Dripping Springs High School added another strong chapter to its senior class this week as five student athletes signed to continue their athletic careers in college next year.
The ceremony took place on Wednesday, April 15, with the school and district recognizing a group that will now carry Dripping Springs into the next level across basketball, football, lacrosse, swimming, and wrestling.
The five signees were Chaela Luelling, who signed with Ripon College in Wisconsin for basketball, James Montgomery, who signed with the University of the Incarnate Word for football, Lawson Attaway, who signed with Virginia Wesleyan University for lacrosse, Zach Collins, who signed with Florida Southern College for swimming, and Jackson Shipley, who signed with Indiana University for wrestling.
That group gives the signing day a little more weight than a routine school update. Dripping Springs did not send one team’s seniors off to college this week.
It sent athletes from five different sports, each heading in a different direction, which says something about the range of the program and the kind of class the Tigers are finishing out this spring.
The school treated the day as another college signing milestone for the Class of 2026, and the list itself backs that up.
Luelling’s name was listed under basketball, and her recruiting profiles also identify her as a Dripping Springs girls basketball guard.
That makes her move to Ripon College one of the headline moments from the ceremony, especially for a school that continues to send athletes from its major team sports on to college competition.
Montgomery’s signing sent another Dripping Springs athlete into college football, this time with the University of the Incarnate Word.
Football has been one of the most visible paths to the next level for Dripping Springs in recent years, and Montgomery now joins that line by turning his senior year into a college opportunity.
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Attaway’s signing added a lacrosse piece to the ceremony. That matters because lacrosse still tends to get less attention than football, basketball, baseball, or soccer in many school settings, yet Dripping Springs has continued to place athletes from that program into college opportunities as well.
Attaway’s move to Virginia Wesleyan University put lacrosse on the board again for the Tigers and showed the reach of a signing class that was not limited to the biggest sports on campus.
The same goes for Collins and Shipley. Collins will continue in swimming at Florida Southern College, while Shipley heads to Indiana University for wrestling.
Those two signings widened the picture even further, giving the school college placements in both an individual water sport and one of the toughest one on one competitions in high school athletics.
On one morning, Dripping Springs celebrated athletes from five very different disciplines, all leaving with college plans already in place.
This was not the school’s first college signing moment of the year either.
On February 4, Dripping Springs held a much larger National Signing Day event in which 26 senior student athletes signed to continue their athletic careers in college, a total the district described as a school record.
That makes the April 15 ceremony feel less like a standalone moment and more like another wave in a class that has produced college level talent across the board.
For Dripping Springs, that is the larger takeaway. The school is not just celebrating one standout or one breakout team. It is closing the year with another set of seniors moving on, and this latest group covers nearly every corner of the athletics program.
Basketball, football, lacrosse, swimming, and wrestling were all represented in one ceremony, which is the kind of signing day schools remember because it reflects depth as much as star power.
By the end of the day, the message around campus was simple enough.
Five more Dripping Springs seniors now have their next step in place, and the Tigers will send another group into college sports with signed letters, family support, and a high school career already behind them.
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