New 2a Power In Making: Mesquite Sunnyvale

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New 2A power in making: Mesquite Sunnyvale

by Dave McNabb

Tue, Jun 19, 2007, 09:31 AM

The fallout from May's election _ at least in North Texas sports terms _ is the creation of a potential Class 2A athletic power capable of having the same kind of success Celina enjoys.

Mesquite Sunnyvale High School was approved and is hiring coaches. Mike Krone is athletic director and football coach while Tim Arden has been named baseball coach.

Krone has been running a spread offense at the Sunnyvale Middle School and will have a ninth grade team in '07, a junior varsity in '08 and a varsity for the '09 season. Sunnyvale, whose athletes have gone to high school and North Mesquite and Poteet in the MISD, will petition the UIL to be included for the next realignment beginning in '08.

Arden, a former assistant under Tommy Sigler at North Mesquite, has been head coach at Krum the last three years. Former Mesquite Poteet coach Ted Nowell was the leading candidate to coach Sunnyvale but wasn't tabbed as the new coach. Nowell lives in Sunnyvale and his oldest son Teddy Nowell led Poteet to the Class 4A state final. Nowell also has a younger son, Beau, who is a right-handed pitcher and standout quarterback.

Sunnyvale projects its enrollment to stay in Class 2A for several years and it will have the same athletic and academic demographics that has helped Celina dominate in 2A and then reach the 3A state football final last year. Sunnyvale athletes, like Celina's, grow up competing against the highest level of Class 5A and 4A athletes around North Texas youth sports and that makes for a great transition when competing with lower UIL classifications.

[Coach]

Who is the coach at Krum now?

[UNTLifer]

Who is the coach at Krum now?

Evidently nobody has been hired yet.

Denton Record Chronicle Article.