Lake Havasu's unlikely march into 4A high school football semifinals

In theory, Lake Havasu should be a 4A football power. With 1,881 students, the Knights are able to draw from a larger enrollment than two Open Divi...

December 2, 2022
2:06 AM

In theory, Lake Havasu should be a 4A football power. With 1,881 students, the Knights are able to draw from a larger enrollment than two Open Division schools, Saguaro and ALA-Queen Creek.Among schools in Friday night's 4A semifinals, No. 13-seeded Lake Havasu, which will travel to face No. 1 ALA-Gilbert North, is comfortably the largest.Those numbers, though, belie a larger story.This season, coach Karl Thompson had less than 90 students come out for all three football teams — freshman, JV and varsity.

Theo Mackie