The Freeport Pretzel Football team practices for game day through hard practices, high expectations, and focus mindsets to qualify for the NIC-10 playoffs for the second year in a row.
Head Football Coach Anthony Demond said their goal is always to win and to get better than they were last year. They practice hard; they raise expectations, and if they want to be great, they have to practice great.
” I want the team to come together as a family, to understand what we’re trying to do here is not easy and lets be successful, and to be successful you have to have successful habits daily, just want them to be successful every day,” Dedmond said.
Players enjoy their frontline and how they’re always competing with each other at practice to make games easier.
“No one person is better than anyone else, and if you want be great, you have to practice great,” said Demond.
Players and coaches both believe the whole team is equally good and that there’s no one better than someone else.
“Our defensive line are really the top ones in the state in my opinion,” Assistant Coach Ben Swords said. “I think they are always competing and giving our next levels something to work with.”
“I feel like it’s not really one person on our team,” senior player Davion Douglas said. “I feel like all through our depth chart, I feel like we’re just gonna be good this year.”
The team hopes to have a strong defense and offense this season.
“I think our defense is gonna have a nice shutdown game and our offense is gonna put up some points,” said Swords.
This season, the team hopes to make the playoffs.
“We look forward to not just making it back to the playoffs but winning game by game and making it to state,” Swords said.
The Pretzels face the Harlem Huskies this Friday, Oct. 3 at Freeport High School for the homecoming game.
