Maddax Mobly, Amaurie Peters Named As Bill Lannom Outstanding Male And Female Athletes Of The Year
The Sulphur High School senior athletes were honored and recognized at the year-end sports’ assembly held last Wednesday at Crossway Church.
The Bill Lannom Athletes of the Year were: male, Maddax Mobly; and female, Amaurie Peters.
Mobly is one of the most accomplished and decorated athletes in the history of Sulphur athletics, according to Sulphur Athletic Director and head football coach, Corey Cole. “Maddax is the best servant leader I have had the pleasure to coach, he is loved and respected by his teammates and opponents for his will to win and desire to make everyone around him better. He is the most dynamic athlete we have ever had but more importantly, he is a better young man that serves as an incredible influence fort he current and future athletes of Sulphur.”
Here are some of Mobly’s accolades throughout his Sulphur career:
•first in Sulphur history to be named football 1st Team Daily Oklahoman All-State;
•1st team Tulsa World All-State;
•OCA All State;
•OCA 3A All-Star;
•Prep Redzone 1st Team All-State;
•4-year starter, starting 50 career games at Sulphur;
•91 career TD’s (school record); •6,741 total all-purpose career yards (school record);
•121 career interceptions (school record);
•2,231 career receiving yards (school record);
•26 career received TD’s (school record);
•3,602 career rushing yards with 58 TD’s;
•318 career tackles,
•10 career interceptions and 7 career fumble recoveries;
•98-26 career wrestling record, 2-time regional champion, state qualifier 3 years, and 3rd place finish in 2025 and 2026;
•4 year starter in baseball with .365 career batting average, 102 career hits, 103 runs.
Following are some of Peters’ career highlights:
•State qualifier in track, a
•AllAll-Conference honorable mention in basketball
•Involved in numerous school organizations.
Jim Nye Fighting Heart Awards The Jim Nye Fighting Heart Awards were presented to Cooper Cole and Landri Oxley.
Cole played football (district defensive lineman of the year), powerlifting (2 time state qualifier and medalist, and was an assistant coach in baseball).
Oxley played slow pitch and fast pitch softball as a 4-year starter.
Academic Athletes Of The Year
Academic Athletes of the year awards went to Brody Wallace, Landy DeArman and Kenleigh Johnson. All three athletes had a 4.0 GPA and ACT Super scores of 30, 31 and 26, respectively.
Wallace was a 3-year starter in football and was District O-Lineman of the Year, wrestling state qualifier and ran track.
DeArman ran cross country, was a wrestling state qualifier, pole vault state qualifier, and medalist.
Johnson was a state qualifier in cheer and also a shot put and discus state qualifier and medalist.
Jim Dixon Bulldog Award The Jim Dixon BulldogAward winners were Colten Cole, Bridge Barrett and Savannah Patrick.
More than 40 seniors received “Letter S” Awards for the various sports they participated in, many in more than one sport. The only 5-sport athlete recognized was Savannah Patrick.
All-State Selections Five Sulphur athletes were recognized for being selected to All-State teams. The athletes selected and the sport are as follows: Colten Cole (football); Maddax Mobly (football), Bridge Barrett (football), Noah Heitland (wrestling), and Jolee Thomas (wrestling).
State Champions
Several students were state champions in various sports and are as follows: Jolee Thomas (wrestling), Parker Wynn (wrestling); Triston Barnes (track/pole vault), Zoli May (powerlifting), Connor Sullivan (powerlifting), and Jason Gleason (powerlifting).
Named as the Male and Female Academic Athletes of the Year at Sulphur High School were, from left, Brody Wallace, Landy DeArman, and Kenleigh Johnson.
Sulphur High School baseball coach, Denton Miller, right was recognized by his peers (18 total coaches) as Coach of the Year for the 2025-26 season. He was presented the award by SHS Athletic Director, Corey Cole, left.
Amaurie Peters, left, and Maddax Mobly were named as the Bill Lannom Outstanding Male and Female Athletes of the Year.
The Jeff Nye Fighting Heart Awards were presented to Cooper Cole, above right, and Landri Oxley, not pictured. Presenting the award was SHS Athletic Director, Corey Cole, left.
Sulphur’s All-State athletes honored at last week’s All-Sports’ Banquet were, from left, Noah Heitland (wrestling), Maddax Mobly (football), Colten Cole (football), and Jolee Thomas (wrestling).
SHS State Champion Athletes were recognized at last week’s All-Sports Assembly. They are, from left, Jolee Thomas (wrestling), Connor Sullivan (powerlifting, and Triston Barnes (track - pole vault). Not pictured is Jason Gleason (powerlifting).
The Jim Dixon Scholarship winners were recognized at the SHS All-Sports Assembly last week. They are, from left, Cooper Cole, and Colten Cole, and Grady Hardoin, fourth from left. Also pictured are Dixon’s son, Reggie Dixon, third from left, his wife, Mary Alice Dixon, and daughter-in-law, Kim Dixon.
College Letters Of Intent
Sulphur had 14 athletes sign letters of intent, one behind the previous record of 15 signees last year.
Athletes who signed, the college, and sport are as follows: Kale Brakefield, Northwestern (football); Bridge Barrett, Northwestern (football); Colten Cole, Rice (football); Maddax Mobly, U.S. Naval Academy (football); Landri Oxley, NCTC (softball); Jolee Thomas, Oklahoma State (wrestling); Noah Heitland, Murray State (wrestling); Triston Barnes, Murray State (wrestling); Lola Freeman, OBU (cheer); Savannah Patrick, ECU (cheer); Grady Hardoin, ECU (track); Landy DeArman, ECU (track); Zak Kirk, Murray State (cross country), and Robin Mayo, Murray State (cross country).
New Awards
Two new awards were added to the list this year.
Several Sulphur coaches were recognized and received awards for their season accomplishments. They included girl’s softball coach Heath Gilbert with over 300 career wins; boy’s basketball coach Grant Bates was named OCA All-State Basketball Coach; Connor Webb was named OCA All-State Boy’s Wrestling Coach as well as OCA Girl’s Wrestling Coach of the Year; David Gilliam was recognized as Region 5 District Representative 8 in the state; and Sulphur football coaches were named Football Coaching Staff of the Year.
Coach Of The Year
A new “Coach of the Year” award selected by the staff of 18 coaches was presented to baseball coach Denton Miller. Miller led the baseball team to a 30-win season and made the Class 4A Super Regionals, only one game away from the state tournament. Miller also coaches the wide receivers and defensive backs in football, and is special teams’ coordinator for the football team.
The other new award was to “Team of the Year” selected by the coaching staff and that award went to the state runner-up football team.
Notable Teams & Individuals This Season
Below is a run down of notable teams and individuals in each sport and year end finish: Cross Country-boys and girls teams qualified for state, both were regional runner-up; cheer team was state qualifier, 5th at state; football team went 13-1, winning district champions, regional champions, area champions, state runner-up, and academic all-state champions; boy’s basketball won district champions/area tournament qualifier; boys wrestling won district champs, dual state qualifier, 7 state qualifiers, academic state champions; girls wrestling won 2 state champions, and finished 5th in state with 3 qualifiers; girls powerlifting won regional and state champions, Zoli May state champion, Madelynn McClure and Addy Hardoin state runner-up, and 8 qualifiers; boys powerlifting won regional and state champions with 16 qualifiers, 2 individual state champions, one state runner-up and 6 medalists; girls golf team was state qualifier with one state medalist, Jordan Johnson; girls track - 7 state qualifiers; boys track -12 state qualifiers, Grady Hardoin state runner-up 110 hurdles, Morgan Brown 3rd in 3200-meter run, several medalist in other event, finished 5th in state; and baseball-regional champions, 30 wins (most since 2005).
