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Training Camp Insider: Tecumseh
You don’t go 10-0 without wind sprints. On the day I was at practice last week, the Tecumseh football team wore out the grass on their practice field with a series of sprints in the August sun.
Head coach Kent Massie pushed them the whole way, yelling out reminders of their goals. Hosting a playoff game, beating Tippecanoe again, etc. The players had to hear him, even over the drumbeat of their feet hitting the ground again and again.
Here’s a little more of what they heard:
“All the way through!”
“Every time now!”
“That’s better.”
“Push it!”
“Get up there!”
“Let’s go. Let’s go get Tipp right here.”
The Arrows went 10-0 last year and lost in the second round of the playoffs. Duplicating that season would be quite a feat, but the Arrows have enough returning players to make that a realistic goal.
Tecumseh lost six starters, but it returns most of the guys who touch in the ball in the backfield: quarterback and three-year starter Riley Gault and running backs Dustin Holmes, Kyle Sanning and Jeremy Strahan. Those four players were the team’s top four rushing yard gainers in 2008.
“We have some pretty good depth in the back field,” Massie said. “Those guys are physical guys, and they run well.”
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