Off-season is keeping up
sports started on Monday, it marked the end of summer for the student-athletes or did it.
To stay competitive in high school sports today, teams have to keep up with the Jones, by participating in team camps, 7-on-7 workouts and weight lifting.
Plus, they have to balance other sports and allow time for their athletes to enjoy their time off.
“I think it has become the nature of the beast,” said Donegal coach Bill Groff.
“Everyone is doing the off-season stuff now. Every sport wants a piece of the kids, so you are trying to find the balance,” Groff said.
“I think the off-season has changed big time,” said L-S coach John Manion.
However at L-S, they don’t go overboard with the off-season workouts.
“We don’t believe in forcing the kids to do things in the off-season,” Manion said.
Over the summer, L-S works out up to 10 hours a week.
“We’ll go to a 7-on-7 here and thee. It’s good work, but until you are in pads you really don’t get anything out of it,” the L-S coach said.
“It hasn’t hurt us so far,” Manion said.
For football players at Columbia, it was a busy off-season. They participated in 7-on-7 drills at Penn State, Manheim, Hempfield and a few others.
“For us it’s not hard because we enjoy football,” said Brandon Felus, a starting lineman.
Assistant coach Dave Mowrer played high school football in the 1980s.
“Back then we didn’t do 7-on-7 because our kids played three different sports. Now, if you don’t focus all year round, then you get lost in the shuffle,” Mowrer said.
ELCO’s Mark Evans wants his players to enjoy the summer.
“”I think the thing we focus on is that they have got to have a summer to be kids,” Evans said.
“We focus on lifting and running. If they get together to throw, it is on their own,” Evans said.
“We as coaches have a tendency to overkill and that’s how you lose kids,” Evans said.
Another program with an active summer was Lancaster Catholic.
Coach Bruce Harbach said his team got together at least 430 times to throw.
“You have to because there is more going on and its needs when you have a wide open offense,” Harbach said.
Still, there’s caution as coaches don’t want to see their players show up hurt.
“You have to do it to keep up with the other teams because its the nature of the game now,” Harbach said.
To stay competitive in high school sports today, teams have to keep up with the Jones, by participating in team camps, 7-on-7 workouts and weight lifting.
Plus, they have to balance other sports and allow time for their athletes to enjoy their time off.
“I think it has become the nature of the beast,” said Donegal coach Bill Groff.
“Everyone is doing the off-season stuff now. Every sport wants a piece of the kids, so you are trying to find the balance,” Groff said.
“I think the off-season has changed big time,” said L-S coach John Manion.
However at L-S, they don’t go overboard with the off-season workouts.
“We don’t believe in forcing the kids to do things in the off-season,” Manion said.
Over the summer, L-S works out up to 10 hours a week.
“We’ll go to a 7-on-7 here and thee. It’s good work, but until you are in pads you really don’t get anything out of it,” the L-S coach said.
“It hasn’t hurt us so far,” Manion said.
For football players at Columbia, it was a busy off-season. They participated in 7-on-7 drills at Penn State, Manheim, Hempfield and a few others.
“For us it’s not hard because we enjoy football,” said Brandon Felus, a starting lineman.
Assistant coach Dave Mowrer played high school football in the 1980s.
“Back then we didn’t do 7-on-7 because our kids played three different sports. Now, if you don’t focus all year round, then you get lost in the shuffle,” Mowrer said.
ELCO’s Mark Evans wants his players to enjoy the summer.
“”I think the thing we focus on is that they have got to have a summer to be kids,” Evans said.
“We focus on lifting and running. If they get together to throw, it is on their own,” Evans said.
“We as coaches have a tendency to overkill and that’s how you lose kids,” Evans said.
Another program with an active summer was Lancaster Catholic.
Coach Bruce Harbach said his team got together at least 430 times to throw.
“You have to because there is more going on and its needs when you have a wide open offense,” Harbach said.
Still, there’s caution as coaches don’t want to see their players show up hurt.
“You have to do it to keep up with the other teams because its the nature of the game now,” Harbach said.
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