Incoming freshmen will get a chance to play high school football this Spring for the first time.
This was some of the information relayed to eighth-grade boys during a football meeting Friday. The eighth-grade meeting was one of two held Friday with the other one focused on sixth and seventh-grade boys.
Peng Zhang and Christian Gates were among the eighth-graders who attended the eighth-grade football meeting. They said the meeting was led by coach Matt Terry, who provided information about the upcoming football season.
“He talked about being good and playing and mainly schedule stuff,” Gates said about Terry’s talk at the meeting.
Zhang said Terry talked about how much more strict Terry is on the freshmen than coaches are on the eighth-graders.
“He said he was really strict on Summer Pride and attendance,” Zhang said.
Summer Pride is Spring Ball for the Duncan High School Football Team.
During April, eighth-grade football players will go to the high school to practice with the high school football team. Updates about the football schedule and any additional information will be relayed to the team members through the Rooms app.
Things are expected to get underway toward the beginning of next month, when the high school football program hosts a football parents meeting. The meeting will take place at 2 p.m. April 6 at high school locker room facility in the conference room.
Other schedule information includes:
April 28 through 30: Eighth-graders taking a bus to the high school seventh hour with pick up at 3:30 p.m.
May 1 through 15: Eighth-graders taking a bus to the high school seventh hour with pick up at 3:30 p.m.
May 19 through 23: Spring Ball at the high school, through seventh hour.
May 27 through 28: Spring Ball at the high school (no school)
June 2 through July 31: Summer Pride from 7 to 9 a.m. Monday through Thursday at the Duncan High School Football Field
Aug. 4 or 11: Possible first day of practice (to be determined)
