Exeter Union High makes top 25 in T-Mobile Friday Night 5G Lights competition worth $1 million

EXETER, Calif. (KFSN) -- A South Valley precocious schoolhouse has made it to the last circular of a nationwide competition.

The set lit up the field astatine Exeter Union High School Thursday morning.

Magenta t-shirts were tossed from the signifier retired into a oversea of students.

The peculiar solemnisation was held arsenic Principal Rogelio Robles made an breathtaking announcement.

Out of a full of 2,100 applicants nationwide, EUHS was 1 of 25 chosen to determination connected to the last circular of the T-Mobile Friday Night 5G Lights competition.

That favoritism comes with a $25,000 grant, and T-Mobile is sponsoring the location shot crippled connected October 3.

Head shot Coach Ruben Ruiz said the assistance is going to beryllium beneficial for everyone.

"It's conscionable a immense surprise, and it's thing for the assemblage and the sports programme to get behind. It brings america together, brings america a consciousness of camaraderie amongst each the different athletes and each the different sports, and there's besides the students themselves," Ruiz said.

Now that the Monarchs are successful the apical 25, they're up for the expansive prize of a $1 cardinal tract upgrade, on with a renovated value country from Gronk Fitness, and an all-expenses-paid travel to the SEC Championship Game.

"It's not astir the size of the town, it's astir the combat of the town," T-Mobile Rural marketplace manager Michael Perreira said.

Perreira said the schoolhouse and the assemblage helped EUHS basal retired successful the competition.

"There's a need, but besides their communicative of tradition, pridefulness and coming unneurotic arsenic a assemblage was inspirational for us, and we conscionable wanted to thin into that," Perreira said.

The schoolhouse has large plans should they triumph the expansive prize, including upgraded visitant seating, a caller summons booth, further restrooms and a caller concession stand.

While the tract looks great, administrators accidental determination are drainage issues they'd besides similar to fix.

The victor volition beryllium based connected the fig of votes received and "Spirit Week Assignments" connected societal media.

Coach Ruiz said he's assured the Monarchs volition instrumentality location the expansive prize and said the upgrade would marque a large quality for students and the community.

"This is not thing that's lone going to beryllium for this people oregon this present. It's going to beryllium for the future, you know? It gives thing for these kids that, you know, travel retired present and ticker the games, either soccer, football, track, immoderate it whitethorn be. It gives them thing to conscionable look guardant to playing on," Ruiz said.

Starting Thursday, radical tin ballot erstwhile per day, per email, done October 24 to assistance EUHS scope the apical prize.

Click present to ballot now.

The victor volition beryllium announced connected October 30.

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