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'We finally got the job done'

12/3/2023
Before their crowning achievment on Saturday evening at ASU’s Mountain America Stadium, the current Liberty Lions senior class faced more than their fair share of adversity on the football gridiron.

2023 West Valley Preps football playoff Week 2 …

11/19/2023
Games played Nov. 17 unless otherwise noted Open Division #1 Liberty (10-1) 39 , #8 Chandler Hamilton (7-4) 27 #3 Centennial (10-1) 24, #6 Scottsdale Desert Mountain (9-2) 3 5A …

Liberty defense kick starts offensive machine

10/14/2023
Whatever chance Tucson Salpointe Catholic had of disrupting the precision Liberty football machine went by the wayside early. Liberty senior linebacker Zane Tallman chased junior quarterback Adan Koch-Rodriguez down and the knocked the ball out of his hands. That's all the spark an offense averaging 50 points a game needed.

West Valley Preps' Glendale/Peoria girls volleyball …

9/11/2023
The high school girls volleyball season began Aug. 23 at schools across the state. West Valley Preps and the Peoria Independent and Glendale Independent asked local high school coaches about their …

2023 Preps football preview: Liberty High

8/8/2023
They have to move on from the best season with the worst ending. To hear Liberty’s senior leaders and coach Colin Thomas, the 10-0 season, national ranking and 43-42 Open Division loss

Hunter, Green lead Liberty into 1st basketball Open …

2/8/2023
Liberty boys basketball had just finished its best season in its history in 2021 and was losing eight seniors to graduation. The Lions needed new players, and an incoming star or two wouldn't hurt.

Liberty girls wrestling team crashes national top 10

1/13/2023
Newspapers and web sites have tried to come up with definitive national high school poll for football longer than any other sport. Conversely, girls wrestling is the newest sport with a U.S. ranking, …

Businesslike Liberty football heads back to Open …

11/27/2022
It was not going to happen again in the Open Division. Liberty would not trample O'Connor 50-0 in the first half en route to a 53-0 win like it did Oct. 28. Still, the top-seeded Lions were in complete control of the rematch

My'Keil Gardner becomes elite player, teammate

11/6/2022
It would be easy for a 6-3, 275-pound defensive end verbally committed to one of the top 10 college programs in the country to coast in his senior year of high school football. But it wouldn’t be My’Keil Gardner

Wrestlers take center stage this weekend

2/17/2022
With COVID-19 changing the entire youth sports landscape over the past couple of years -- often on a continual basis -- stability and momentum have been crucial. This weekend, Ironwood and …

Centennial, Liberty girls continue dream seasons

2/13/2022
Both the Centennial and Liberty girls soccer programs have put together their best seasons - if not ever then the best in a long time - this winter. And both Peoria schools had the difficult task …

Liberty basketball boards way through play in

2/12/2022
The shots were not falling like usual for Liberty Friday night, either from behind the three-point line or even the free throw line. Region rival Scottsdale Chaparral was - by and large - keeping its turnovers down and breaking the Lions press.