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It wasn’t the outcome Canadian fans or fans across the Texas Panhandle saw coming for the Wildcat football team at Bushland last Friday. For the second straight year, Bushland left Canadian stunned.

The Canadian boys cross-country team had an outstanding outing at the Borger Cross-Country Meet last Saturday. The varsity Wildcats finished in second place out of 21 teams, with Dumas claiming a team-first.

It was the exact start to the 2022 football season that Head Coach Chris Koetting and his team wanted to see.

Canadian’s cross-country teams opened the 2022 season by picking up where they left off last year, with impressive showings at the Canyon 6-Mile Relay Chicken Run on Saturday.

In a dominating season debut Thursday evening, the Wildcat junior varsity removed all suspense in a productive first half, churning out two touchdowns in the first quarter, four in the second quarter, and one for good measure in the third, while denying Sunray access to their end zone all evening.

By Record Sportswriter Kale Steed A 9-4 season and a run to the third round of the playoffs sounds like a fantastic year for most football programs across the state of Texas. For the Canadian Wildcats, many might consider that a setback.

The definition of a motto is a sentence, phrase, or word inscribed on something as appropriate to or indicative of its character or use. For decades now, the tradition-rich Canadian Wildcat football program has lived by its motto, chosen by the team’s senior captains each summer.