Summer football hits next phase

With the school year well in the rearview, Edmond’s high school football squads have opened up and begun preseason practices and preparations aimed at bettering them come late August. Memorial’s new-look squad under the new direction of head coach Luke Orvis was one of the first teams to hit the turf when their outer-shell got their first of four scheduled workouts as part of a 7-on-7 that featured Edmond North, Yukon and Putnam City High School yesterday evening. Both the Bulldogs and Huskies have 7-on-7 workouts scheduled as part of the group for the next three weeks, and the two schools’ full-summer workouts, named Summer and Husky Pride respectively, will begin next Monday at 7 a.m. With most of Edmond’s 6A waiting until next week to start their camps and practices, Oklahoma Christian Academy hit their third day of Eagle Pride today. Academy comes off their most successful season in school history and will now work to temper expectations, fill holes left by outgoing seniors and get their new core of soon-to-be standout athletes air-time during a summer football camp tour. Santa Fe’s crew of defending city champs begin their summer with warm-season workouts, too. Alongside this week’s summer lifting workouts under the direction of coaches Kyle White and Joe Peeler, the team will host their Hershey Track Meet on Saturday. Starting at 7 a.m., the roster has the booster-club-supporting meet scheduled to go until 7:30 Saturday evening, with concessions open and money directly benefiting the squad. Finally, Deer Creek’s varsity roster started its first workouts on Monday with the blue crew hitting the Antlers Training Course. Meeting four days a week from now until July 27, the team will undergo the self-titled training regimen that’s been “designed to teach athletes total effort and speed.” The workouts are consistent with weight and speed training, and the series will only take off days on the week of July 2 through 6.

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SUMMER FOOTBALL HITS NEXT PHASE

AARON ALBERTSON

Edmond Sun | 6/20/2018

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