MONUMENT — When talking about team goals before the fall football season, Mead players came together and wrote “1% better every day” on the whiteboard in their meeting room.

The Mavericks lost the Class 3A title game a year ago, and the response started with an attitude and edge created from Day 1 of the 2025 season: They won’t be satisfied. And they certainly aren’t willing to take a step backwards.

That message was the overarching theme following their 50-9 win over Lewis-Palmer on Friday at Don Breese Stadium.

On a night the Mavericks (4-0) turned L-P’s black-and-orange jerseys into a black-and-blue beatdown that saw the mercy rule running clock go into effect early in the third quarter, they remained “unsatisfied.”

“We got 10 games left,” said junior quarterback Ethan Elmore, allud

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