Super Bowl champion Tory Horton returns home to alma mater Washington Union

A shin wounded kept Horton from playing successful Super Bowl LX but helium was a large contributor erstwhile helium was connected the tract this year.

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- After riding done Seattle successful the Super Bowl parade connected Wednesday, Tory Horton backmost successful the Valley and celebrated astatine Washington Union High School Thursday afternoon.

"I'm blessed and fortunate to beryllium connected a large squad and it's a blessing to get [a Super Bowl title] my rookie year," Horton told Action News. "I'm bare for much and I cognize my teammates are too, truthful I'm excited."

A shin wounded kept Horton from playing successful Super Bowl LX but helium was a large contributor erstwhile helium was connected the field.

In his 8 games, the rookie wide receiver pulled successful 5 touchdowns and returned different connected punt return.

"You imagination arsenic a kid to ever spell to the Super Bowl and adjacent if you're not playing you inactive privation to beryllium successful that atmosphere," Horton said.

A 2020 postgraduate from Washington Union, Horton started his precocious schoolhouse vocation astatine Edison earlier turning to the Panthers for his elder campaign.

"A batch of guys thin to instrumentality disconnected and ne'er travel back. I wanted to beryllium the feline to look backmost and retrieve wherever I came from."

As the 166th wide prime successful the 2025 NFL Draft, Horton spoke to today's Panthers astir his travel to football's biggest stage.

"From a municipality similar this, it's inactive imaginable to spell retired determination and pursuit your dreams," Horton said. "I conscionable wanted to travel backmost aft the Super Bowl and marque definite I wage my tribute to wherever I started."

Although Horton is the archetypal Washington Union alum to play successful the NFL, he's not the lone 1 to triumph nonrecreational hardware for the school.

Track and tract jock Maxie Parks won an Olympic golden medal successful the 1969 Summer Olympics. And erstwhile NBA first-round prime DeShawn Stevenson was a portion of the 2011 championship-winning Dallas Mavericks.