ECHS Football Awarded $5K T-Mobile Grant

ECHS players, cheerleaders, coaches, staff, and T-Mobile members with the $5K check.

Peytin Manor, story:
On October 17, 2025, the Edmonson County High School football program was awarded a $5,000 grant by T-Mobile. According to ECHS Athletic Director Kyle Pierce, the athletic department will be using the money to keep the football field in good and ready condition. 

Friday Night 5G Lights by T-Mobile provides small town communities a chance to showcase school spirit. This program stretched from every corner of the United States to help high school football programs upgrade their stadiums. From August 1 to September 19, 2025, T-Mobile awarded hundreds of football programs at random with $5,000. 

ECHS was one of the thousands of applicants that was randomly awarded the grant.

“We will look to see what we need to do to help with our football field, which now has soccer on it as well pretty much full time," said Pierce. "We will try to do what we can to use that money in the best way we can to keep our field in great shape, which it is doing really well right now in terms of a grass field."

He said that an investment in some leveling work is likely for next year.
 
The EC athletic director especially thanked Thomas Willoughby, T-Mobile representative at the Sam’s Club located in Bowling Green for helping set things in motion for Edmonson County football.