{"id":227831,"date":"2026-03-31T01:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T01:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/227831\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T01:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T01:18:07","slug":"abernathys-ryan-hillis-signs-to-play-football-at-friends-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/227831\/","title":{"rendered":"Abernathy\u2019s Ryan Hillis signs to play football at Friends University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ABERNATHY, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; After starting as one of the top defensive players for Abernathy, senior Ryan Hillis has officially signed to play for Friends University in Wichita, Kan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI\u2019m super happy, I\u2019m just ready to go on with the next step in life and see where it goes. I have a few friends down there, I\u2019ve been there a couple of times. I love the coaching staff, and their defense matches me too, so it all works out!\u201d he said, while giving credit to the people in his hometown. \u201cWithout Abernathy here, I couldn\u2019t be where I am. The love and support from this community is just amazing.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Other Antelope signees include: <\/p>\n<p>Lacy Bloskas, track &amp; field- West Texas A&amp;M Emme Easterwood, basketball- Wayland Baptist <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Be sure to stay on KCBD\u2019s End Zone App for all of the high school football news throughout the offseason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ABERNATHY, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; After starting as one of the top defensive players for Abernathy, senior Ryan Hillis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[592,43817,88130,88129,88131,586,88132,168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-227831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-2a-football","9":"tag-abernathy","10":"tag-abernathy-antelopes","11":"tag-abernathy-texas","12":"tag-friends-unversity","13":"tag-high-school-football","14":"tag-high-school-signings","15":"tag-lubbock","16":"tag-lubbock-headlines","17":"tag-lubbock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227831","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=227831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}