Saturday Night Lights! Congratulations Jake & Camden Wildcats!
Posted on December 7, 2008
Filed Under General, Pictures
Most of my posts are about making life better in some way — improving health, deepening your spiritual connection, building strong, healthy, and happy relationships, and supporting other experts in these fields by letting you know what they’re up to. Today, I want to honor a group of young men who have brought a lot of joy and excitement to an entire community over the past several months — my son’s football team, the Camden County Wildcats!
The Wildcats compete at the AAAAA (5A) level in Georgia High School Sports; that’s the highest level of competition — the biggest schools with the biggest rosters, the biggest programs, and the biggest boosters. Football at this level is about as close to college football as you can get! If you saw the Wildcat’s training facilities, practice fields, weight room, film room, and their stadium — complete with brand-new artificial turf — you’d think you were at a Division II college. And if you saw the Wildcats play, you’d truly be impressed.
The Camden Wildcats are the only undefeated AAAAA team in the state at 14-0; and they have advanced to the AAAAA State Championship to be played in the Georgia Dome next Saturday, December 13, 2008 at 8:00 PM. The Wildcats will play the Peachtree Ridge High School Lions (12-2) for top honors at the top level of high school football. The game will be televised on Georgia Public Television, and broadcast on their web site at www.GPB.org.
These young Wildcats are truly an impressive group of young men. I’ve know some of these kids since they played little league football (and even coached some of them at that level); and they are absolutely some of the nicest and most respectful young men I’ve ever known. These young men are led by an amazing coaching staff, headed up by Coach Jeff Herron, who has a record at Camden County of 107-11! That’s an absolutely amazing feat in Georgia High School Football! Coach Herron brought the AAAAA State Championship home in 2003; and has advanced to the playoffs every year since 2000. Coach Herron is also one of the nicest people you could ever meet — always being thoughtful and kind to the kids while instilling confidence, honor, integrity, self-discipline, and heart in each of his players.
I played football in high school; and I’m not a big fan of sitting and watching anything (I’d rather be doing). But it’s impossible to live in this community and not be a fan of this team! And, speaking of fans, the Wildcat parents and fans are also the most dedicated and loyal fans I’ve ever seen — with the Woodstock Wolverines (from Cherokee County north of Atlanta) being the only other team I’ve seen that I would say matched the heart and spirit of the Camden Wildcat fans (and players). It isn’t unusual for Camden to show-up for road games with as many or more fans than the home team — even when the Wildcats traveled to Birmingham, Alabama to face Hoover High School (from the MTV show, “Two-a-days”)!
Camden, as a State AAAAA powerhouse, opened their season in the Georgia Dome with a 21-6 win over Norcross High School (another AAAAA power); and coach Herron made the motto for this season, “Dome-to-Dome.” True to his word, the Wildcats will end their season in the Dome — hopefully capping a perfect season with a Championship Ring!
Good Luck to Coach Herron and his Mighty, Mighty Wildcats; and congratulations on an amazing season!
Here’s a couple links to articles about Camden’s Semi-Final victory over the Newnan Cougars:
http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/printedition/2008/12/06/hsnew.html?cxntlid=inform_artr
http://www.jacksonville.com/news/georgia/2008-12-06/camden_county_pounces_on_cougars
Here’s a couple pictures taken of our Junior Linebacker (Jake) after their 27-7 win in the AAAAA Semi-Finals against Newnan High School:
Jake after beating Newnan
Pete, Jake, and Jenn in Newnan (It was 29-degrees!)
Yeah, that’s me and Jenn wearing our “Game Faces!”
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