‘Meet the Eagles’ celebrates fall sports

Athletes, faculty, seniors honored
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Isabel Multer and Erica Deutsch • August 19, 2024
Head bowed, senior Tayvin Labbe leads Children's Health Stadium in a closing prayer. This will be Labbe's second year on the varsity football team. "I really wanted to use this prayer to ask God to not only watch over our student athletes," Labbe said, "– but Prosper as a whole."
Head bowed, senior Tayvin Labbe leads Children’s Health Stadium in a closing prayer. This will be Labbe’s second year on the varsity football team. “I really wanted to use this prayer to ask God to not only watch over our student athletes,” Labbe said, “– but Prosper as a whole.”
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Head bowed, senior Tayvin Labbe leads Children's Health Stadium in a closing prayer. This will be Labbe's second year on the varsity football team. "I really wanted to use this prayer to ask God to not only watch over our student athletes," Labbe said, "– but Prosper as a whole."

Click the photo above to start a slideshow with information from the Meet the Eagles event.

Who: Prosper High School fall sports athletes and faculty

What: Meet the Eagles to introduce the fall athletes and celebrate the senior athletes

When: Saturday Aug. 17 at 7:00 p.m.

Where: Children’s Health Stadium

  • Football will play next against Westlake on Aug. 29 at 7 p.m. at Crusader Stadium
  • Volleyball will play next against Rockwell Heath on Aug. 20 at 6:30 p.m. at the PHS Arena
  • Tennis will compete next against Plano East on Aug. 20 at 6 p.m. at Plano East High School
  • Boys Water Polo will play next in the Texas Cup on Aug. 22 at the Lewisville ISD Westside Aquatic Center
  • Girls Water Polo will play next against Highland Park on Aug. 22 at 6 p.m.
  • Cross Country will compete next in the Greenhill Luke’s Locker 6-mile Relay on Aug. 24 at 7:30 a.m. at Norbuck Park

 

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