Arizona High School Football News

Tyler Moreno and Everett McKinney pose with Shamrocks coach Rhett Stallworth as they sign their letters of intent to play football at Graceland University in Lamoni, IA at Yuma Catholic High School on May 24.

Nick Dooley lowers his 6-foot-7, 290-pound frame, grabs the football in his huge hand and rifles it between his legs 15 yards back to the punter.

As we draw closer to the top of the 100 Day Sun Devil Countdown and the start of the 2012 season, we take a look at one of the most exciting recent moments that did not happen on a football field: D.J. Foster picks Arizona State .

On the final day of Saguaro's spring football practice last Thursday, Devin Brunetti toed the line of scrimmage as 90 of his closest friends looked on.

Bradshaw Mountain's Tyler Audsley will play football for Peru State College, while Prescott High's Kiersten Graber will join the University of Washington's gymnastics team in the fall.

A new era for Kingman Academy football and the Charter Athletic Association begins this fall when the league starts an 11-man football division.

But when the Arizona Interscholastic Association spit football schedules out of a computer last year with the intent on saving gas money, it set off an alarm from one corner of the state to the other.

It was a year of rival schools resurrecting bad blood, coaching changes for obvious and head-scratching reasons, kids setting records, dynasties being formed and stopped, and the passing of an East Valley coaching institution.

First-year Chino Valley head football coach Chuck Apap instructs his players from the sideline during a spring football practice at Chino Valley High School Thursday.

Scottsdale Notre Dame's community wanted to continue to sing Scot Bemis' praises, but it didn't know when to start again.

The Prescott High football team's offense runs a play in the spread option formation against the Badgers' defense during 2012 spring drills Thursday afternoon at Bill Shepard Field.

Weight training and conditioning in the off season has paid off as the Chino Valley High School Cougar squad entered into spring training this past week.

AGWildcatReport: Sean Miller makes it clear Solomon Hill won't play the 4 at all next season .

Ten practices into its 2012 spring drills Tuesday at Bob Pavlich Field, the Bradshaw Mountain High football team seems to be making steady strides under first-year coach Adam Schiermyer.

It takes a village, or in this case a neighborhood. Next-door neighbor Randy Stringfellow is a retired Scottsdale police sergeant, an all-around great guy and a night owl, which we all appreciate because he's always on the lookout for anything suspicious.

Aaron Goodman and Daniela Radvak, both seniors at Chaparral High School, are Arizona's two U.S. Presidential Scholars for 2012.

Sultzbach is a freshman at Mesa Preparatory Academy, which had been scheduled to play Our Lady of Sorrows Academy in tonight's Arizona Charter Athletic Association state championship at Phoenix College.

Running back J.J. Husar, who left Chandler Basha at mid-year, is starting his first week of spring football with Mesa Desert Ridge.

Kyle Allen is 16. In the last few weeks he has called football coaches at Princeton, Arizona State, Washington and Penn State.

A framed picture hangs on the wall in the football office at Mesa Mountain View, plainly visible to anybody who walks through the door.