Desert Pines High School

Realignment plan could put prep football teams in lower division

But you won’t hear Bennett complain. Sure, the veteran coach wants his team to play at the highest level, proving countless times over the years it belongs among the state’s best. In 2002, for instance, Desert Pines won the Sunrise Region before losing in the state championship game.

But the realignment is about more than football. It’s about all of a school’s athletic programs. And at Desert Pines, those programs struggle — they’d struggle against the likes of Boulder City, too.

“It’s all sports, man,” Bennett said. “It makes sense. It really does. It can’t always be about football. This is going to allow all sports at Desert Pines a chance to compete.”

Desert Pines is proposed to be in the Southern Class 4A Division II, competing against Chaparral , Sunrise Mountain , Tech (which doesn’t field a football team) and the three 3A schools in the East league. Chaparral and second-year Sunrise Mountain combined to win one football game last fall — when Chap beat Sunrise Mountain — and in most years Desert Pines would have no troubles against a less-athletic 3A school.

The formula would be recalculated after two years and allow for schools dominating the Division II, or having troubles in the Division I, to change divisions.

Bennett knows a two-year hiatus could do more than help the athletic department develop. “Once we start winning, the whole school will buy into it,” he said. “It will be great for morale.”

Desert Pines isn’t the lone school with a more-than-respectable football program pegged for relegation. Cheyenne High School, which is widely regarded as one of the state’s top 15 football programs, is also considered for Division II because its other teams struggle.

It is easy to assume Cheyenne and Desert Pines could be playing for the state title. And, because of that chance to win, both teams are finding light at the end of the tunnel with the proposal.

Gorman has won three of the past four state championships, and with young players at several positions, is primed to become a dynasty. Now, there is another title available.

“Forty years down the road, nobody is going to ask how you got that banner,” Cheyenne coach David Cochran said. “They aren’t going to check what league you were in or who you played.”

The average enrollment at a 3A school is 600 students. Desert Pines has 2,300. That’s where coaches and administrators in the 3A have a problem with the proposal.

Police Say Desert Pines Student Arrested For Hitting Teacher ...

Action News has learned police have arrested a 17 - year - old Desert Pines High School student after a fight at the school.

Police told Action News two students were in a fight and the teacher tried to break it up.

Police say that is when the teacher was hit.

The teacher is fine and did not need medical attention.

Police arrested the student for battery on a school district employee.

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