The Uvalde Coyotes will face a formidable pre-district high school football schedule in 2025. Three of their four opponents advanced to post-season playoff competition last year, including Carrizo Springs, Hondo, and Crystal City, who all were eliminated in the bi-district round. In the 2024 season opener, the Coyotes beat the Carrizo Springs Wildcats, 13-8, in the Honey Bowl in a […]
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Booster club awards four scholarships
The Uvalde Athletic Booster Club presented scholarship awards to four 2025 Uvalde High School graduates at the July 9 meeting of the club. Victoria Martinez and Jaxon Parker each received a $2,000 scholarship, Natalie Ramos was presented with a $1,500 scholarship, while Ashlynn Aguero was the recipient of a $1,500 scholarship. UABC secretary Cheryl Sanchez presented the awards to Martinez, […]

Uvalde youth football camp scheduled July 22-24
The Uvalde youth football camp is scheduled to be conducted on July 22-24 at the Uvalde High School soccer complex. Uvalde High School head football coach Wade Miller and his staff will instruct the camp for incoming first-graders up to incoming ninth-graders. The three-day football camp will run from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. daily at the UHS soccer complex. […]

Tennis practice scheduled to begin July 28 at UHS
Two weeks from tomorrow, July 28, pre-season practice for the Uvalde High School 2025 team tennis season is scheduled to begin. An intra-squad tennis scrimmage is set for Aug. 1, while the first regular-season action of the season for the Coyotes and the Lobos is slated for Aug. 5 when they are scheduled to host the San Antonio Davenport Wolves […]

Strength-and-conditioning program runs through July 31
The strength and conditioning program for Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District athletes is underway. Open to incoming seventh-grade up to incoming 12th-grade boys and girls, the program runs from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Mondays through Thursdays at Uvalde High School. Supervised by UCISD coaches, the program puts prospective Uvalde athletes for the 2025-26 school year through a variety […]

UCISD launches 2025-26 Stuff the Bus drive
Uvalde CISD’s annual Stuff the Bus school supply drive is underway, with donations directly benefiting local students, said UCISD director of recovery services Katie Hughes. Now through July 31, community members can drop off items like pencils, crayons, notebooks, and backpacks at participating locations, including Uvalde Together Resiliency Center, Uvalde Memorial Hospital, El Progreso Memorial Library, Medina Electric Cooperative, First […]

UYRC schedules open rodeo
FREE Sports editorThe Uvalde Youth Rodeo Club’s 62nd-annual open youth rodeo is set for Saturday, July 19, with events beginning at 9 a.m. in the Uvalde County Arena at the Fairplex. Youth competitors will take part in a full slate of rodeo events, including dummy roping, cloverleaf barrels, double mugging, tie-down roping, straight barrels, poles, ribbon roping, goat tying, team roping, and […]

Uvalde Fourth of July golf classic dies for lack of interest
The Uvalde Fourth of July golf tournament is officially dead. For the second time since 2020, the tournament was canceled. Back in 2020, the event was not held because of the coronavirus pandemic. But this past week, the tournament was not conducted for the first time because of a lack of tourney entries. The deadline for entries was June 30. […]

Golfers mourn lost tradition after tourney canceled
Longtime players are mourning the loss of a Uvalde tradition after this year’s Fourth of July golf tournament was canceled – a rare break in the event’s legacy that began in 1948. The 2025 tournament, scheduled for July 4-6, was called off after only 22 golfers registered, well below the 50-player minimum needed to keep the event financially viable. Edward […]

Uvalde youth softball camp scheduled July 15-17
The Uvalde youth softball camp is scheduled to be conducted on July 15-17 at the Uvalde High School softball field. Open to incoming Uvalde fourth-graders up to incoming ninth-graders, the camp will run from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on each of the three days. UHS head softball coach EJ McNamara and members of his coaching staff, including Michael Liarakos […]