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Ford High School Weekly

Ford High School Weekly

Ford High School Weekly is a behind-the-scenes glimpse into players, coaches, and administrators making high school athletics such a phenomenon in Oklahoma.

2021 Oklahoma High School Football Preview with Deion Imade

Deion Imade, Ford High School Weekly

Deion Imade covers the Jenks Preview and he's joined by Michael Knight from Prep Redzone Oklahoma. They cover 6A I, 6A II and preview Friday's Ford Game of the Week as Sapulpa visits Sand Springs in the Highway 97 Rivalry.

Sapulpa Renews Rivalry With Season Opener Against Sand Springs

Sapulpa Chieftains. Sapulpa High School

They say you can’t go home again, but Sapulpa head football coach Tim Holt, Jr., is out to prove that adage wrong. Holt grew up in Sapulpa and was the head coach at Coweta and an assistant at Broken Arrow before returning to Tulsa’s west side this year to take over the Chieftain program. “You always wonder about coming back to...

Southmoore Football Learning Life Lessons On & Off the Field

Southmoore SaberCats

When Southmoore head coach Joshua Norman took over the SaberCat football program two years ago, he wanted to provide his players with an experience that allowed them to achieve success on the field as well as in the classroom and the community. The former OU and NFL standout does this with what he calls The Three C’s – Character, Community...

Bartlesville Super Soph David Castillo Top Oklahoma Hoop Prospect

Bartlesville's David Castillo is currently ranked number 11 nationally among high school basketball players in the class of 2024. He models his game after his older brother and a recent Oklahoma hoop legend, Trae Young from Norman North who plays for the Atlanta Hawks. David has recently been named to USA Basketball Men's Under 16 National Team. The team...

Vype Oklahoma’s Austin Chadwick Talks About High School Football

Austin Chadwick

Austin Chadwick, owner and publisher of Vype Oklahoma magazine talks college football conference realignment, rule changes regarding the name, image, and likeness for college athletes, and details the VYPE preseason high school football, Pigskin Edition.

Marquee Matchups Highlight 2021 Ford Game Of The Week Schedule

jenks vs union

A showdown between Oklahoma’s defending 6A-I and 6A-II state champions highlights YurView’s 2021 Ford High School Football Game of the Week television schedule, which was released earlier this week. On Friday, September 3rd, the Jenks Trojans play host to the Bixby Spartans in one of the most anticipated games of the regular season. The two prep powerhouses met last season,...

Kingfisher Hoops Duo Go Out On Top at OCA All-State

Kingfisher's Bijan Cortes, coach Jared Reese and Matthew Stone

  Kingfisher hoopsters Bijan Cortes and Matthew Stone have played together for so long, they know what the other is going to do on the court. Such was the case last week when the duo took part in the large-class Oklahoma Coaches Association All-State basketball game at Frank Herald Field House at Jenks High School. Late in the game, a member of...

Future TU Teammates Square Off in All-State Shootout

Crawford & Poindexter, TU Hurricanes

Former Sapulpa star Temira Poindexter held the ball at the top of the key. She dribbled left and drove the lane. The only thing between her and the basket was former Piedmont guard and current University of Tulsa teammate Delanie Crawford. The two met in mid-air, and Crawford got the better of the matchup, as the two collided and the...

Gentry Williams Fast on the Field and on the Track

Gentry Williams of Tulsa's Booker T. Washington is back for his senior year after injury kept him off the field as a junior. He started running track at the age of 6, played a variety of sports and eventually focused on football and track. 247 Sports rates Gentry as the number 1 football recruiting prospect in the state. He...

Oklahoma Home To Youngest High School Football Coach In The Country

Kathen Funburg, Prue High School

When 21-year-old Kathen Funburg was named head coach of Prue (OK) High School’s eight-man football team this summer, little did he know that he may now be the answer to a trivia question. Funburg may be the youngest high school football head coach EVER. According to research done by High School Football America in 2020, the youngest high school head football...