St. Thomas HS, Sam Rayburn HS football players hit 1st day of practice with enthusiasm and humility

The official high school football season has began. 
 
Teams that did not attend the spring camp took to the pitch on Monday for preparations targeting the 2024 season. Consequently, the schedule for regular season games is as follows; the games commence on August 29. 
 
The occasion is sited in a school environment, the Sam Rayburn High School, where the football team woke up at 6 a. m. during a Monday. They are in a new district, which consists such district giants as Shadow Creek, Manvel, Dawson, and Pearland schools. 
 
New conditions are expected for the team, but everyone is looking forward to a change. 
 
It was one of those deals that I was just tapping my leg on things, I couldn’t sleep last night Sam Rayburn football coach Sergio Gonzalez said. 
 
Gonzalez is in his third year at Rayburn and already observed an increase in the participating number from 115 players at the beginning to 180 players on Monday. 
 
“We are disciplined here, If you make a mistake, do not lower your head, If you lower your head, somebody will come and lift it. ” Sam Rayburn offence line Angel Roman. 
 
”It’s a team effort and that’s what we like to do and that’s what we do, we go out there like no one else can and compete,” he uttered Haven Livingston the running back of Sam Rayburn. 
 
The values that are established at Sam Rayburn concern family orientation, trust, and brotherhood. 
 
The most crucial of them all is again brotherhood. Football goes far beyond W and L. It is something that reflects real life as it is. Things that you learn in the college which last a lifetime. 
 
“This year a lot different everybody wants to win as a team, I feel like we going to do that this year,” said Sam Rayburn quarterback Malachai Rivas. 
 
Just like what the football team did: Practice begets performance, and exactly, to be good, one has to work hard; one cannot just wake up one day and expect that things will go well; in football, in life, if you want something, go and get it, Rivas explained. 
 
Rayburn believes that the bonding of the team and the training that was done during the offseason would translate to party crashers for some of the highly esteemed schools within the Houston region. 
 
Thus, all summer, people work as a team, and Rayburn wide receiver H’Rei Jones says: ‘We are ready to come back and attack it’. 
 
‘It mirrors life because if you just sit there, it’s going to pass you by’, Football doesn’t wait for you to come back, You got to get up and work for it, work for your spot,’ Jones said. 
 
Moving on to St. Thomas High School, matters off the field were initiated with a big proclaimation on a Monday morning. 
 
‘What is certain is that if one ever experiences a concussion he or she is prone to have more of them,’ Dr. Ronald Andrew, a St. Thomas HS alumnus and member of the board said. 
 
Andrews has experienced concussions and head injury in his working career as a doctor and thus provided Guardian Caps for all the players for the football team. 
 
‘Anything we can do to reduce head injuries at an early age, it will be an ounce of prevention that will hopefully make them never have to go through it and probably give them a lifetime of success’, Andrews said.