Cougar Team Coming Together

After winter break our weightlifting numbers have swollen, to include up to 50- 60 guys, which is tremendous. As we have nearly the same number in winter sports, next season we will surely continue the tradition of having a large football team on the field and on our sideline. This not only gives a better chance of having all around more talent, but also an intimidation factor to other teams. This is a truth as every time an opposing team steps out of the tunnel each of us instinctively sizes them up, both at the size of their physical bearing and the size of the team (before games I always hear murmurs of the sizes of the opponent’s team and I’m also guilty of doing some sizing up of my own).

Now that I’ve lead you to the shadow of my topic, I just wanted to mention how pleased I am to see the team coming together this early. Anyways from this I would easily guarantee that at least 90% of the team is involved in some form of rigorous exercises on a daily basis, which is again outstanding.

We continue to weight lift every day but Wednesdays, and we have further implemented more lifts into our “regular” routine, which we so fondly call “supersets” or “killers”. These supersets not only include just our basic lifts, but auxiliary lifts for the few dozen seconds we aren’t lifting, thus insuring no rest time besides when we spot our weightlifting partners. This is strength and endurance to its fundamentals, exactly what our minds and bodies will require on the field this season.

The team (weightlifters largely) also can feel this vibe that our team is coming together and that we have successfully got the mass of the team practicing for next year’s season. The team knows that this is the year of the Cougars, the year we will head to the dome and be a better team than any other in the state. We have large amounts of talent, the mindset of hard work (weightlifting faithfully everyday), large amounts of players, and experienced coaches, the recipe for a winning season and for a run to the dome. Go Cougs! 231 days to kickoff at Linn-Mar.