From one side to the other

The Warrior mascot stands for pride, discipline, and commitment but most importantly, it represents being a real fighter. And that’s exactly what Josue Solorio is.

Josue plays football for the Aztec Warriors and he’s been having an awesome season so far, giving it his all and fighting hard to make it to CCS. But the funny thing is, Josue didn’t even grow up playing football.

Solorio: “When I was younger, I didn’t really play football like that, I was more into playing games and stuff with my friends.”

When he was eight years old, Solorio was just a regular kid who loved chilling and gaming. 

Solorio:“Growing up, I liked playing games, but I enjoyed Fortnite more since I played it a lot more with my friends,” 

Besides gaming, Solorio also liked kicking the ball around.

Solorio:“I thought I was pretty good at soccer too, but then I tried football and it just felt different. Like I really liked hitting people and being part of a team.”

Now Solorio is all about the grind. Football became his thing, the practices, the games, and the brotherhood

Solorio: “It’s hard sometimes, but when you’re out there on the field with your brothers, it’s all worth it.”

Solorio shows what it means to be a Warrior , proud, disciplined, and ready to fight for what he wants.

Solorio: “I just try to go hard every day, that’s all you can really do.”

As someone who’s on the football team, I’ve seen Solorio on the football field. I got to experience him figuring out what the play signals were against Mt. Pleasant High School. At one point, Mt. Pleasant was in the lead by two touchdowns, but Solorio came to save the day

Solorio: So the game is passing by and um me and my friend Nestor G, we start figuring out like the coaches making some hand signals to the quarterback”

Solorio starts noticing the coaches hand signals to the QB, as he sees this he takes this as an opportunity to help the Yerba Buena Aztec warriors lead to victory

 Solorio: “And so we're like um alright maybe we can figure these out right? and so were watching them and like we memorized like which hand signals like mean pass or run”

As he had figured out what the hand signals meant, he took it as a chance to yell out their plays so that the Yerba Buena Aztec warriors could know and take it as an advantage to lead us to victory.

Solorio: “And eventually we started like getting to the point where you just like start yelling out their plays, it felt like pretty cool figuring them out.

In the end, Solorio shows what a Warrior really is, disciplined, committed, and always ready to step up. He didn’t start with football, but he worked for it, and it shows every time he’s on the field.