Arrow Football Season Tickets, Field Renovations, & More On The 2025 Season

Arrow football season tickets on sale

The 2025 Clinton Arrow football season tickets will be open to the public for purchase on Monday, August 18, through Friday, August 29.
To view the 2025 regular season schedule, visit clintonarrows.com/sports/football/schedule/2025.
General admission (single game) tickets ($10) will be available during home-game weeks electronically at gofan.co/app/school/MS4661, as well as the gate.
North or South Reserved sections are sold through the Clinton Arrow Athletic Department, not through Clinton Arrow Touchdown Club.

Arrow Field renovations completed

The Clinton Arrow Athletics Department and Clinton Public School District (CPSD) concluded renovations to the track and turf surfaces at Arrow Field at the end of July, highlighting many improvement projects that are ongoing for Clinton athletes.

The project was completed by Hellas Construction.

“Our facilities are being used by our student athletes 350 days a year, so we want to make sure we have the best possible environment and equipment for them,” Clinton Athletics Director Judd Boswell said.

Five (football, women’s and men’s track and field, and women’s and men’s soccer) of Clinton’s twenty-six athletic programs utilize the facilities at Arrow Field, as does Clinton’s award-winning marching band.

Hellas replaced and installed the epiQ Tracks® Q3000 Preferred High Quality Performance system — one of the most premium surfaces for track and field. The Q3000 system is an impermeable, full-pour system running track installed in a multi-layered application, resulting in a preferred collegiate and high school quality running track that is durable and resilient.

In addition to the track resurfacing, Hellas refilled and swept the infill — granular material placed within the blades of synthetic grass to provide support, cushioning and a more natural look and feel — for an improved turf surface.

Clinton Athletics and CPSD improvements will not stop at Arrow Field’s track and turf surfaces, as a brand-new softball field house is under construction on the campus of Clinton High

School, which school officials say further demonstrates the district’s commitment to Clinton’s athletes. The softball project has an anticipated completion date of February 1, 2026.

“We are very excited for the continued improvements to our facilities and thankful for our administration and board members,” Boswell said.

Arrows hoping for a successful football season in 2025

By Danny C. Davis

Another new chapter has started for the Clinton High School (CHS) football program this season. In February, Coach John Carr resigned, after being head coach for only for ten months and finishing 4-6 last season.

Also in February, Clinton defensive coordinator Hamer Morgan was named as the 20th head coach for the Arrows. Morgan has been an assistant coach at CHS since 2015.

With the head coaching change, the Arrows hired Ben Shelton as the offensive coordinator and Brett Rowell as the defensive coordinator.

Morgan is optimistic about the upcoming season.

“We have all the starters from last year coming back on defense, but only three starters returning on offense,” said Morgan. “But we have an extremely talented sophomore class and feel our offense will be very good later in the season, after they get experience.”

The Arrows have one hundred players on the roster this season, and CHS is the fifth largest school system in Mississippi.

Clinton again will compete in Region 2-Class 7 A, arguably the toughest region or district in all classifications. Jackson Murrah and Oxford have returned to Region 2-7A in place of defending state champion Tupelo, who was shifted to Region 1-7A.

Last year, eight of Clinton’s opponents qualified for the playoffs, and two of those won a state championship – Grenada won Class 6A, and Tupelo won the Class 7A title. Clinton’s longest rival, Brandon, played for the Class 7A title before falling to Tupelo.

This year’s schedule has changed slightly, but is equally as tough – with no easy games. The Arrows added non-region games against Pearl and Petal.

The Arrows open up with old time rival Warren Central on August 29 at home. The Vikings have been picked to win the Class 6A championship this season. The next week, CHS will host Northwest Rankin at home. The Arrows lost a nail bitter on the road by 2 points last year at Flowood. On September 12, the Arrows travel to Brandon. Last year, the Arrows beat the Bulldogs 65-62 in the highest scoring game in Class 7A history. The Bulldogs are picked to win Class 7A South and have the top running back in the state, Tyson Robinson.

On September 19, CHS will host Pearl and play the Pirates for the first time since 2019. The Pirates return QB Jack Durr, who threw for 2,500 yards in 2023 after missing the entire season with an injury in 2024.

After playing three of the first four games at home, the Arrows start a three-game road trip, first traveling 100 miles south to Petal to meet the Class 7A Panthers, a perennial football power, for the first time in history.

After an open date on October 9, CHS travels to Jackson to play Jackson Murrah for the first time since 2022. Murrah has rejoined MHSAA Class 7A and finished 8-2 in 2024.
Next, CHS makes the long trip to play Starkville, where Clinton has not won since 2000. Former Clinton coach John Carr has recruited a 4-star QB from Denham Springs, Louisiana, and the Yellow Jackets are always loaded with a lot of talent.

Clinton returns home for the final two home games. First, on October 24, CHS will host Oxford for the first meeting with Chargers since the Class 6A North Championship in 2020.
Oxford won 31-27 and advanced to the state championship game in a down-to-the-wire finish. Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin’s son, Knox Kiffin, is slated to be the Charger’s starting QB, and Oxford should compete for Region 2-7A title, also.

The final home game and senior night will be October 31 against Germantown.

The Mavericks return King White at QB, one of the top players in the state, and may win Region 2-7A.

CHS will end the regular season at rival Madison Central, where CHS has won only twice since 2002. The Jaguars have a new transfer QB from Oxford and are picked to finish first or second in Region 2-6A.

“Our schedule is a tough challenge, just like it is every year. That is the way we like it – to play a tough non-region schedule to get ready for region play,” said Morgan.

“We had a good spring and summer weight lifting and 7-on-7 games,” said Morgan.

“We feel we are going to be much better on defense this season with everybody coming back. Our offensive line returns three of the five starters, and they should be a lot better.

“Sophomore quarterback Jayden Jones is improving every day and will be a dual threat for us. At 6’ 3 ½” and 205 pounds, he is hard to bring down. He really has a strong arm and is really a good kid.”

“We have a lot of young talent and depth with our running backs and wide receivers, which are mostly sophomores. When they get some experience under their belts, we are going to be very good on offense. They are excited to get thrown out there to play.”

“Braylon Spann is our senior kicker and punter and has improved in the offseason and is solid.”

“We have good kids that play hard every Friday night. That is the trade mark of Clinton Arrow football.”

“Our strength is on the defense, especially at linebacker, where everybody has a lot of experience, and on the offensive line with three starters back,” said Morgan. “The key for us is how fast the young offense running backs and receivers can mature and get better, and, of course, we need to avoid injures.”