Good Sports: Minarets High School football team off to best start in program history

MINARETS, Calif. (KFSN) -- Minarets High School has a high-powered cultivation program.

But recently, the Mustangs are making immoderate sound connected the shot field.

30 miles northeast of Fresno, you'll find Minarets High School nestled successful the foothills of O'Neal's.

we're trying to marque past astatine a schoolhouse that isn't truly looked astatine for sports," said Jabari Gomez, Mustangs elder RB/SS.

After astir 15 years of losing seasons, the shot squad is disconnected to its champion commencement successful programme past with a cleanable 4-0 record.

'I deliberation our kids person a small spot of a spot connected their shoulder," said Mustangs caput manager Shannon Pulliam.

Coach Pulliam says past play was the program's archetypal and lone winning run astatine conscionable 6-5.

The mustangs are already connected gait to shatter that record.

"When this happens, you know, you ever person the bullseye enactment connected your backmost now, truthful everybody is looking astatine us," Pulliam said.

For the players, designation similar they've ne'er felt.

"Walking astir field winning games it feels good," said Broc Bottcher, Mustangs elder OL.

"The pridefulness successful this area, our administration, activities, kids connected field - it's conscionable risen," Pulliam said.

Much of that emergence connected the tract has been successful the hands of their inferior backmost Torin Wolf.

Wolf is simply a transportation from Buchanan High School successful Clovis.

Through 4 games, the second-year starter leads the Northwest Sequoia League successful touchdowns and passing yards.

"Feel similar we're overlooked oregon not talked astir enough. and arsenic we're beating these schools its chill to get the accolades they've been getting," said Wolf.

The mustangs mightiness besides person the coolest pregame ceremonial successful the valley.

Prior to kickoff, you'll find the school's equestrian squad starring the nationalist anthem.

"Ignites a tone successful the schoolhouse that is peculiar and unique," said Tisch Coffman, the equestrian coach.

"It gets a salute, each helmet salute astatine the end. the full stadium goes chaotic it's amazing."

Before that stadium present stands a winning team.

"We privation to triumph 'em all. I mean that's our anticipation is to triumph each shot game. Whether we bash it oregon not remains to beryllium seen," said Pulliam.

A 10-0 grounds is already connected the players' minds, but becoming the archetypal to ever triumph a rubric would stamp their spot successful Minarets history.

"It would mean everything to the kids and adjacent the radical who are not connected the shot team," Wolf said.

"Like they say, 'You cognize it takes a colony to rise a family.' And well, it takes this assemblage and this colony to crook a programme around," said Pulliam.

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