08/23/2026
Everything is bigger in Texas — including the road trips.
We asked about some of the longest trips Texas high school teams have made for games, and the answers were pretty incredible.
Seminole to Presidio — 4½ hours for baseball.
Seminole to Clint — over 4 hours for football.
Coahoma to Anthony — 377 miles ONE WAY for a district game.
Eldorado to Anthony — 401 miles
Christoval to Fort Hancock — 353 miles
Refugio to Monte Alto — 322 miles
One family recalled San Jacinto Christian in Amarillo having El Paso in its football district — 437 miles each way.
And how about Abilene to El Paso — 450 miles on a yellow school bus for a DISTRICT volleyball match.Not a charter bus. A yellow school bus — with a governor on it.
Another incredible example: Sonora to Anthony — 458 miles ONE WAY, crossing into a different time zone and turning the trip into essentially a 24-hour adventure
Rockport-Fulton families are looking at more than 1,200 miles of travel across five away games with their new district, according to one parent.
Another person remembered an Amarillo team making a 345-mile one-way trip to the Metroplex THREE different times in district play — and doing it for two years in both volleyball and basketball.
And when Anthony brought football back several years ago, one commenter recalled the program playing its first season without home games, including a trip of roughly 400 miles to Eldorado.
Think about that for a second.
These aren't playoff games at a neutral site.
Some of these are DISTRICT games.
Leave school early. Load the bus. Drive for four, five, six or more hours. Stop somewhere to eat. Get taped. Warm up. Compete.
Then load everything back up and do it all over again going home.
Sometimes you're pulling into the school parking lot in the middle of the night.
And a few hours later?
The alarm goes off and you're expected to be sitting in class.
And it isn't just the athletes.
Coaches. Managers. Trainers. Cheerleaders. Bands. Bus drivers. Administrators.
Then there are the parents who get off work, fill up the tank and follow that yellow bus for hundreds of miles just so their kid can look into the stands and see Mom and Dad sitting there.
One Amarillo parent told us there was a time she was driving around 3,000 miles A MONTH just trying to keep up with her children's activities.
That's Texas high school athletics.
The scoreboard tells you who won the game.
It doesn't tell you what it took just to get there.
Those miles don't appear in the standings.
Those late-night bus rides aren't listed in the box score.
But they're absolutely part of the story.
LONG MILES. STRONG KIDS. PROUD TEXAS SCHOOLS.
Different places. Same passion. ❤️
