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CHIPPEWA TOWNSHIP — As the sun began to set Thursday night at Blackhawk High School, there was a different feeling around this Cougars program under first-year head coach Jake Wickline who takes over after a year filled with uncertainty.
Throughout Thursday’s practice, Wickline sprinted up and down the field encouraging and coaching his players after each rep as a big boom-box blasted music across the field.
Wickline believes that with his energy on the field, his players can pick up on it and use it to help propel them into this season.
“All I have is energy,” Wickline said. “I played with a lot of energy and that energy and enthusiasm is contagious so if you set the tone with your energy and the kids see that, the kids will follow. It is fun being out here and if you don’t have any energy while you are out here I don’t know what you’re doing because it’s easy to have energy when you are out on the field.”
Blackhawk head coach Jake Wickline coaches his team during a seven-on-seven drill at Blackhawk High School on Aug. 8 during the team’s heat acclimation practice.
The new Blackhawk head coach is no stranger to Beaver County as he was a standout at Riverside and has been around the county his entire life.
As camp continued to push onward for the Cougars, as Wickline watched his team compete against one another during practices, everything that he saw out on the field did not come as a surprise to the first-year head coach.
“Overall, these kids have been very respective to what we have been coaching them over the past several months and that does not come as much of a surprise. I have been in the county my entire life and people know what kind of kids Blackhawk kids are and there is a certain edge to this community so these kids have responded the way that we thought that they would have…
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Author : Beaver County Times
Publish date : 2024-08-14 17:19:14
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