GHSA football teams capitalize on summer padded practices
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - We’re less than two months away from high school football season kicking off.
We were at Westside High School on Thursday morning where a bunch of our local teams hit the gridiron for a competitive padded practice.
There’s nothing football workouts under the summer sun to get the blood pumping and build anticipation for the season.
Practices and lifting sessions are great, but when it comes to football, the only way to know where you truly stand is by lining up across from someone else and turning up the heat.
Summer basketball is in session across the CSRA
The school year might be over, but that’s not stopping our local high school basketball teams from getting some work in. Summer ball is now in session across the CSRA.
“It’s good for us to be able to put helmets on and put shoulder pads on and have a chance for us to be physical. It gives us a chance to kind of see who’s going to collision each other and who’s going to be hard-nosed, who’s going to be physical, who’s going to block, who’s going to fit, who’s going to tackle, who’s going to do all those things that we ask them to do,” said Lee Huto, head football coach for Westside.
Each summer, the GHSA allows high school football teams to have four padded practices before pre-season workouts officially begin in August.
In order to get the most out of the handful of opportunities, teams hold t practices to test their skills and their physicality against other programs.
Evans Head Football Coach Barrett Davis said: “It’s good for all the teams to be able to see some different offenses and defenses and kind of put into practice some stuff you’ve been trying to implement and put in and get to put on shoulder pads for a day or two.”
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Westside invited Evans, Lakeside, Harlem, Washington-Wilkes and Grovetown down to Patriots Way to get some work in.
Lakeside Head Football Coach Steve Hibbitts said: “They get tired of being around each other and hitting on each other and so, it’s fun just to come out and have a little competition.”
All of the teams hope their hard work over the summer will lead to future success in the fall.
Grovetown Head Football Coach Cory Evans said: “It’s invaluable, just the fact that we can put pads on and bang on other people. It actually becomes realistic, because in my opinion, 7 on 7′s, OTA’s are okay, but none of it’s real football. So this is as close as we can get until we put on pads the first of August.”
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