The seventh grade KLMS football team will be starting their spring football program in the coming weeks of school. After last season’s 3-3 record, the team will be attempting to get extra training in to improve their record and performance on the field. It will also allow new players to join football before the season starts.
Every other day in athletics for the coming weeks of spring, all of the football team members will be getting extra training in by going to the field in period. The team will be working on fundamentals such as tackling and formations to try and get the upper hand in the coming season. This also presents an opportunity for new people who would like to play football next season to “try out” in a sense and get a feel of their role, especially since they added a new defensive formation.
Seventh grade football player Nicholas Salas, plays Center and Nose for the KLMS team. Salas feels enthusiastic about spring football.
“I really like the defensive formation because one of our main issues last season was not being able to make tackles and now I think that’ll be a lot easier to do that,” Salas said. “We also now have a lot of newer people that I think would be better for the team than the current roster.”
One thing about spring football is that people get to try out new and different positions depending on what the coaches think. This is what happened to seventh grader, Hunter McCracken, who switched from the receiver position to quarterback. “It’s a little harder for me because I’ve never played quarterback, but it’s fun,” McCracken said.
“I am excited because I’m looking forward to doing a lot of new plays and routes and I get to try out a new position so I get to learn new things,” McCracken said. ”I think the training will improve our record for next season because we are working a lot harder than other schools and I think that it’ll pay off.”
One advantage that the spring football program gives to our school over the others is that if a player gets switched to a different position, then they have time to train just for that position. Players also get in game experience with that position by playing a game called GATA, made by the coaches.
“Over from last season to this spring, both my offensive and defensive positions were switched. I really like spring football because it gives me time to develop myself at those positions,” seventh graderBlake Walker said. “I also think GATA is really smart because we divided our whole class into two skill based teams so we get an even matchup as well as a really good learning experience.”
