Football powerhouse Celina rises to 3A; big-city schools drop
Published: February 5, 2002
The road back to the top looks fairly daunting for the Celina football program. The roads leading to district rivals are pretty far for DeSoto and Rockwall.It's all part of the University Interscholastic League's biennial realignment, which was announced Monday morning. The painstaking process of rearranging 1,200 schools into districts across 254,000 square miles of Texas inevitably leaves more than a few schools vexed."There will be some that are unhappy and some that are unhappy that just take it and go on, do work with their kids and be positive about it," said UIL Director of Athletics Charles Breithaupt. "We find that those programs that don't worry about what conference they're in, they just go and play, do much better than those that really whine and cry about where they are."For those schools that are really unhappy, there's always a Feb. 13 deadline to notify the UIL of an appeal. But UIL spokesman Peter Contreras said the organization's Austin offices weren't flooded with complaints on Monday. The UIL's latest overhaul saw 33 schools | more from Feb. 5related articlesmost popular |