CELINA – Sasha Follett and her 14-year-old daughter shivered beneath the North Texas stadium lights, but the brisk temperatures did not chill the fervor for their beloved Celina Bobcats. At an away game before Thanksgiving, Celina High School fans packed the stands in the team’s trademark orange, dominating the far smaller opposing crowd from Fort Worth.
The top-ranked Celina football team is barrelling toward another state championship this month. If they win, it would be the Bobcats’ 10th state title ever and its second in a row since Bill Elliott was named the district’s athletic director and head high school football coach.