Crowded pickleball courts are a testament to the popularity of a sport that has taken many communities by storm. A 2023 report from the Sports & Fitness Industry Association indicates just under nine million people played pickleball in 2022, which marked a stunning 159 percent increase in participation over just a three-year period.
O.H. Ivie continued its hot streak with four more massive Legacy Class Share-Lunkers in the span of four days. O.H. Ivie has now produced 10 Legacy Class entries, and this quartet of fish bumped the state total to 17 during the 2024 Toyota ShareLunker collection season.
Logan Rice (left) and his dad Lawrance Rice with their drone hovering in the background, about to scout a distant field for wild hogs.
WITH LUKE CLAYTON
Brad McDonald Inducted into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
ANDRE MORELAND Football SAGU
JACOB NAVARRO Football SAGU
JOSH ONUORAH Football SAGU
JAYLON WASHINGTON Football SAGU
Spring 2024 Crandall ISD College Signings
The Forney High School Highsteppers Dance team recently competed at the 2024 National Dance Alliance (NDA) Nationals in Orlando, Florida and won several trophies and awards.
The annual white bass run, a treasured tradition for anglers across Texas, has officially begun.
Medalists for Forney, North Forney, & Crandall Men 100m Dash: 2nd Place North Forney Aamii Branch 11.18 Women 100m Dash:
ANDREW ANDERSON Football West Texas A&M University
RYAN FAULK Football Sul Ross State University
KENDRICK JONES Football Colorado Mesa University
ZYCHAEL DAVIS Football Sul Ross State University
DYLAN GRAY Football Southeastern Oklahoma State University
TOMMY MCLAUGHLIN Football SAGU
Spring 2024 Crandall ISD Athletics National Signing Day
Three anglers at three separate lakes caught Legacy Class ShareLunkers to kickstart the second month of the 2024 Toyota ShareLunker collection season. It was the 13th time in program history that anglers submitted three or more Legacy Class largemouth bass in a single day. This is the first triple lunker day since the 2021 collection season when the feat was accomplished twice.
The Texas Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame committee is pleased to announce, “Pond Boss” Bob Lusk of Granbury, Texas will be inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2024.
TRISTAN BENNETT Football UNT
ELI BENAVIDES Baseball SAGU
AAMII BRANCH Football Kilgore College
KLOE BROWN Soccer Vassar College
EMMA CHANEY Cheer SFA
KYLE CRAWFORD Football Texas Wesleyan
KOFI EDUFUL Football Army
JOSH GATLIN Football Harding
DILLON GLASPER Football Independence College
RYAN HUFFMAN Baseball Oklahoma Wesleyan
ISAIAH MAYFIELD Football Arkansas Tech
MADISON MAYHALL Soccer Bluefield State Unv.
DAVID PAINE JR. Football University of Nevada
CAIDEN ROBERTS Football Lyon College
LUKE RODRIGUEZ Football TAMU-Commerce
MIA SANTOS Volleyball UMHB
DREW SWINT Baseball Ranger College
SAMANTHA WOJTOWICZ Volleyball Arkansas Tech
Spring 2024 Forney ISD Athletics National Signing Day
O.H. Ivie Reservoir continued its reign as a top largemouth bass lake in the world recently when it produced not one but two Legacy Class ShareLunkers. The entries were the second and third overall of the 2024 Toyota ShareLunker collection season following J.B. Thomas Reservoir’s first ever Legacy Class lunker.
It’s a long time until opening day of deer season. Why should deer hunters enjoy only one ‘opening day’ each year? Luke is packed and ready to head out to a west Texas deer hunt with his friends Larry Weishuhn and Jeff Rice for a very late season deer hunt.
IT’S OPENING DAY….AGAIN!
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 936, Forney, TX 75126
Physical Address: 201 W. Broad St., Forney, TX 75126
Phone: 972-564-3121
Fax: 972-552-3599
