{"id":55071,"date":"2025-11-18T20:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T20:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/55071\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T20:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T20:30:07","slug":"plano-east-seniors-sign-on-national-signing-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/55071\/","title":{"rendered":"Plano East seniors sign on National Signing Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plano East seniors, from left, Reagan Noel, Courtney Shults, Simone Heard, Emma Reeves and Chandler Israel each signed a National Letter of Intent on Nov. 12. Photo by David Wolman \/ C&amp;S Media<\/p>\n<p>By David Wolman<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/murphymonitor.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"aad9dac5d8ded9eac9d9c7cfcec3cbdecfd2cbd984c9c5c7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week was the first week of the early signing period for high school seniors across the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Student-athletes from Plano East, Sachse, Wylie and Wylie East put pen to paper and signed a National Letter of Intent with their college of choice, where they will compete in athletics and pursue their academic goals.<\/p>\n<p>Less than 24 hours after outside hitter\u00a0Simone Heard\u00a0and senior setter\u00a0Emma Reeves\u00a0helped lead the\u00a0Plano East\u00a0volleyball team to the fourth round of the playoffs for the first time since 2008, both signed with their colleges. Heard will play for\u00a0Georgia Tech, while Reeves is bound for\u00a0Trinity University.<\/p>\n<p>Heard and Reeves were two of the five Plano East seniors that signed last Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Reagan Noel\u00a0and\u00a0Courtney Shults, who helped lead the Plano East girls cross-country team to their first district title since 2017, signed with\u00a0Dallas Baptist University\u00a0and\u00a0Bethel College, respectively.\u00a0Chandler Israel\u00a0will run cross-country for\u00a0Georgia Southwestern State University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plano East seniors, from left, Reagan Noel, Courtney Shults, Simone Heard, Emma Reeves and Chandler Israel each signed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-55071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-plano","9":"tag-plano-headlines","10":"tag-plano-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55071","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=55071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}