The Varsity football team is having a solid start to the season. Every single individual on the team is eager to develop themselves as better athletes. As people run down to the turf field with their helmets, pads, and cleats, the field starts to become filled with energy and excitement. Varsity football usually practices together with the JV football team.
At 3:15 pm, everyone makes two lines to jog the turf field. After that, the team makes a line of four people every five yards and starts the warm-up session. As we hear the clap, starting slow and going faster, the team gathers up and then has a separate practice depending on their position: Linemen, bumping into each other and tackling, quarterbacks throwing the football, and receivers catching a well-thrown ball made by the QBs. So far, the first half of the practice is done by positions individually, and the other half, the whole team practices the plays and formations. Everyone has a perfect memory of the playbooks posted on myEBS. When the 11-man formation is ready and hears “set, go”, everyone rushes to reach their goal as it’s a real game. After the practice ends, the whole team gathers up again and takes their knee on the field, reminding themselves to become one percent better every day, as Coach Terry says. The team is looking forward to the scrimmage and joint practice happening at Deerfield Academy on September 24th. There is also our first game of the season upcoming against Cardigan Mountain School. The team will practice harder to achieve victory and take revenge for last year.
Our team has a strong roster this year, and the practices are led by our wonderful coaches, Mr. Jim Fay, Mr. David Goodrow, Mr. Ejaaz Jiu, Mr. Dorsen Joseph, Mr. Richard Lee, Mr. Seven Terry, and our head coach, Mr. Jack Faulstick.
Our players are Duncan Bedell ’27, JJ Bones ’27, Peter Brown ’27, Alden Dacus ’26, Colin Galli ’27, Martin Gilmore ’27, Chase Greene ’26, Lachlan Heaney ’28, Adrian Hsu ’27, Sam Hunter ’26, Johnny Jacobs ’26, Ryan Kang ’26, Edward Kim ’26, Liam Kim ’26, Riggins Kopcza ’27, Eason Li ’26, Billy Neary ’26, Pres Petrizzi – Richmond ’27, Lawson Pollard ’26, Jason Sim ’26, Henry Stevenson ’26, Jake Thompson ’26, Caden Washburn ’26, Eason Xu ’26, Jangwon Yoon ’26, and Paco Zhang ’26.