After a UIL reclassification last month, the Varsity Football team is now in 5A Division 2 District 7 and will be facing a new set of teams for the upcoming fall season. 

“We are most excited to play some new teams that weren’t in our district,” Coach Scott Loy said. “We have some really good teams in our district, but we fully expect to go and win the district.”

Current fan favorites like the cross-town rival game against Summit will no longer be played.

“We lost to them twice, so I’m hurt we don’t play them again,” junior Ngoh Fortem said. “But it is an easier district than last year. We can win and go far.” 

New match-ups will include schools such as Joshua, Midlothian Heritage and Ennis High Schools. 

“I think our games against Midlothian Heritage for the next two years will be really good for our team,” Loy said. “It will be a good district challenge for us.” 

However, some match-ups will continue like the match up against Juan Seguin High School.

“It is also exciting to keep Arlington Seguin in our district, as that game has become a good rivalry game for our team,” Loy said.

Other sports in 5A District 8 like Varsity Basketball included only one team change that added Legacy High School and removed Everman. 

“Adding Legacy is good for MISD,” Basketball Coach Matthew Workman said. “It brings back that small rivalry we used to have. We are young and hungry and will play hard.”

Workman said the campus will now be the smallest school in district 8-5A.

“We will be Division II if blessed enough to make the playoffs,” Workman said. “We have a super young team coming back with only three returning varsity players but we are young and hungry. We will play hard.”