Most athletic programs train during the summer, but this year the Aubrey Chaparrals football program took it to another level with their offensive and defensive linemen competing in the Big Body Business’ 2026 LineMAN Challenge on Saturday.
Aubrey sent 13 linemen to the event hosted at Hardin Simmons University in Abilene, where they competed against 22 other 4A schools and left the event with a Top 10 finish.
“I can’t put into words how proud I was of these guys for deciding we are going to give up their weekend during the summer, travel three hours in the summer, and go compete, but that’s exactly what they did,” Aubrey line coach Derrick Gonzalez said. “We finished tied for seventh out of 23, and we were extremely competitive in every event that we were involved in, with multiple events being less than half a second away from climbing up the leaderboard even more, [and] that’s indicative of the fight and tenacity of this team.”
