Hawks and friends of the Hawks,
A lot has happened since I last blogged. I'll do my best to consolidate my thoughts but still get some things that need to be covered.
Shelton Game Comments: It was good to get a game under our belts. The outcome was not was everyone was hoping for. First and foremost, Shelton has a very good team with lots of numbers. They were a team that made it very deep into the playoffs last year and likely will again. Even though the score was not a good indicator of this, the Hawks showed improvements in many areas from a year ago. When the offense was able to execute, it can be very explosive very quickly. The defense was in the correct positions (especially after half) but we were just not able to make tackles. Last year after game #1 our offense was not "fluid" at all and defensively we just could not even get close enough to tackle. Improvement is there and that shows a lot of promise of good things to come during the season.
Some concerns that I saw from this game include execution and not just for the first 1-2 seconds of each play but maintaining effort/execution for the duration of the play. Don't quit until the whistle blows.
Staying Healthy: For the betterment of our program, its important that every player does everything that they can to stay healthy. After the Shelton game, we had some guys that took a beating playing both ways for an entire game. Hopefully they took the coaches advice and either went to physical therapy in Aurora Saturday morning at 7 AM or stretched and iced as much as possible over the weekend. We need each player as close to 100% for each practice during the week. My hope is to have all bodies "on deck" for every practice.
We have a PT guy (Jordan) that comes to Hampton on Tuesday and Thursday mornings and will evaluate our athletes free of charge. Also student athletes can receive free evaluations by going to the Memorial Health Physical Therapy offices in Aurora West of the hospital. If you get to Aurora by 7 AM M-F, they will get you in, get you treatment and get you out so you can still get to school on time. Please take advantage of these free sources. They have been very good to us and kept many of our athletes able to go when otherwise they probably wouldn't be able to.
PLEAE INFORM THE COACHES OF ANY INJURIES THAT YOU MAY HAVE SO THEY CAN HELP YOU PROCEED WITH TREATMENT!
Links to pages: I'm placed a new "widget" on the blog. On the right had side, I've listed three links to places that likely would interest members/viewers on the blog. If there are other links that you would like to see added to this list, please let me know and I"ll add them.
Stay tuned for more but out of time for now.
Coach Miller
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