The Canadian Wildcat Booster Club and CHS Spirit Club are sponsoring a Spirit Parade for Homecoming on Wednesday, September 6, at 6:30 pm. The route will begin at the Hemphill County Courthouse, continue up 6th Street, and end at the newly christened Chris Koetting Field.
School board trustees voted Tuesday evening to name the field at Wildcat Stadium in honor of Canadian’s head football coach and athletic director Chris Koetting.
Koetting announced his retirement at the end of the 2022-23 school year, citing health issues that have affected his cognitive abilities, and his desire to spend more time with his family.
AMARILLO – Panhandle Breast Health (PBH) will host the Third Annual Tee Off for Tatas Golf Tournament beginning at 1 p.m. Sept. 17 at Comanche Trail Golf Course. The fee for a 4-person team is $500. All proceeds benefit PBH’s life-saving mission of decreasing breast cancer deaths by increasing mammography rates.
Canadian senior-to-be Luke Flowers is making the most of his time in the best way possible during the summer.
While most high school athletes travel on vacation or do summer camps, Flowers has spent the majority of his days giving back to the youth of Canadian through his first ever Way of the Wildcat Leadership and Skills Football Camp.
Canadian Lady Cats Softball Coach Cay Parnell this week reported several honors awarded to her players and announced at the close of the school year after playoffs ended. Sophomore Lilly Bradford was named All-District First Team infielder, and earned Honorable Mention on the Amarillo Globe-News Super Team. Four Lady Cats earned slots on the All-District Second Team: Senior Leah Moreno as pitcher, Junior Kenzie Flowers as catcher, and Freshman Shyann Blair and Junior Miranda Nunez as outfielders. Moreno also earned honors on the Academic All-State team.
Just-retired Canadian High School Athletic Director Chris Koetting will be honored as the 201st inductee into the 65th Annual Texas Panhandle Sports Hall of Fame. A ceremony will be held at 2 pm on Sunday, June 11, at the Grand Plaza of the Amarillo Civic Center.
The following honors were presented to Canadian High School students in Monday night’s annual Athletic Awards Banquet, which was attended by an estimated 300 guests.
The year’s top awards went to Ella Walser, who received the Fighting Heart trophy, and Corbin Throgmorton, winner of the Fightingest Wildcat trophy. Brooklyn Cochran and Preston Miller were honored as Best All-Around Athletes, and Berkley Beedy and Trace Mitchell were celebrated as the Most Courageous Wildcat and Lady Cat.
Canadian’s Wildcat Junior Football League threw a two-day All-Star Academy Friday and Saturday at Wildcat Stadium that attracted boys and girls from all over the Panhandle. The budding young athletes performed a variety of strengthening and conditioning drills under the watchful eyes of volunteer coaches and Canadian Varsity football players. By the grins we saw on most of their faces, and the spirited encouragement of the coaching staff, we would guess the event was a grand success.
What’s Up Next for Canadian Wildcats, Lady Cats
▪Round 2 of the District 1-3A Golf Tournament is underway today at Amarillo’s Ross Rogers Golf Course.
▪CHS tennis teams are competing in the Regional Qualifier Tournament at Amarillo today
The Canadian Wildcats and Lady Cats swept their competitors last week in the District 1-3A meet held at Amarillo’s Tascosa High School. The Varsity and Junior Varsity boys and girls teams simply dominated the overall team championships: Canadian’s Varsity players piled up 71 team points over Spearman’s 22 and Dalhart’s 12, while the Junior Varsity boys and girls collected a total of 71 points versus Spearman’s 20 and Dalhart’s 19.
