Simone Heard (8) won District 6-6A MVP during her junior and senior seasons and helped lead the Lady Panthers volleyball team to the regional final this past season. Photo by Andy Redmond / C&S Media
By David Wolman
Plano East enjoyed another successful year in athletics, and the seniors who donned black and gold during the 2025-26 school year were key contributors to their respective teams.
The Murphy Monitor will review the accomplishments of some of the top seniors from the Class of 2026.
Alexa Perreira, girls’ soccer
All the seniors for the Plano East girls’ soccer team wanted was a playoff win.
Not only did the Lady Panthers defeat Hebron 1-0 for their first postseason win since 2009, but Plano East also conjured a playoff run that lasted three rounds deep. Perreira scored the game’s lone goal midway through the first half. During Plano East’s next game, a 7-1 rout of Arlington Martin in the area round, Perreira netted a hat trick.
Plano East’s playoff run came to an end in the regional semifinals following a 3-2 loss to Keller.
Named to the District 6-6A first team as a senior and the district’s Co-Newcomer of the Year as a freshman, Perreira, a North Texas signee, also stepped in at goalkeeper in addition to her starting role at forward.
Caitlyn Tran, track and field
District 6-6A featured the top three runners in the girls’ 100-meter hurdles in Region I-6A – Tran, Princeton’s Sydney Smith and Plano’s Morgan Olschewsky. Smith entered the regional meet ranked first, Tran second and Olschewsky third.
Tran did more than enough to earn her first-ever state berth after the SMU pledge ran to second place with a time of 13.94 seconds. Tran was the district runner-up after clocking a 13.872 and took second at the area meet with a 13.73.
Tran, who placed fifth at state with a wind-aided time of 13.9, broke the school record in the 100 hurdles three times this season.
As a junior, Tran was the district runner-up, clocking a time of 14.42.
Malachi Terry, track and field
Like Tran, Terry was a first-time state qualifier, but his qualification came in the boys’ 200-meter dash.
Terry placed third in the District 6-6A meet and second in the area meet. He earned his spot in the state meet after running a second-place time of 21.06 seconds at the Region I-6A meet. His time of 20.96 at the area meet at Denton Braswell’s Carrico Stadium was a new school record.
Terry, a New Jersey Institute of Technology signee, placed eighth at the Class 6A state track and field championships in Austin with a 21.05.
He was also a regional qualifier in the boys’ 100-meter dash.
Moustafa Abualneel, boys’ basketball
The last remaining player of Plano East’s 40-0 state championship team, Abualneel did a lot of winning when he was with the Panthers.
Abualneel, a Henderson State pledge, came off the bench during Plano East’s run to the state title, but the Henderson State signee has been just as important a contributor since becoming a starter two years ago. The 6-foot-7 forward was honored on the District 6-6A first team as a senior after helping lead Plano East to a co-district championship and a 27-8 record.
One of seven seniors for Plano East, Abualneel helped anchor a stingy Panthers’ defense that allowed less than 50 points in 12 of 16 district games and to 47 points overall on the season. Alum Jayden Parker, a UT-Arlington signee, was the district’s Defensive Player of the Year.
Reagan Noel, cross country/track and field
Noel went from being a middle-of-the-pack junior varsity team runner and running a 5K time of 26 minutes when she was a freshman to contending for a varsity district title and an appearance in the regional meet.
During her senior season, Noel broke 19 minutes for the first time at Southlake Carroll and the following week at Lovejoy ran an 18:39. Her time of 18:39 was the second-fastest in program history, just 17 seconds behind Martha Brown’s school record of 18:22.
Noel later helped lead Plano East to its first district title since 2017. At the 6-6A meet, she took fourth place with an 18:46 – a performance that comes one year after she placed 46th in district.
Noel’s season and high school career ended at the Region I-6A meet. Her time of 18:46 would have qualified her for state had she competed in any of the other three Class 6A regionals. She placed 21st.
Simone Heard, girls’ soccer, track and field/volleyball
Heard’s primary sport has always been volleyball, but her athleticism has translated well to track as well as the soccer field.
Heard joined the Lady Panthers’ soccer team late in the season and she stepped in at goalkeeper and played an integral role in helping Plano East reach the third round of the postseason for the first time in 16 years.
Of course, Heard’s biggest success came in volleyball. She helped lead a huge turnaround for a Plano East program that improved from seven district wins during her freshman season to back-to-back appearances in the regional semifinals during her sophomore and junior seasons and an appearance in the regional final during her senior season.
Named the Most Valuable Player of District 6-6A in both her junior and senior seasons, Heard, a Georgia Tech signee, finished her four-year varsity career with 1,913 kills, 135 service aces, 199 blocks and 1,282 digs.
On the track, Heard helped lead Plano East’s girls 4×100 relay to two straight appearances in the regional meet, in addition to winning the district title this year.
Travis Agee, football
At 5-foot-10 and 180 pounds, Agee was a physical force on both sides of the ball.
Agee was a downhill runner who used his legs to churn out tough yardage and moved the chains for Plano East’s offense, while defensively, he excelled as an outside linebacker.
Although his numbers dipped his senior season because of the emergence of running back Treyce Seldon, Agee still made a big impact. As a senior, he rushed for 453 yards with five touchdowns. That came one year after a breakout junior year in which he rushed for a career-best 1,297 yards and seven rushing touchdowns. He finished his career with 2,278 rushing yards and 17 scores.
Defensively, Agee made 47 tackles with three quarterback hurries. He starred alongside fellow alum outside linebacker Jace Boutte (154 tackles, 7 tackles for loss) and alum defensive lineman John Paul (43 tackles, 6 tackles for loss, 15 quarterback hurries).
Plano East made the playoffs during Agee’s sophomore season, won six games during his junior season and won two games during his senior season.
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