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Cade Klubnik/tough kid/favorite memory
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Cade Klubnik/tough kid/favorite memory


Jul 24, 2022, 7:11 PM

Cade Klubnik is, as you would imagine, a fantastic interview. But we were sitting there in the heat, just talking, when I asked him his favorite game in high school. Dude won two state championships and played in a ton of great games. But he told me it was the win over North Shore in the Class 6A Division I state semifinal in Katy Texas. To set the stage, North Shore had a 29-game winning streak and had won two state championships in a row, and they were favored to win a third.

Klubnik told me he tore the AC joint in his throwing shoulder on the second series of the game. The trainers all thought he had broken his collarbone, and he knew he couldn't throw the ball more than five yards. He told the trainers to brace it up, and he went back out and played. Once he was diagnosed with the AC joint tear (where the clavicle (collar bone) separates from the scapula (shoulder blade), he got a shot and went back out and played the rest of the game.

North Shore took a 21-17 lead with just over four minutes left in the game, and in an interesting note, it was the first time Westlake (Klubnik's school) had trailed all season.

Still hurting, Klubnik led his team down the field and they had a 2nd-and-goal at the 1. Stuffed. Third down. Stuffed. Fourth down? He kept it and ran around right end for the game-winning score with just over a minute to play. Sore shoulder and all. And sent Westlake to the state championship game against Southlake Carroll and heralded quarterback Quinn Ewers.

Klubnik didn't throw all week in practice, and he received two shots the day of the game and one at halftime. All he did was go 18-for-20 for 220 yards and a TD and ran for 97 yards and two TDs on the ground to win the title. He told me he couldn't lift his arm for a month and only in the spring started to feel a lot better. But that one game - that comeback win with a bum shoulder - was the best memory he had of his high school career.

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