- I have not heard from Emily in couple months.

From the looks of it, I don't think that she's doing the applications.

I don't really know.

- Youth sports is still sidelined.

- Football season was supposed to be right now.

They're planning for us to go back in January.

I'm really hoping that plan is what we stick to.

- I miss my team.

I miss hearing my coach tell me and Ebei to stop goofing off and get back to the dance routine and stuff.

I miss that.

- To get a scholarship, you have to be seen.

You have to be watched, and if you're not playing, you don't get the same kind of evaluation, and they don't get those college opportunities.

- Friends lighting candles and hanging balloons tonight to pay tribute to Reuben Lewis.

- He was more than a basketball coach.

Like, I looked up to him like a big brother.

It's hard-- I don't know what to say.

[somber music] - Free!

Yeah!

[soft dramatic pop music] [ball bouncing] - Got it.

- [grunts] Backboard.

[groans] Hey.

That ain't it.

[grunts] Oh!

[laughing] - ♪ My pain, all the stuff I go through every day ♪ ♪ I tried tellin' them I'm on my way ♪ - I was gonna say it's been a while, bro.

Haven't played basketball a long time.

Thank you.

Last time I shot on an actual court, probably... ♪ ♪ [sighs] It's been at least a year, obviously, 'cause of quarantine.

Oh.

- Proving my point there.

- [laughs] Me and Damani played against each other in high school.

He went to Antioch High.

The same city rivalry.

- The better school.

- Not the better program though.

Yeah?

Nice shot.

[laughs] - ♪ I tell 'em be who you are ♪ ♪ Cause who you are makes you great ♪ ♪ Ain't nothing better than that ♪ ♪ You're special in your own ways ♪ - Couldn't even get-- - That's the rim.

That's not even me.

- ♪ Really love what you doin' ♪ ♪ You gotta be working for progress ♪ ♪ And I swear all the rest will come to you ♪ - How's it feel?

- Feels good.

I made sure to land on this one.

- He was smart.

- Yeah, I don't think I'm-- I don't think I'm going to dunk again.

- Ever again?

- I think that-- think those days are over.

- Nah, you just gotta rehab.

You gotta go hard.

- I know.

I don't know if I want to rehab.

- I'll do it with you, and then that'll make me be able to jump.

That's the funny part.

That's one thing that sucks about the pandemic, having all the free time but can't do what you want.

- I know.

Yep.

Now I think about it, my whole family had it.

Your whole family had it.

That's literally our whole family.

Like, everybody in our family has had it.

I didn't even think about that until right now.

- Yeah.

- That's crazy.

[sighs] I'm ready to get back to real life.

I feel like we're in a simulation.

- A bad one at that.

- Give me some time.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Ooh.

- I played with two messed up knees in high school.

You can play with them messed up though.

- Feels good.

[Daveed Diggs's "Night Time"] [upbeat music] ♪ ♪ - ♪ Work all day till my feet get sore ♪ ♪ Keep on working till the whistle blow ♪ ♪ Oh, when the nighttime come ♪ ♪ It's on when the nighttime come ♪ ♪ Wear this mask on my face all day ♪ ♪ Smiling like I'm loving doing what you say ♪ ♪ Oh, till the nighttime come ♪ ♪ It's on when the nighttime come ♪ ♪ Wear this mask on my face all day ♪ ♪ Smiling like I'm loving doing what you say ♪ ♪ Oh, till the nighttime come ♪ ♪ It's on when the nighttime come ♪ ♪ It ain't really over, it has just begun ♪ ♪ We going to be all right when the nighttime come ♪ ♪ Tired of trying to figure what I might become ♪ ♪ I just want to sing my song when the nighttime come ♪ [school bell rings] [keyboards clacking] [computers chiming] - Oh, there we go, finally.

[computer chiming melodically] - Can y'all see my screen?

- Yeah, it's good.

- Good morning, everybody.

- Hello.

- I see Jordan.

- Hi.

- Javonte.

- Hi.

- All right, cool.

Hope everybody is doing well.

So in the chat, for me, just give me a one word.

Tell me how you're feeling this morning.

[computers chiming] So I see tired.

I see meh.

Good.

Thank you, Raven.

Pretty tired.

Good.

Tired, hungry.

I'm feeling that one too.

OK, good, fine, tired, sleepy.

Tired, tired, tired, tired, tired.

For sure.

No, I'm definitely with y'all.

[soft dramatic music] School was supposed to go back in January.

♪ ♪ We're still closed.

And we're gonna be closed till at least April.

Um... so other places in the country are, you know, open.

- Xavier College Prep High School students return to campus today for in-person learning.

- Oldham County Schools are planning to welcome their students back in-person on Monday, January 11th.

- Local school systems are making their own decisions on how to move forward with classes.

- Small groups can resume on-campus learning and activities starting today.

- But Antioch has been closed since March of last year.

It's been almost a full year now.

You can be tired.

You can be drained.

It can be... That's a lot of time to be spending on your own.

Be whatever you want it... - Look at where we're at now.

We're still online, so I don't think we're gonna go back to school at all.

- Just like the whole year, it's just been the same.

Everyone's saying it's like been repetitive.

Are we gonna go back this month?

And then the month comes, and it's like, oh, no, we can't.

[energetic drumbeat] - And I think that that hurts their souls a little bit, to be honest, to-- to know that they're not gonna be coming back, and they're gonna have to go through what they're going through for a couple more months.

I don't know how y'all get up this early in the morning.

- I don't know.

It kind of sucks.

Yeah, exactly.

It's really hard to be home right now, especially 'cause, like, I'm normally, like, alone in the house 'cause everybody's always working or just not here.

[soft dramatic music] It's very different.

- As well as it's a bummer, not, like, seeing my friends every day, so, like, I don't have that social interaction that, like, I need.

♪ ♪ - I get to a point where I'm just like, I'll stare at the laptop screen.

I'm just staring at it.

I'm like... "It's time to stop."

- It's just not fair.

I hope we get to graduate and prom in a season.

That's--that's it.

- That's crazy.

- I miss the people.

I miss the teammates, the football games, all of that.

So, hopefully, we get back out there soon.

But who knows?

♪ ♪ - All right, so we're gonna go over financial aid applications today, OK?

Financial aid, well, we're gonna talk about it.

So somebody actually tell me, what is financial aid?

Somebody tell me what is financial aid.

Raise your hand and let me know.

- Isn't that money you get for college?

- Yes, exactly.

It's money that you get for college.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I don't know who said that.

But yes.

Even if you're accepted, doesn't mean you're gonna go.

So financial aid packages are a huge part of their decision-making process.

Money is a real factor to consider.

Is based solely on financial need.

As far as, like, college is concerned, California has a March 2nd priority deadline for the FAFSA application, so that's been a huge push towards the end of February, early March.

[keyboard clacking] You want to fill out your FAFSA because there is a pool of money that is-- that we have here for student aid, and if you don't apply by this deadline, that money usually dries up.

That is our goal.

That is our deadline.

This is what the FAFSA home looks like.

OK?

So if you're not on this website, you're probably in the wrong place.

If you haven't started it yet, you're going to click Start Here, and it'll take you to a completely different website.

And that is where you create your FSA ID.

All right?

I appreciate y'all for engaging with me, paying attention.

I appreciate my folks who didn't fall asleep on me.

I don't know if you did or not.

I'ma just be optimistic that everybody was paying attention the entire time.

- Over.

OK. That was a lot.

Hm.

[energetic dramatic music] [sighs] Honestly, I feel as though-- I know, like, college is really expensive and all that stuff, so financial aid does play a big role in determining where, but, you know, I feel like if my heart is really in it, I'm gonna do whatever I need to do to get there.

♪ ♪ - Thanks for calling Federal Student Aid.

♪ ♪ [speaking Spanish] ♪ ♪ This call may be monitored or recorded for quality and training purposes.

Please tell me the reason for your call.

- FAFSA application.

- FAFSA applications.

- I've been trying to apply to a few scholarships.

So far, I haven't gotten, like, really any back.

- I hate revolving my life around money, but then it's like, how are you going to go to college without it?

- OK. Say the option you want when you hear it.

Application status, student aid report, corrections and update, dependency, financial and taxes, signature, deadline, state higher education agency, or general application questions.

- Wait.

Hold on.

- Would you like to hear that again?

- Let me just call again.

Ugh.

- I checked the FAFSA website, and it was, like, empty.

So then I was kind of confused, but I'm not really sure.

- It's kind of scary 'cause, like, what if I don't even get money?

[soft dramatic music] [phone beeping] And it's like, um, what am I gonna do?

♪ ♪ - Thanks for calling Federal Student Aid.

You can say "main menu" or press the star key to return-- Sorry, I didn't get that.

- [laughs] The way things are going, like, a lot of people's attitudes, like, even sometimes me, it just feels like I just want to get my diploma so I can go on with my life.

Like, I don't even care about this anymore.

- You make that decision on what the best option is for you when you hear back from all your schools, and I really hope that, financially, they're able to-- to go because I think these are gonna be great opportunities for them.

- For FAFSA application questions, student aid report, or other help, say "FAFSA."

- FAFSA.

- If you are on student-- Go to fafsa.gov to start either FAFSA.

For summer sessions, contact the school.

♪ ♪ Would you like to hear that again?

[phone chimes] - No.

OK, this is not working.

♪ ♪ Our activities director, like, he said that since we're leadership, we can't be tired, but I'm tired.

It's--it's stressful 'cause we have to be the ones to keep everybody else motivated as well as keeping ourselves motivated.

♪ ♪ - We think about mental health versus physical health.

That's quite literally what-- what this battle is right now.

I think students have something to lose here because this is the foundation of their life that they're building.

♪ ♪ - I just hope, the ones that we have helped, that they're not going backwards right now.

♪ ♪ - This is the cross-country course.

A lot of people won't practice unless they have something structured for them to do.

I'm guilty of this, too, so I haven't really been working out, sadly.

I was just trying to, like, get my life together.

I usually like to use my planner to keep me organized.

I have not touched my planner in a while.

♪ ♪ Man.

[chuckles] It's kind of been a little bit tough.

- ♪ Oh, am I waking up?

♪ - Athletics is such an important part of a kid's life because it teaches them, you know, time management and goal setting and--and planning and beyond just being a student, that makes them an effective adult.

- ♪ I live to quell you ♪ - And they miss out on that.

- Everybody's, "Oh, yeah, we want to get our students back in the classroom," but it's not just being back in the classroom.

It's, you know, the social aspect of things.

Some kids come from, like, bad homes, or, like, me going to practice is the only place where I feel, like, normal.

- That ability to connect with an adult and their friends and those kind of things, yeah, those are real.

♪ ♪ - Like, a lot of people were checked out completely, don't care about what else is going on on our campus.

I was, like, this close to getting there, but I can't do that, so got to keep hope.

Hopefully something changes.

I really do.

[bright music] I'm really hoping with, like, the whole vaccine rollout and stuff like that that life can be better.

♪ ♪ - In every corner of the country, Americans have been rolling up their sleeves today.

- Once we get enough people to get this vaccinated, we can kiss COVID goodbye.

- By the end of the week, 2.9 million doses will arrive at 636 locations in all 50 states.

- President saying we could be back to some kind of normal by the Fourth of July.

- Starting April 1st, all Californians aged 50 and over will become eligible for vaccinations.

Then on April 15th, it extends to everyone 16 and over.

- So this is great news for this age group and the community.

♪ ♪ - Exactly one year after the pandemic upended life as we knew it, President Biden now laying out a roadmap for a return to something a lot closer to normal.

- Hi, ladies.

- Hi.

- How's it going?

- Good.

- Good, good.

- It's going well.

- Are you getting, like, waves of people?

It's not a--how's the-- - They're trickling in, yeah.

- They're starting to come a little bit more often.

- OK.

They're just waking up too.

Remember that.

- But you know what?

They're excited to see us.

- Aw.

- They're so excited.

- See the next car that pulls up.

They just smile so big.

We need to be back open because there was some traditions they don't-- they didn't get this year, my seniors.

I want to do that tunnel.

- Oh, yeah.

- So they come through, and we could just cheer them on.

And they drive through.

- Wouldn't that be amazing?

We're gonna do something again.

- I want to do something.

I have to do something.

They can't have nothing their whole year.

I need it as much as them.

Oh, look at that smile.

She's like, "whatever it is, it's a--" Hey!

- Oh, my God.

- Hi, sweetie.

How are you?

- Hello.

- Good.

Good to see you.

We miss you guys.

- Miss you guys.

- How's your grandma?

- All good.

She's all good.

- OK. - Staying safe from COVID.

- She's still in the house?

- No.

- Uh-huh.

Oh, you caught it for a little bit?

OK, but you're doing good, obviously.

All right.

It was just amazing to see a kid.

Did something to me that made me just go, "Oh, my God, I missed this kid."

Who knew I would miss them like that?

- Oh, God, I don't know.

- If we're still virtual and the numbers aren't down, it'll be drive-through.

What would happen is you'd come in your car, one car per family, and they would call your name.

"Pomp and Circumstance" going on, and we just hand you a diploma, and you get to take a picture too.

We have a--yeah.

- But how do we collect... - We've seen a lot of false starts.

Senior pictures are off-site.

Know what I'm talking about?

The one that says class of '22.

We won't know if we can do prom for sure.

Bye, dear.

Bye!

So there's a lot that students are missing out on in their senior year.

Hi, sweetie.

- Hi.

- Hi.

Can I see you?

I don't know who's under the mask.

Can I see your face?

- Oh.

- Oh!

[laughter] - Hi!

- Oh, God, you're not supposed to hug them.

Come back here.

- I'm not hugging!

- Come on over here.

- Hi, sweetie.

I might be contacting you.

- OK. - OK, bye.

- No, I will contact you.

- Bye.

- You can't-- I know you can't help it.

[laughs] - You should see when-- - Here.

Sanitize there.

[laughter] - They sit around being told, "Oh, maybe next month.

Oh, maybe next month."

That wears you down.

I know they need us.

- All right, you guys.

- Bye.

- See you later.

- All right.

- Good morning.

- Good morning.

Good morning.

Did you want to start, or do you want me to jump in?

- I mean, I can just kind of go through what the plan is for the next couple of weeks here.

- Yeah.

- This upcoming Thursday, we have a next steps for senior-parent workshop to complete their FAFSA applications and make sure we try and get as close to 100%, you know, financial aid completion as possible.

It's gonna be a little bit different, obviously, virtually because I can't go around to every student and help them out whenever they have a question.

I'm still trying to brainstorm what that will look like.

- Mm-hmm.

- Very busy couple of weeks.

- Yeah.

- I want you to tell me when it's a lot, when it's too much.

- OK. - I--and you and I know what's going on with distance learning.

Usually by now, our kids would have gone to several schools to visit, or we would have had speakers come in to talk about their colleges, financial aid, but we're missing out on all of that.

And--but if we can bring it to our families, I think that'll be really helpful.

Is there anything else?

- Is any talk about when school is going to start up again?

- OK. Well, as far as I know, April 17th is when we reevaluate when kids are coming back again.

OK, you folks, I have nothing else.

And if we don't, we'll talk to you later.

- Sounds good.

- OK. - Thank you.

- Thank you.

- Bye, Principal.

Good to see you.

- Bye, bye.

- Bye.

- You're welcome.

Bye-bye.

- Bye-bye.

- Bye.

[computer chimes] [knocks] Hello, hello.

- Do you have a second?

- I do, for sure, for sure.

- The stay-at-home order, it was supposed to be lifted at noon today.

- OK, OK. - So as-- as soon as I get a chance to see that the stay-at-home order has been lifted... - Uh-huh.

- We can discuss whether or not we can get back into pods-- - And start practices.

That'd be great.

- It's a step in the right direction.

- Let me see if he actually did.

Let's see.

[keyboard clacking] - Effective immediately, all the regions in the state of California are no longer in the stay-at-home order.

- All right.

- Ah, he did.

- That's good.

- We're seeing a flattening of the curve.

Case rates, positivity rates, starting a bit-- - [laughs] - So there's a step in the right direction.

And that gets us four sports.

- Right?

It's better than nothing.

- State, but we are not out of the woods.

[energetic music] ♪ ♪ - Hey, we still getting to play football, so it is what it is.

♪ ♪ - Yeah, it's been over a year since last football season.

- You need to go to the Deer Valley website, and then sign up for football there, and you'll be allowed to practice.

- So they sent out all the emails to our parents.

Oh, I'm ready.

I can't wait.

- Excited.

When I tell you, I have been constantly texting Ebei and our other friend.

♪ ♪ - Kind of gives you, like, some type of sense of normalcy that, you know, not everything is, like, horrible in the world, you know?

♪ ♪ - Our school is so empty.

I have hand sanitizer and the whole shebang.

[thermometer beeps] You're cold.

You're 96.8.

[laughter] In the beginning, I'm just gonna give them a quick pep talk and let them know things can still change.

If things get worse in the outside world, it'll put a stopper on everything.

- I'm glad to be back.

I'll just say that.

They really need it.

- This morning, I woke up really early 'cause I've had my cheer backpack and, like, my stuff laid out since, like, Monday.

She always says outside, but it's never outside.

Right now, I'm wearing my warm-ups.

Me and Ebei-- hopefully she's wearing hers.

And then our other friend, Danielle, we were all planning on matching.

[laughs] I love track, but I love cheer just a tiny bit more.

[all screaming] It's never a bad day at cheer.

[laughter] Here, there's Louisa!

Louisa!

Oh!

[laughter] - Senior season.

- Senior season.

- And hey-- hey, Louisa!

[all screaming and laughing] - To do a halftime, to do a senior night, that's what we're planning.

No one has stopped me yet.

♪ ♪ Hi, kiddos.

- Look who it is.

- [laughs] Hopefully, it'll just be smooth, and we're all happy to see each other.

[thermometer beeping] OK.

The hardest part is to not hug and scream.

- Hey, guys.

- Hey, girls!

- Fist bumps.

- Fist bumps.

Hug, hug.

- Yeah, that's part of it.

- That's gonna be the hardest part.

Temperature.

- Hey.

[thermometer beeps] - No phones, no purses, no nothing on you.

Yes, keep your water bottle 'cause I can't provide water.

This is what we knew two weeks ago.

I don't expect miracles, but they should know their stuff 'cause they're strong athletes.

We have to know everything, like, yesterday because the games are starting in just a couple of weeks.

- You guys got something?

- Win, baby!

♪ ♪ - Football's not my-- my main sport, but they ruled out indoor sports like basketball.

♪ ♪ I'm a natural athlete so, like, it feels good to be out there playing.

I'ma do it for Coach Reub.

That's what I'm saying.

Got to.

- Line deep!

[shouting indistinctly] [indistinct chatter] - Bro, come on.

- I'm sorry-- - Last time, guys.

Can we do it right?

- I play corner, and I play wide receiver, and then I do, like, special teams and stuff like that.

- All right, huddle up.

Let's try.

Come on, man.

- It feels great to be out there.

- [blows whistle] Who's supposed to block?

Hold the ball.

He's got speed.

He's got athleticism.

I love coaching him.

I love coaching him.

- [blows whistle] Get a break.

Get a break, get a break, get a break, get a break.

- Let's go!

Let's go!

- I want you to be smart.

- OK. - You're a smart guy, right?

- Yeah, I'm pretty smart.

- If you can kick it, please kick it, but if you can't, then you got to make a play out of it.

- All right.

- I think if he really put his all into football, he could have a bright future.

- Oh, good one.

- That's perfect.

But he's been kind of treating this as a side-- side dish.

You know, not the main entrée.

♪ ♪ - It's real important that you guys stay focused.

Can you do this?

Can you pull this off?

- We're going to run into the Tech Center U and then back around twice.

- Why Ebei not in the front?

What's going on?

- Shut up, Kadynce.

- Actually, that was my whole issue from the very beginning.

If I coach, you were not gonna be just a cute girl in a skirt.

[all chanting indistinctly] - Last time!

[all chanting] Waste it, rearrange it.

- Get those elbows out.

- Who we jam?

Who we jam?

- I'ma go in.

Go in here.

I'm in there.

- And when everybody came out, everybody was, like, a little chubby and stuff and had to get back in shape because they'd all been sitting at home and stuff.

[indistinct chatter] You do school by yourself.

You at home by yourself.

So, like, it felt good to, like, be around all my teammates and stuff, so we can all encourage each other to get through all that.

[all singing melody together] ♪ ♪ - That's it!

- I mean, the coaches are hard on us.

- Tonight, get to bed early.

- But they've got to do they job so we can play to our best abilities.

- Win on three.

One, two, three!

[together] Win!

- It's always been a battle to prove what we are or ignore what they say out there.

♪ ♪ - You know, you always hear like, "Oh, Deer Valley, they're not that good."

Like, even my--my aunties, they went to Deer Valley.

Their friends went to Deer Valley, and like, their friends will always say, like, "You're gonna join their cheer team?

"Like, why are you trying out for the cheer team?

It's not that good."

And I'm like, "I like it."

- We say... [together] Who's got the beat?

- Even though cheering for a winning team is always the best thing, but, like, you're playing for an 0 and 10 school.

Like, nobody's looking your direction.

- Ooh.

- Oh, sorry.

- OK, OK, OK, OK. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

OK, we gonna get to that.

Let's do--let's do the first part again.

- There was a stretch of about 10 years where this was the place.

We beat a lot of people.

That doesn't happen anymore.

[dramatic music] - Well, what's the rule?

The rule is that it takes seven positive messages to counteract one negative.

So, you know, we don't-- we're not able to get out enough positive messages to counteract the flow of negativity.

- They're right over there so they can hear you when you're yelling it, so beat the Lions.

♪ ♪ - Like, we have so much talent that goes through our school.

You have to have faith in your team.

- We got-- - Do that one again.

[together] Who are you yelling for?

Deer Valley Wolverines.

- And I said, "You just keep practicing.

"You keep focusing.

"You do what you need to do and rise above it because you are better than-- than what they think or say."

[bright piano music] ♪ ♪ [birds chirping] ♪ ♪ - Everybody wants to beat Deer Valley.

- Hey, Jay.

- In any sport, it doesn't even matter... - Girl, I got, like, three more in the house.

- So the games are gonna be fun.

- But the other ones out my house.

- Just light me up.

Little match.

[imitates match striking] - Today is the first home football game of the season.

We are going to be going against Antioch High.

And as far as I've been on the team, you know, all my four years, we never won against Antioch.

[plucky jazzy music] - We like not to say their name.

The word "Antioch" is a bad word.

So--so we call them the other team.

♪ ♪ - I know we can get a couple of wins in.

[indistinct chatter] [applause] I'm really excited to get back out there and be cheering.

- We about to get O, y'all.

- All right, everybody touch somebody.

This is our first home game, too, so it's so much.

Hey, you guys have had a hard week of practice.

Am I lying?

- No.

- Just a moment of silence.

- ♪ I'm not that ♪ - Prime time!

[together] Yeah!

- Prime time!

[together] Yeah, let's get it!

[cheers and applause] - Get down!

You guys, yeah!

[together] Y-E-L-L. Everybody yell, go, Wolverines!

- Our Wolverines!

[together] Beat the Panthers!

- Touchdown Panthers.

[students cheering together] [energetic music] - As we conclude the first period, Panthers up, 8-0.

- First half, tons of mistakes, man.

They're a little emotional, so we had to kind of calm them down and just play football.

That's all.

We'll be ready, man.

We're ready second half.

[together] We're the DV Wolverines, and we'll knock you out.

[cheering] - Past and free, there number 7 across midfield.

[cheers and applause] Touchdown, Wolverines.

There's a flag back at the Wolverines' 42-yard line.

♪ ♪ - Come on, ref!

[cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ - It's gonna be excellent field position for the Panthers as they come back on.

- Get him!

Get him!

- [blows whistle] - Touchdown, Panthers!

[cheers and applause] - Hey, y'all, DV better wake up!

♪ ♪ - For the Wolverines, now into Panther territory... [together] To the D!

To the I, yell go!

- And there is a flag on the play.

- Oh, my God.

- Yard flag.

[somber music] - You gotta-- you gotta keep this on, man.

- Josiah!

- Yeah, we got it.

We got it.

- Hey, hey, hey!

- Holding against Wolverines.

- Come on, y'all got this!

- It'll be repeat of fourth down.

♪ ♪ - Give me a second.

Oh, my God.

- Breathe in and out.

Here?

- Yeah, it's the same leg.

It's the same leg.

- In the nose, out the mouth.

[together] Teal and white!

- All we need is 6 yards!

- And that's a turnover on downs.

[indistinct chatter] ♪ ♪ - That's OK!

- Come on!

Let's go, D!

- Hey, 13!

- Come on!

♪ ♪ - Touchdown, Panthers.

[cheers and applause] And, ladies and gentlemen, that will do it for Saturday's contest between the visiting Antioch Panthers and your home Deer Valley Wolverines.

The Panthers prevailing, 28 to 0.

♪ ♪ - The kids are trying to figure out how to be a team.

You know, these guys have been on their own, living in their own house, where they haven't really had to worry about anybody else.

[bright piano music] - This is actually a very good life lesson for them.

We got to roll with the punches.

You got to go for it.

Don't wait for something to happen for you.

- You guys gave up?

- No, Coach.

- No, Coach.

- No, Coach.

- Make sure you go home, you stretch, ice, hydrate, take care of your bodies.

All right, everybody?

all: Yes, Coach.

- I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't--I don't know.

I don't know.

- It's a frustrating time for coaches and players.

- Yeah.

- High school kids are the forgotten child.

They may be 6 feet tall.

They may look grown up and in some ways are mature, but they're still a child.

They still have worries.

They still have wants.

♪ ♪ It's that we've got to find tools for them.

♪ ♪ [mouse clicks] [computer chiming] - I'm trying to keep track of all my students, trying to make sure I don't lose any of them, sending text messages to check in on them, see where they're at.

I had tried to reach out to Emily a few times, especially because, at the time, she hadn't, like, gotten back to me.

But I also try to do this from a place of, like, understanding students are going through things.

- For Emily, she was already, like, struggling, so I think that the pandemic just, like, pushed it to another level.

It just kind of put her in this, like, deep hole.

I had seen some things that I was just-- in my head I was like, "She's not OK." She wasn't going to class and not really paying attention.

I was like, "You told me that you want to do good this year, so, like, why aren't we?"

You know?

And she's just like, "What's the point?"

But I never really thought that, you know, she would act on anything.

I thought that we were close enough to where she could tell me.

[soft dramatic piano music] - The fact that these are teenagers is-- I think it impacts whether or not they reach out to you.

♪ ♪ [computer chimes] Emily did end up getting back to me, and we had a conversation where she was able to be really vulnerable and tell me some of the things that was going on in her life.

♪ ♪ - I just-- I felt like everything in my life was wrong.

In--in my eyes, like, I just-- I just wanted to rest and not worry about anything.

[dramatic music] I didn't want to keep going.

♪ ♪ I ended up trying to overdose on pills and sleeping medication.

♪ ♪ - What'd you do with the flour?

Baking soda?

- Yeah.

- No salt?

- No, I would put the salt in, I think.

- It was just a moment of weakness that I never thought I would get to.

- [chuckles] And it made me feel like, where did we all go wrong?

♪ ♪ - We all know the stress of everything that was the shelter in place.

♪ ♪ And then on top of that stress, the pressure of doing well academically hit her kind of hard too.

That stifled a lot of her plans and her goals.

[somber music] - I wasn't that student anymore.

♪ ♪ Here I was, like, failing all my classes.

I didn't see any future for myself.

In my head, I was like, "If I don't succeed now, I'm never gonna amount to anything."

♪ ♪ [energetic music] - I just tried to offer my support... and ask her what she needed from me.

- He just assured me that he was gonna find me resources.

It was just really comforting to hear from Mr. Cam, you know, just reassure me that I wasn't, like, a failure.

I wasn't letting him down.

So we decided that, you know, trying to graduate was gonna be my goal of this year.

♪ ♪ [phone whooshes] ♪ ♪ [phone whooshes] ♪ ♪ You know, wanting to graduate and wanting to, like, pass that milestone, it's something that I look forward to.

♪ ♪ [soft dramatic music] [alarm ringing] [bright piano music] ♪ ♪ - It's really early to be hearing back from schools.

♪ ♪ Probably in the next month and a half.

♪ ♪ [bicycle bell rings] - Close your eyes.

Get really strong through your legs.

Ground.

- I think we're supposed to be hearing back from the UCs at the end of this month.

It's gonna take a minute, but I just want to hear back from all the schools that I've applied to before I make any decisions.

- So within these next two weeks, we'll be finding out, like, our answers.

I'm so scared.

♪ ♪ - Top picks are still the same three.

USC, Arizona State, and Howard.

So I'm just waiting to see what those schools say.

♪ ♪ - And, like, especially it's, like, the uncertainty of where I'm gonna get accepted and, like, where I'm gonna be in the future is scary but, at the same time, really exciting.

- And release out through the mouth.

[exhales] - Hey, guys.

It's Ebei here.

And I just came to let y'all know, voting for homecoming theme has begun.

Yes, homecoming is late, very late, but it's happening.

So make sure you vote.

Make sure you participate.

Thank you.

It's appreciated.

- Let's get right into the news.

- Homecoming is still on.

Leadership needs your help on deciding on the 2021 homecoming theme.

Leadership is planning to celebrate the 2021 homecoming court virtually with exciting video submissions, and capping off the homecoming week with a socially-distanced crowning event.

- Congratulations, spring Honor Roll students.

- That's this Friday.

- Leadership would like to celebrate all Wolverines who made Honor Roll this spring during distance learning.

There will be a drive-through gift pickup to celebrate all Honors students.

- Have a good week.

- So we're voting for the theme of homecoming.

Last year's theme was-- it was the seasons.

I thought that was pretty lame.

- Usually, we have a winter ball, and then we have a homecoming game, and then prom.

- This is a conference, and we're here to provide you with the names of the top 15 reveal for homecoming king and queen.

- I think, last year, I think, everyone had voted to just have a homecoming.

- Davian Tabal Reyes and Javonte Sellers.

Well, congratulations.

- It's cool to see, like, that many people at my school, like, genuinely like me as a person.

It means I'm doing something right when it comes to, like, my character.

Thank you to everyone that nominated and just voted for me.

Hope you guys have a good one.

Stay safe and make sure to wear your mask, OK?

Make sure to wear your mask.

Stay safe.

Mwah.

- I appreciate the school for trying, but it can't be the same.

- But, like, it's better than nothing, honestly.

'Cause we've been out of school for so long.

♪ ♪ - Ebei lost her scissors.

♪ ♪ - Tomorrow night is Senior Night.

- Take a knee real quick, guys.

Real, real, real, real quick.

- It's our last game of the season.

- It's our last time going over everything, so be focused.

You guys get what I'm saying?

all: Yes, Coach.

- Especially during the pandemic, we got enough going on already.

- Win with me on three!

One, two, three!

[together] Win!

- This is the biggest one.

[energetic music] ♪ ♪ - It's hopeful that this is our year.

We've been waiting for this.

- All right.

♪ ♪ - So we gotta go out and win.

- I mean, we never win homecoming.

That's kind of sad, you know?

It's your homecoming game, and you don't win.

- Oh, yeah, nobody's gonna be over here excited to cheer for you if you guys are getting blown out 50 to 0.

Like, and it's not even like, one game.

It happened like, you know, consistently.

♪ ♪ - Honestly, they try.

They put in the work, the practice, the time, all of that, and I feel like, at the end of the day, that's what matters.

♪ ♪ - If any--any issues of kids hanging out, they got to go.

- It's still gonna be limited capacity because of corona, and it's extremely weird, but it's also exciting, too.

- Homecoming is a time to be celebrating with our seniors.

[indistinct chatter] - Oh, that is so beautiful.

- Oh, I think they're arriving.

I hear 'em.

[indistinct chatter] ♪ ♪ - Time to get up!

Ten minutes, we drill!

- Ah!

- There you go.

So we'll do it along the sidelines.

- And then flip it.

I'ma flip it over.

- Scoot it over this way please.

♪ ♪ - How you doing?

Coach Hubbard.

All right.

All right.

♪ ♪ - Where's your escort?

- Over there.

- They need to be here.

♪ ♪ - Kadynce Betancourt.

- Whoo!

- Next we have Ebei Oiyemhonlan.

And next we have number 1, Ahmad Woodard.

♪ ♪ - I haven't been on campus since we got put out of campus, so I'm super-- I mean, it feels good to be back.

It's super good to see people again.

What's up, girl?

Senior Night.

How you feeling?

- All right.

All right.

- Yeah?

Congratulations.

- Thank you!

- Yay!

[laughs] All right.

- Have a good game.

- Bye, Mr. Cam.

- Bye.

- Thank you.

- I said, "Ain't nobody ever gave me nothing!"

[team shouts] - But I got family!

all: Yeah!

- We got DV!

all: Yeah!

- And Tatiana got my cover.

all: Yeah!

- And it's a great day for football!

all: Whoo!

- Let's break it!

Let's go!

- Let's go!

[all cheering] - One more time, make some noise for the wonderful seniors, all that they have accomplished so far, and for all that they're going to do out in this beautiful world.

Thank you so much.

- Oh, yeah!

♪ ♪ - First down for the Falcons.

♪ ♪ - [blows whistle] - Touchdown, Falcons!

♪ ♪ [together] Who's got the beat?

The Wolverines got the beat.

And when the Wolverines got the beat, there we go.

- Second score of the contest for the Falcons.

[clapping together] [cheers and applause] - Touchdown, Wolverines!

- Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah, Thailand.

- There's a flag on the play.

- No!

What do you mean?

[dramatic music] What do you mean?

- Oh!

- Dang.

That's the second time too.

- And denied at the goal line there by Freedom.

- I mean, that was obvious.

- ♪ Maybe I should pray ♪ ♪ Maybe I should stay ♪ - Touchdown, Falcons.

[upbeat pop music] ♪ Maybe I could give ♪ ♪ Myself another chance ♪ ♪ So I can live and ♪ - We're supposed to be doing, like-- - I don't--what do we-- - Oh, no.

I don't even know what we do.

- What are we supposed to do?

How are you doing?

- Good.

How was it?

How was the meeting?

- Oh, last night?

It was--it was really good.

It was really good.

We had--we had 30, 40?

- OK. - It was really good.

A lot of parent engagement, so it was really good.

[cheers and applause] [together] Let's go, DV, let's go!

[cheers and applause] - Touchdown, Wolverines!

[cheers and applause] - Oh!

[cheers and applause] - Whoo-hoo!

Whoo!

Whoo-hoo!

- [laughs] - It's gonna be easier for you.

[together] Don't you go back!

- One, two!

- Wolverines, attack!

[together] Don't you go back.

- Last time!

- Wolverines attack!

- Yeah, I'm excited.

- What, you mean-- you mean different as far as college admissions though?

They were super competitive.

I don't know if you saw, but there was more applications this year.

- Yeah.

- I was really surprised.

- I don't know.

I don't know.

- Inside the 10-yard line, first down.

- Bro.

[cheers and applause] - Touchdown, Falcons.

[indistinct chatter] - All right, I'm gonna go back there-- - Do your thing.

- And cover.

Thank you.

- Be a principal.

- Make sure you stay in touch.

- Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

- See you, man.

- All right.

- End of first half, Wolverines trailing a 6-point lead, 14 points to 20.

- Hey, Mr. Cam.

[together] Whoa!

Whoa!

Keep that Wolverine spirit up!

Keep that Wolverine spirit up!

Are you fired up?

Let's get fired up!

- There it is!

- Fired up!

- There it is!

[together] Fired up!

♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] - Come on, come on.

♪ ♪ - Let's go, Jaedan!

Let's go, Jaedan!

♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ - Nice and easy!

Get your man!

[cheers and applause] - Now, from the Falcons' 48-yard line.

[cheers and applause] - Go!

Whoo!

- Touchdown, Wolverines!

[cheers and applause] - I think we came for the right game.

[all chanting indistinctly] ♪ ♪ - [blows whistle] - Get a break!

Get a break, get a break, get a break, get a break!

- Let's go!

Let's go!

Quick, quick, quick!

- Take it on three.

One, two, three.

[together] Take it.

- Where you at?

- They need you guys.

Go back out there.

- Come on, kiddos!

Back, back, back!

- Hey, DV!

[together] Let's go!

Dig in D!

Hold that line, dig in big D. - Touchdown, Falcons!

- Oh, my God.

Are you serious?

- Ugh.

♪ ♪ - It's over.

- 21!

[cheers and applause] - 47-yard line.

♪ ♪ Just shy of the 35-yard line, it's gonna be fourth and short now for Deer Valley.

♪ ♪ [cheerleaders chanting indistinctly] ♪ ♪ - For Deer Valley now at the Falcons' 30-yard line.

[cheers and applause] - Whew!

We're so close.

[together] Let's go, DV!

Let's go!

Let's go, DV!

Let's go!

Let's go, DV!

Let's go!

- Come on, DV!

- Come on!

♪ ♪ - Solid.

Three.

[cheers and applause] - Passed to forward.

- Yeah!

[all cheering] ♪ ♪ - Look, we got it on camera.

- Yes, sir!

Hey, DV!

- Hey, touchdown, I saw that!

- Touchdown!

- One more time.

[indistinct chatter, cheering] ♪ ♪ - Oh, my gosh.

We won!

[all chanting together indistinctly] Forget about beating us up!

[laughter] - It was like, 12 seconds left in the game, final touchdown, 6 seconds left.

- Yes.

- Never give up!

You just have to believe.

Like, that's what happen when you don't give up.

Like, you see, like, things like that can happen.

[soft dramatic music] We might not have got all the wins that we wanted to, but that last win meant something.

- Yeah!

- I'm super excited about, like, that experience for the kids, and, you know, we enjoyed ourselves too.

But also, just seeing my kids in-person, I haven't seen them in over a year.

[dramatic music] ♪ ♪ That was a good game.

Y'all got the dub.

- How are you?

- I'm good.

I'm good.

- How are you feeling?

- All right, we'll catch y'all next time.

- Bye, you guys.

Have a good one.

- Bye, guys.

♪ ♪ - This is it.

For Kadynce and Ebei, for, you know, Ahmad, it was their last time underneath the bright lights, and I'm happy it ended the way it did.

♪ ♪ - Oh, my goodness.

Wow.

[dramatic music] ♪ ♪