Team Profile
Photos Courtesy of Chattanooga Preparatory School
Q&A with Coach Eugene Banks
Q. How would you characterize this year’s team?
A. I would say hungry. They want to make a name for ourselves.
Q. What will be the keys to your success?
A. Discipline and simply believing in ourselves.
Q. Who will be your key leaders on the team?
A. Marquis Gardner, Austin Jones, Zaire McCrary, Jaydan Parker, Jaelen Banks, and Lon’Deon Kellogg.
Q. What are your biggest reasons for optimism?
A. This season, I feel that we would match up well against anyone physically and athletically.
Q. What will keep you up at night?
A. Practicing. Since we don’t have our own field, every day is a
question on where we will practice to prepare for away games.
Q. What can you build on from last year?
A. We will build off the amount of kids who received significant playing time and the fact that we returned all of our players with experience.
Q. Any lessons learned from last year?
A. We have to become more disciplined to offset the amount of youth that we have on our team.
Q. Will we see anything different this year?
A. We should be a more physical and more disciplined group this year and moving forward.
