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Rebel Road: Inside Midland Legacy's Tour of Texas
The Midland Legacy Rebels have played six of their first seven games at least two hours away. But Coach Clint Hartman says they're better for the journey.
Steven Ortiz is the head athletic trainer at Midland Legacy High School, but physical rehabilitation plans aren’t the only thing he maps out. Ortiz also fixes the team’s travel schedule - from the time they leave to where they get food - for all the Rebels’ road games.
When he first saw Midland Legacy’s 2025 football schedule, which included a more than two-hour bus ride for six of the first seven games, Ortiz wondered what he’d done to piss off head coach Clint Hartman.
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