It’s the premier high school athletics event in Arizona.
When Nick and Sa’Veon McCrimon were younger, their father made it well known that if the two wanted to play football, they would have to perform well in the classroom.
High school football programs from all over the East Valley and state have begun the transition from spring to summer, with team workouts on a near daily basis and various 7-on-7 and big man tournaments.
From the moment he stepped onto the field, football coach Roy Lopez Sr. has made a rare kind of impact in just his first year at Desert Ridge.
After a long week of preliminaries, the track and field state championships concluded on Saturday with 19 track events across four divisions.