SWEETWATER — If there is one player on the Sweetwater football roster who may best exemplify the long-term growth of coach Russell Lucas’ program, it may very well be senior running back-linebacker Korda Moore. 

Moore, who now enters his fourth varsity season, has been through every high and every low of Lucas’ tenure, from the 8-4 in 2021, to the freshman-heavy 1-9 a year later, to last season’s 7-5 mark. 

Moore has been in the center of all of it. 

“When (Lucas) first got here, everyone was shaky and nervous about it because we had a new coach and a whole new coaching staff,” Moore said. “But once we started to trust what he was saying the program started to change.” 

And with Sweetwater expected to be one of the top Class 3A teams in the Big Country this year, Moore begins his final season at SHS as one of the area’s top athletes in Lucas’ first group of fourth-year players.