Puyallup receiver Luke Parker is school's new single-season touchdown receptions record holder

Alright, here with Luke Parker, new Puyallup High School single season record holder for receiving touchdowns with 19. First of all, when you think about just, you know, some great passing offenses here over the years with the Hewards and your receivers, Coach Dane Looker, you got his record. What's that mean to you to be the record holder? It means a lot. It's definitely a great honor. I mean, Dane Looker had a crazy career here, so I'm just glad I'm able to. I'm kind of following his footsteps there. I'm super grateful for my teammates and all the coaches putting in a great, great game plan each week. And I'm just super excited about it. Dane is your receivers coach, correct? Yes, sir. What did he say to you when you broke the record? Were there some words on the sideline of congratulations? What did that look like? Yeah, so after I passed, it was cool. He came up to me, said congratulations, like you earned it. Stuff like that, which is really cool to hear, especially from a great coach and ex-NFL player like that. It was really rewarding to hear, but I'm not satisfied. I feel like the state championship's our goal as a team, and that's what I wanna complete this year, so. His son Lawson had a really productive role in this offense last year. When he graduated, In your mind, how much did you think, hey, I kind of want to fill that role this year and maybe even kind of take it to a new level this season? Excuse me. Yeah, I mean, Lawson was a great player, did a lot of great things for us. His yards after the catch was crazy. That was something I kind of wanted to emulate and try and match because I feel like that was a good turning point. For our team last year was just how much we can be explosive with the ball in our hands after the catch with Jai and Jaden Woodland and all those guys. So I just tried to kind of follow their lead and step into that role a little bit. And yeah, I'm blessed to be able to do that. With this offense that DJ brought to this program, what about it has created so many opportunities, not just for you, but for everyone with open looks and volume and targets and kind of everything? What about it makes it so tough to defend? Yeah, I think Coach DJ and Coach Chambers do a great job each week of preparation for games. Just kind of seeing what the defense has and taking what's there and just kind of letting their playmakers go to work. I feel like he does a great job of scheming people open. Also, you know, feeding the ball to our good running backs, very dynamic running backs. I feel like it's hard to stop. If we have both sides of the offense firing, I feel like it's hard to stop in general with a good pass pass attack and a good run attack so you're the number one seed in the state tournament, a number of signature wins this year, nationally ranked in some polls, but I'm sure all of that doesn't mean much to you guys unless you go win the state title at Husky stadium, right? I mean, Obviously, that's the ultimate goal. What will it take for more wins to get it done? I feel like we're kind of in a similar situation last year. We had a lot of confidence, we were rolling. And I feel like the biggest difference this year is just keeping our head down and just not being satisfied where we're at. Yeah, we beat some top ranked teams and some hard earned wins. But I feel like those will just get us battle tested for later on. Which I feel like is the biggest difference in this team than last team was we're just more battle tested. Thank you very much for being here. I feel like this team has what it takes, honestly. So I feel like as long as we just keep the main thing the main thing, just keep preparing, stay consistent, and just don't get too comfortable with where we're at, I think we can go all the way this year, so.