Flower Mound High School - Athletics

Athletics

Flower Mound High School is a 5A school, competing as part of the UIL in District 8-5A, the classification for schools with the largest enrollment. Its main rival is Marcus High School, the school FMHS plays against annually in the Mound Showdown. Other schools in the district are Lewisville High School, Hebron High School, Plano Senior, East, and West High Schools, and Allen High School. The main sports the Jaguars compete in include football, boys and girls soccer, boys and girls basketball, baseball, cross country, golf, hockey(although not school-sponsored), softball, tennis, swimming, track, volleyball, bowling, and wrestling. In the 2006–2007 school year, every athletic team at the school advanced to playoffs, with several winning the District title.

In 2004, the Flower Mound High School baseball program, under head Coach Derek Matlock, competed for the state championship but fell a bit short in the final game. Flower Mound's senior Dusten Adams was the only run scored for the Flower Mound Team in their 8–1 loss to those Corpus Christi Moody. That same year, 3 members of the baseball squad were drafted by MLB. Craig Italiano (Athletics), Paul kelly (Twins) and Jordan Meaker (Diamondbacks). The 2008 Jags baseball team advanced to the Class 5A Regional Finals in 2008, losing to Southlake Carroll. In 2008 boys' basketball, the Jaguars advanced to the Regional Quarterfinals, the furthest they had ever advanced, before losing to Colleyville Heritage. 2006 was the first year for the Jaguar Football program to reach playoffs; unfortunately, Flower Mound had lost to Grapevine High School. In 2007, the Jags again advanced to playoffs, but lost in the first round to defending Class 5A State Champions Carroll Senior High School. In 2009, They were in the Playoffs, but once again had lost its place against Southlake Caroll(formally known as Carroll Senior High School). The football team has not made the playoffs since. The 2008 Lady Jags softball team advanced to the Regional Semifinals, where they lost to Weatherford High School. In 2008, the school's male swim team placed second at the UIL Class 5A State Swimming and Diving Championships held in Austin, the highest finish ever for any LISD school.

The Jaguar Cross Country team is arguably one the most successful program at the school. Both the boys and girls teams placed top 10 in the state in 2009 and had similar, if not, better results in 2010. In 2011, the girls placed third a state. The boys placed 2nd in the state in 2005. In Track and Field, in April 2010 Senior Connor Adams won the 1600m state title. Connor is still to this day the only male athlete to ever win a state championship from Flower Mound High School. The Flower Mound Wrestling Team has been a district power for many years, but was the UIL State Runner up for two years in a row in 2010 and 2011. Dylan Akers and Drake Dudley were both individual State Champions in 2011.