2023 Lions honored at Mothers Club football banquet

January 29, 2024 at 8:54 pm Updated: January 31st, 2024 at 6:58 am Derrick Stuckly

From left: Offensive MVP Ike Hall with offensive coordinator Dex Dennard; Heather Edmonds Heart of a Lion Award winner Aaron Edmonds with head coach Sammy Burnett; Defensive MVP Stevie Ramirez with defensive coordinator Marvin Wilson.

The 2023 Brownwood Lions football team was honored Monday with the annual banquet hosted by the Lions Mothers Club at the Coggin Avenue Baptist Church Christian Life Center.

The Lions posted a 12-2 record in 2023 and advanced to the Class 4A Division I Region I championship game. Brownwood also repeated as district, bi-district and area champions and advanced to the fourth round of the playoffs for the first time since 2015. The 12 victories were the most for the Lions since 2010.

A total of 90 honors were bestowed upon the 38-player roster from various media outlets since the conclusion of the season.

Among the honors handed out by the Brownwood coaches Monday night, Stevie Ramirez was named Defensive MVP, Ike Hall was chosen as Offensive MVP, and Aaron Edmonds received the first Heather Edmonds Heart of a Lion Award.

Scholarships presented included the Deborah Ellis Memorial to Sam Kallman, the Leslie Adams Memorial to Quinten McCarty, and the Chris Hart Memorial to Zakk Zabecki.