Lakeside of Nine Mile Falls in running for $1 million grand prize

Eagles are one of four remaining schools nationally still alive in T-Mobile’s ‘Friday Night Lights’ 5G online voting competition that runs through Nov. 8

Lakeside of Nine Mile Falls has already clinched $250,000 for its general student-body fund after winning the West Coast bracket of the T-Mobile ‘Friday Night Lights’ 5G online voting competition. (Lakeside school district / Courtesy)

The Lakeside of Nine Mile Falls Eagles are in the final four — with a $1 million prize on the line.

And the likes of current NBA guard Corey Kispert, former NFL Super Bowl MVP Mark Rypien, recent World Series pitcher Drew Rasmussen, former NBA Seattle Sonics guard Luke Ridnour and even food-connoisseur television personality Guy Fieri are all involved to try and help the school bring it home.

It’s all part of T-Mobile’s “Friday Night Lights” 5G competition where high schools in communities of 150,000 residents or fewer have been trying to compile a mass amount of online votes — with the winner moving on to the next round.

“It is full gas pedal down,” said Devin Bauer, the district athletic director and former football coach at Lakeside of Nine Mile Falls.