St. X Football Week 2
We start our second week of the season. We lost a tough game against Colerain in week 1, but we know its a long season ahead of us. Our goals still continue to be to win the GCL and head up north to the state title game in December.
We play the Pratville Lions from Alabama in Paul Brown Stadium, the home of the Cincinnati Bengals, Saturday at 8:00pm. This will be one of many games on Labor Day weekend at the Kirk Herbstreit Varsity Challenge. Pratville comes in with a great team to Cincinnati. They are back to back state champs in Alabama and were the # 2 ranked team in the nation in 2007. We both lost 18 starters during the off-season, but that doesn't mean that they won't bring it. Teams with this kind of tradition don't rebuild, they usually reload. Tjhey have outstanding speed and very disciplined athletes.
We play the Pratville Lions from Alabama in Paul Brown Stadium, the home of the Cincinnati Bengals, Saturday at 8:00pm. This will be one of many games on Labor Day weekend at the Kirk Herbstreit Varsity Challenge. Pratville comes in with a great team to Cincinnati. They are back to back state champs in Alabama and were the # 2 ranked team in the nation in 2007. We both lost 18 starters during the off-season, but that doesn't mean that they won't bring it. Teams with this kind of tradition don't rebuild, they usually reload. Tjhey have outstanding speed and very disciplined athletes.
On our part, we come in with a loss in week 1. Nothing has really changed in week 2. We still continue to prepare with the same intensity and discipline we do every week. The athletes and coaches have responded with their heads up high and focused intensity. Or conditioning and lifting on Saturday was high volume due to the extra day of recovery. We worked hard on our upper and lower body lifts and our conditioning included a lot of paced runs with adequate rest periods.
We had no injuries during the Colerain game, which is always nice after such a physical matchup. We continue to rehab and reconditioning our players that missed time due to tweaks and injured body parts from doubles in pre-season. We try not to give any of the injured players time off from training to maintain high conditioning levels. Our programs are geared towards training injured body parts without compromising strength levels around the entire body. This allows us to increase strength, flexibility and conditioning throughout rehab time.
We look forward to playing Pratville at the Herbstreit this weekend. For those of you who are close to Cincinnati this weekend, you should try to make some of the games either Saturday or Sunday. It's also the Cincinnati Bell - WEBN Fireworks on Sunday, so that will be about 400,000 people in downtown Cincy hanging out havin a good time . It's going to be great fun.
Sunday, Aug. 31st 2008
