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February Fun Facts: 20 things we learned about high school sports this month

The Dallas high school sports landscape was busy in February with major non-game events like National Signing Day and UIL realignment both in the first week of the month.

Then in the final days the girls state basketball tournament helped bookend a frigid month full of action from across the prep sports landscape. Here are 20 things we learned during the shortest calendar month.

Solomon Thomas, Coppell's star defensive end and Stanford signee, is a pretty big nerd

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Dallas ISD athletes can out dress pretty much everyone you know

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Evan Pontley has a really good fast ball – so good that he used it to strike out 22 batters in a 7-inning no-hitter.

Video of the controversial Argyle-Celina finale sparked national coverage.

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Especially when we made it onto Deadspin!

Allen's $60 million football stadium might not be all it's cracked up to be

Duncanville won its 100th straight game

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Duncanville proceeded to extend that streak to 105 games

Highland Park could not prolong the inevitable as they are now 6A with Texas biggest schools

Rockwall's Austin Grandstaff gave his best Jimmer Fredette impersonation with 51 points against Wilmer-Hutchins

Frisco Wakeland is really good at swimming

Come to think of it, so is Southlake Carroll

Matt Carpenter's dad, Rick Carpenter, earned his 700 career win as a high school baseball coach

And Frisco's coach Scott Cook landed win No. 600

We're not done with milestones yet, Frisco Wakeland's boys soccer coach Rusty Oglesby landed career win No. 200

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McKinney North reminded everyone why high school sports are a thing of beauty

Fans voted that Lincoln's turn-of-the-millennium team is the greatest DFW girls basketball dynasty ever.

Ariel Atkins is really good at basketball

We found out Dominick Faletto from Forney is a goal scoring machine

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