Team Profile
Photos by Jayla Blair and Jeffrey Carson
Q & A With Coach Drew Akins
Q: How would you characterize this year’s team?
A: Workmanlike. This group not only works when they are on football time, but works hard on their own time too.
Q: What will be the keys to your success?
A: Staying healthy is always a key to success. We also have to develop on both the offensive and defensive lines.
Q: Who will be your key leaders on the team?
A: Eli Denton (RB/LB), Brady Montgomery (WR/DB), and Jackson Gibson (TE/DL).
Q: What are your biggest reasons for optimism?
A: The character and personality of this team. Everyone works and pushes others to work.
Q: What will keep you up at night?
A: My kids, Lochlan and Brynleigh. And depth, always depth.
Q: What can you build on from last year?
A: I think another season making the playoffs (three straight now). Competing in the playoffs has become the standard here.
Q: Any lessons learned from last year?
A: I think we learned a lot about ourselves as a staff. We are either coaching things or allowing them. We have to live up to our standard.
Q: Will we see anything different this year?
A: Different players, same system.
Q: How would you characterize your team’s speed?
A: We have players who can stress a defense in all directions. Defensively, we have players who can run sideline to sideline and leverage the ball.
