Reaching out

This week was a real good week for the High school team for a few reasons. First and most importantly they are starting to truly realize they are a team. Comments were made by some of the players, in our team meetings after practice, were geared towards looking after each other and helping each other both on and off the field. This was expressed that if anyone needed help with either school work or bullies that all they had to do was ask and the team have there back. This i found to be very significant because they developed this attitude on their own. No coaching staff brought this up, or made mention of it. For them to find this significant speaks volumes to them realizing the team dynamic of the sport. On a lighter but still significant side we picked up three new people who have never played football in their lives. If this program is to continue to grow and thrive those are the people we need to reach. These individual came because they heard about it and though it sounded like it was something they would like to try. lets see how things work out for them.

more progress

This week was the best week of pre-season practice by far. On Tuesdays practice the quarterbacks are continuing to make good progress. The most surprising thing was the Wednesday practice. Word is getting around because we have gone from about 6 people at practice to 22. We are now starting to emphasis to get more players at the pre-season practice both to train and to start to get the players to bond as a team. We put out to the players to come up with a list of things they like to do so we can look for things they have in common to do as a group activity. This will hopefully allow us an avenue to take a bunch of individuals and turn them into a team.

Moving Foward

Well this week has seen a few more players showing up to pre-season practice. The word finally seems to be getting out among the players. The three quarterbacks are starting to show some signs of improvment. If they continue to improve at this pace they will be more than ready for the comming season. I am starting to get some of the local meadia on board to see it we can start a media campain to get more players and more community support but more on that later as things develop.

Things are starting to roll

With the rosters starting to grow and parent meetings in the works things are getting ready to kick into gear for the Aroostook Football League. Tonight with be the first formal practices for the quarterback and those who would like to try to be a quater back. Tonight will consists mostly of looking at body mechanics of the prospective quarterback and doing some agility drills. Hopefully we will have a good showing and maybe pick up a player or two who have good potental.