{"id":215231,"date":"2026-03-22T08:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T08:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/215231\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T08:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T08:31:07","slug":"quarterback-from-texas-powerhouse-transfers-to-mission-viejo-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/215231\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarterback from Texas powerhouse transfers to Mission Viejo \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber.<a href=\"https:\/\/checkout.ocregister.com\/subscriptionpanel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A quarterback from a powerhouse high school football program in Texas has transferred to Mission Viejo, Diablos coach Chad Johnson confirmed Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Nash McElree, a 6-foot-1, 212-pound junior from Aledo in Texas, has enrolled at Mission Viejo, the player and Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p>McElree played three seasons at Aledo, which has won a record 12 state titles in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, McElree competed 63 of 98 passes for 848 yards and 10 touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>He rushed for 203 yards and two scores.<\/p>\n<p>Aledo won its first 14 games before losing to Lone Star 56-52 in the semifinals of the 5A Division 1 state championships.<\/p>\n<p>McElree said he attended San Juan Hills a few months before enrolling at Mission Viejo.<\/p>\n<p>Mission Viejo and San Juan Hills will both be in the Alpha League the next two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>McElree said his family is from California and moved to Texas during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Mission Viejo quarterback Luke Fahey, The Register\u2019s offensive player in the year in 2025, graduated early to enrolled at Ohio State.<\/p>\n<p>Mission Viejo returns quarterback Brett Burnor, who will be a sophomore next season. Burnor (6-1, 200) has been offered by Sacramento State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber.\u00a0Subscribe now A quarterback from a powerhouse high&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3267,84149,586,2291,84150,23153,154,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-215231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-california","tag-dan-albano","tag-high-school-football","tag-high-school-sports","tag-mission-viejo","tag-orange-county","tag-sports","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215231","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=215231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}