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Football i more than a bunch of guy Golden Gate Bridge. Being with the
in pads and helmets hitting each other. same group of people makes us closer.
When you play CHS Tiger football you're We have a week during the summer that
part of the brotherhood. We're together we call "2 a days;" we stay at the school
everyday for 11 months out or the year, for a week and condition, play 7 on 7,
every morning during the ummer and and have competitions with drills. We
every day after school. We are a family; work out before every sum mer practice
we stick together no matter what happens. screaming and yelling at each other to
The team is together so often that even make us physically stronger. When one
when it's not football sea on, we are player is able to bench, power clean, or
till together. Whether it's practice or in squat a certain amount of weight it makes
game, we play for each other; we a II have another player want to do more and get
the same goal in mind. When you mix stronger. We work so long and so hard
skill and emotion into a game you can't because we all have the same goal in
be defeated. We have stickers made with mind and that i to go to Orlando and
names and number to how that we love come back with a State Championship
our family. When one falls we are there to Trophy.
support; we hold each other up like the · e olan (lOth)

etthed
The varsity tootball players
stretching before the game. The difference of a yard
Stretching is one ot the most could mean the win or loss
important actions tor the ot a game. Rakeem Battle IS
players to do betore the game working. pushing and even
so they don't cramp up or pull jumping to get what is needed
a muscle dunng a play. It they to win the game. The extra
do they'll have to sit out and yards that are needed to get
stretch again until the cramp a t 1 rst down, a touchdown. or
subsides or the pulled muscle maybe even to get 10 range tor
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relaxe . the t ield goal.