{"id":176478,"date":"2026-02-23T13:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T13:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/176478\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T13:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T13:56:11","slug":"lubbock-cooper-libertys-colton-bichard-is-football-player-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/176478\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock-Cooper Liberty&#8217;s Colton Bichard is football player of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 23, 2026, 4:05 a.m. CT<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">WOODROW \u2014 Colton Bichard watched from the sideline as Lubbock-Cooper Liberty&#8217;s postseason possibility faded away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Patriots quarterback broke his collarbone in the penultimate district game and missed the 2024 finale against Levelland that determined the league&#8217;s final playoff spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">It was a bitter ending to Liberty&#8217;s maiden season, but coach Joe Sexton saw Bichard return with a fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 23, 2026, 4:05 a.m. CT WOODROW \u2014 Colton Bichard watched from the sideline as Lubbock-Cooper Liberty&#8217;s postseason&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[203,168,170,169,175,176,44,184,46,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-176478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-accessmetered","9":"tag-lubbock","10":"tag-lubbock-headlines","11":"tag-lubbock-news","12":"tag-sstssportshigh-school","13":"tag-sstsnhigh-school","14":"tag-tagamerican-football","15":"tag-tagoverall-positive","16":"tag-tagsports-news","17":"tag-typestory"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}