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iruuries tougheh the year

The only time this football team was laid back was when injuries
caused many players to sit on the sidelines. TI1e number of injuries 0
this year's football team sustained looked somewhat like an Emer-
gency Room waiting list. A pulled groin here, an injured shoulder
there, and, oh, here comes a partially tom ACL
Injuries forced O:>ach Polk to switch up several positions and
even had starting halfback Brandon Kontor playing quarterback for a
couple of gan1es after Tyler Bergman suffered a groin injury.
'We were well coached," senior Clayton Zaugg said. "O:>ach
Polk did well with what he had." One of the most laid back
teachers at Mead High, Polk turned into an intense coach with
good motivational talks.
Although the tean1 was plagued with injuries, they still managed
to have fLm.
"I love the feeling of laying my shoulder right into someone's a
chest," senior Alex Carritt said. It was even fun for some people to
finally act "grown up."
the younger people," Clay said. But sometimes people had too much 1
"Being a senior is fun because you know you are a role model to

fun.
"People just didn't take football serious enough," junior O:>lby
Schutt said. 1
Weaknesses aside, Mead still gathered together three wins for
their season of eight games.

Football. (Front Row) Student Manager Nathan Raver, Tyler Bergman, Colby Schutt,
Alex Carritt, Brandon Kontor, Clay Zaugg, Jordan Larsen, Tyler Carlson, Student Man·
ager Austin Pickworth (Second Row) Student Manager Kelly Cooper, Brian Murray,
Matthew Heanue, Brian Cooper, Eric Scheer, Andrew Brunsting, Cody Moravec, Mark
Treptow, Student Manager Brian Pearson (Third Row) Daniel Parsons, Dustin
Take Down
Barris,TaylorDensberger,Jeff Chvatal, Brian Wolfe, Josh Sladky, Toby Jones (Last Row)
"• . rule.
Coach Dahl, Coach Rutt, Shane Divoll, Justin Johnson, Adam Rasmussen, Coach Jason Taylor Densberger gets tackled by Cedar Bluffs tough opposi·
tion. Despite Taylor's efforts, Mead fell by the third quarter mercy
Polk
""~Sports