Hardin sets high goals for upcoming football season

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Hardin sets high goals for upcoming football season

By JASON FOCHTMAN

Updated: 08.10.09

Last year’s loss to New Waverly in the second round of the playoffs is fresh in the minds of the Hardin football player as they prepare for the upcoming season.

Senior running back Mitch Villemez said the loss brought the team together and has resulted in the increased energy from the team.

“It [gives] us something to work for,†Villemez said, referring to getting past the second round. “Hardin [has] never [gotten] past that second round, so we’ve got to reach and get ready for it.â€

During the first week of practice, the Hornets showed tremendous effort and outstanding attitudes, Head Football Coach and Athletic Director Larry Haynes said.

“Right now they’re really working hard,†Haynes said. “Their effort and intensity in practice have just been above and beyond the call of duty. At this time point of the season, we’re in great shape.â€

In addition to changes in the defensive, the Hornets have overhauled their conditioning workouts.

The workouts are geared toward injury prevention that focuses on taking stretching and adopting it with conditioning.

Toward the end of practice, the teammate competed amongst themselves during tire drills, where players conditioned by pulling a tire, attached with rope, behind them.

“It says we’ve got heart and that we’re going to push in the fourth quarter until we get the win,†said senior wide receiver Hunter Davis.

Having that energy at the end of practice is exactly what Haynes and his coaching staff have been preaching.

“That’s where you want to have it because that’s an important quarter of the game,†Haynes said. “Games are won or lost in that fourth quarter so that’s where you want it.â€

Davis said this year’s team has an urge to win following their second-round exist.

“We’ve gotten closer in the playoffs,†Davis said. “This year, I think we’re going to push it over the edge.â€

Inside receiver Colt Joyner races against fellow teammates during the tire pull toward the end of practice Thursday, August 6, at Hardin High School.

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