start of foot-
"
Ex-Mountaineers
eye big year in
collegiate ranks
Several for-
mer Kings
Mountain
High football
players were
reporting to
college cam-
puses for the
ball practice Gary Stewart
this week.
Frank s
Hebnoun Editor
member of the
1998 KMHS Western
Championship team, will be
starting for the third straight
season as a defensive lineman
at East Tennessee State
University.
The 6-2, 265-pound junior has
shown steady improvement, as
has the entire Buccaneer team,
over the past two seasons.
Hopper made 36 tackles last
year, including five for losses of
25 yards, and 3.5 sacks for mi-
nus 22 yards. He also forced
three fumbles.
The Bucs, who were 6-5 last
year, have a host of starters re-
turning as well as some top
notch JUCO transfers. They're
expecting to challenge for the
Southern Conference champi-
onship.
They face a rugged.schedule,
though, which includes an
opening season game at
Pittsburgh. Local fans can
make a short drive and see
Hopper in action at Furman on
October 20 at 2 p.m., and at
Wofford on November 3 at 1:30.
Also joining the team at ET-
SU this year will be freshman
linebacker Lamar Beam of
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HB Four former Mountaineers
will help lead the Mars Hill
Lions into action this fall.
Junior Andy Leigh, one of
Hopper’s teammates on that "98
KM outfit, will be starting at left
guard for the third year in a_
row. Leigh should be a candi-
date for All-Conference honors
in the SAC-8 this fall.
Sophomore Joe Williamson,
yet another member of that “98
KM eleven, came out of the
spring as the starting wide re-
ceiver and he has worked hard
over the summer to be able to
hold that position.
Two other Mountaineers -
freshmen linemen Kenny
Moore and Jarvarous Wilson -
plan to walk-on at Mars Hill.
H Kings Mountain's Matt |
Ash is trying to make the team
at Western Carolina University
as a free safety. :
Ash, an All-Conference quar- :
terback the past two seasons at
KMHS, received some scholar-
ship help in athletics and aca-
demics, but has not yet made
the Catamounts’ roster.
According to his father, KMHS
assistant coach Alfred Ash, the
WCU coaching staff has indicat-
ed Ash could play as a fresh-
man.
If he does, he'll join a host of
local players on the team.
Freddie Woodson, a 1999 Shrine
Bowl player from Crest, is a
red-shirt freshman wide receiv-
er.
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The Kings Mountain Herald
August 9, 2001 Section B Page 1
ARR
BEATING THE HEAT
High schools take precautions
By BEN LEDBETTER
Staff Writer
With football practices under-
way in North Carolina, differ-
ent places have different ways
of staying cool in the August
weather.
The issue has become a larger
one with school systems and
football coaches after the heat-
related deaths of Minnesota
Vikings lineman Korey Stringer
and University of Florida fresh-
man Eraste Austin.
School systems, like football
teams, are structured different-
ly. Gaston County Schools,
which has eight high schools
employs a full-time athletics di-
rector. Kings Mountain District
Schools, which has one high
school, has it handle its own
athletic program.
With the extra scrutiny now
being placed on safe heat proce-
dures, school officials said they
have been taking heat-related
percautions for years.
Kings Mountain head coach
Dave Farquharson said he em-
phasizes conditioning in the
summer so players will be
ready for practice.
Farquharson and his assis-
tants are not the only ones re- -
sponsible for watching over the
Mountaineers’ football prac-
tices.
Kings Mountain athletics
trainer Adam Elliot, who also
monitors other fall sports prac-
tices, has the right stop football
practice if he feels the team
needs an extra water break,
Farquharson said.
Farquharson said although
the weather has been cool for
practice, he is going to pay at-
tention to the team’s heat safety
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Kings Mountain High offensive lineman Matt Wilson takes a wa-
ter break during practice.
procedures before it warms up
again.
and humidity lately.”
Telling students to practice,
“We'll follow the ones we especially after the recent foot-
have more closely,” ball player deaths, can be diffi-
Farquharson said. “We really cult.
haven't had the searing heat “Anytime you have a college
to help gridders stay cool in hot weather
athlete like the kid in Florida,
and especially a professional
athlete, it’s hard to tell kids they
have to run and do that stuff to
stay in shape,” Farquharson
said.
The attitude toward staying
hydrated has not always been
the same as it is now.
Cherryville head coach Steve
Wilson said when he was com-
ing through high school, he
went through a two to three
hour practice with no water.
The water spigot runs
throughout Cherryville’s prac-
tice.
“We keep water running con-
tinuously,” Wilson said. “Water
is available to kids at practice
from start to finish.”
Although there are water
breaks every 20 to 25 minutes,
Wilson said water is available at,
any time.
Gaston County Schools ath-
letics director Butch Adams
said each school has a trainer or
first responder.
Adams takes an extra step to
ensure heat safety in practice by
calling Carolinas Medical
Center heat expert Elton
Hawley each day. Based on the
heat index, if Hawley deter-
mines it is too hot to work out,
all fall sports practices are
moved to 6 p.m.
Adams said pushing stu-
dents too hard can do damage
to them as well as not working
them hard enough.
“It’s a fine line,” Adams said.
“You certainly have to train the
students hard enough so they
are in shape. You don’t push
them over the line where it does
damage. You just have to moni-
tor it and take all the safety pre-
cautions you can.”
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