Basketball has been around for many years. Here at Canyon, our team has had a hard ten years, but coach Manuel Flores has come to Canyon to try and turn it around. 

Coach Manuel Flores has been coaching for 22 years and has recently joined us here at canyon. When becoming a coach, he chose basketball. “I started playing when I was five. I really gravitated to basketball”. 

Some goals he has for his team are to be prepared for life, instilling, cultural values, hard work, communication, dedication, you know, we feel that if we can kind of help in.still those…he basketball aspect will take care of itself, but that’s, kind of my goal as a coach is making sure that they’re well rounded, young men when they leave here and they’re good fathers and good brothers and good sons, so that’s kind of the bigger picture for me.” Coach Flores 

Senior Roman McFall has been playing basketball for four years. Something that motivated him when playing was the thought of winning. A piece of advice that sticks with him from his coaches is that he is not entitled to anything. Something he loves about his team is the brotherhood. 

“It’s like a brotherhood. I know everyone says that, but it really does feel like that was this team,”-Stated Roman

The staff here at Cougar Tracks wishes the basketball team at Canyon an amazing comeback season.