldogs will be a part of District 16-2A in basketball next season -- the school’s first UIL basketball district.

Alexa Arzate (#2), Bianca Aguillon (#3) and the Harts Bluff Lady Bulldogs will be a part of District 16-2A in basketball next season -- the school’s first UIL basketball district.

District dissertations: Harts Bluff, Rivercrest part of intriguing hardwood district

Quinten Boyd
Friday, July 8, 2022
Every two years, UIL schools go through the biannual redistricting process, where some schools switch classifications and receive new neighbors in their districts. Most of the attention is placed on the new football districts.

Tiger football camp next week

Quinten Boyd
Friday, July 8, 2022
The Mount Pleasant football program is doing its part to build up the “#Family.” The annual Mount Pleasant Tiger Youth Football Camp will take place from 1-3 p.m. July 11-13 at Sam Parker Field. The camp is for kindergarten-eighth grade students.
Harland Johns was recently named athletic director at Harts Bluff Early College High School. He is pictured with his wife, Ezri, a pre-kindergarten teacher at Harts Bluff. COURTESY PHOTO / THREE BIRDS PHOTOGRAPHY

Harland Johns was recently named athletic director at Harts Bluff Early College High School. He is pictured with his wife, Ezri, a pre-kindergarten teacher at Harts Bluff. COURTESY PHOTO / THREE BIRDS PHOTOGRAPHY

Top dog: Johns named athletic director at Harts Bluff

Quinten Boyd
Friday, July 8, 2022
Despite growing up in Leesburg and attending Pittsburg ISD, Harland Johns admitted that when he was younger, he hadn’t heard of Harts Bluff. “With them being solely a junior high and a smaller school, we never played them at Pittsburg, so it took me a while to know it was around,” he said.
The Mount Pleasant Lady Tiger volleyball team will contend in a revamped District 15-5A with Hallsville, Longview, Marshall, Pine Tree, Texas High and new additions Tyler High and Whitehouse. TRIBUNE PHOTO / QUINTEN BOYD

The Mount Pleasant Lady Tiger volleyball team will contend in a revamped District 15-5A with Hallsville, Longview, Marshall, Pine Tree, Texas High and new additions Tyler High and Whitehouse. TRIBUNE PHOTO / QUINTEN BOYD

District dissertations: MP loses 1, gains 2 new district opponents

Quinten Boyd
Friday, July 1, 2022
Every two years, UIL schools go through the biannual redistricting process, where some schools switch classifications and receive new neighbors in their districts. Most of the attention is placed on the new football districts.
Texas Football picked the Mount Pleasant Tigers to finish third in District 8-5A Div. II behind Texas High and Marshall but ahead of Nacogdoches, Pine Tree, Hallsville and Whitehouse.

Texas Football picked the Mount Pleasant Tigers to finish third in District 8-5A Div. II behind Texas High and Marshall but ahead of Nacogdoches, Pine Tree, Hallsville and Whitehouse.

Texas Football tabs Tigers, Brahmas, Rebels for playoff berths this season

Quinten Boyd
Tuesday, June 28, 2022
The annual unofficial start of football season has arrived with the recent release of Dave Campbell’s Texas Football as mail subscribers have started to receive their copies.
Coach Cluley

Coach Cluley

Cluley named MPISD athletic director

Quinten Boyd
Friday, June 24, 2022
Mount Pleasant athletics will have a new leader in 2022. MPISD announced this week that head football coach and assistant athletic director Joe Cluley will take over as the district athletic director for the upcoming school year.
Coach Engra Patt-Mason and the Pewitt Lady Brahmas will look to return to the playoffs in an unchanged District 14-3A after a fourth place finish last season. TRIBUNE PHOTO / QUINTEN BOYD

Coach Engra Patt-Mason and the Pewitt Lady Brahmas will look to return to the playoffs in an unchanged District 14-3A after a fourth place finish last season. TRIBUNE PHOTO / QUINTEN BOYD

District dissertations: Lady Brahmas vie for return to playoffs in ‘new’ district

Quinten Boyd
Friday, June 24, 2022
Every two years, UIL schools go through the biannual redistricting process, where some schools switch classifications and receive new neighbors in their districts. Most of the attention is placed on the new football districts.
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