High School
No matter Friday's outcome, Millsap and City View head coaches have already won
Millsap Bulldogs' Jacob Johnson and Wichita Falls City View Mustangs' Heath Aldrich have fought through cancer diagnoses together, and formed a bond like steel.

Jacob Johnson is a mountain of a man with a personality somehow larger than his physical presence. With his black sleeves cut off, the Millsap head coach looks like a college strength coach - and behaves like it, too.
The final boss of Millsap’s August afternoon practice is a three-man blocking sled, which the already-exhausted players push up, down, and around the grass field, switching out when the coaches’ whistle blows. Every third whistle, Johnson taps a kid out, gets in a three-point stance, and drives it about twice as far in the same amount of time it took the players.
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