Varsity Football Primed to Improve Record This Season
Varsity football strengthens their basic fundamentals
in hopes of improving further from last year’s record.
MOOR photo by YIBEI LIU SIMEON LAM
Sports Editor
After last year’s season record of 2-8, the varsity football team has worked hard under Head Coach Eric Bergstrom. In his first offseason of his coaching career, Bergstrom took advantage of the summer practices and pushed his players to set high expectations for themselves as individuals and as a team.
“Our players had a tremendous offseason and put in a lot of hard work,” Bergstrom said. “I expect [them] to play with great effort and display great sportsmanship so we can positively represent Alhambra High School.”
Throughout the summer and into the start of the new school year, the team has practiced through split offense/defense, individual work and a full team session. Sometimes the team would practice twice on Saturdays to condition, prepare and work on fundamentals to improve on their weaknesses, but the Moors feel that they are also much better equipped mentally this year.
“The team has shown that they are dedicated to the goals of the team,” Bergstrom said. “They have set high expectations for themselves because our focus was to develop work ethic and competition.”
However, the Moors were unable to get into a rhythm in their first game against the Arcadia Apaches on Aug. 29 with a final score of 0-40.
“If we can limit the mistakes that we make, we can be very good. We have a great group of seniors that push [us] to work harder,” junior quarterback Julio Garcia said after the game. “We had a rough start, but we are looking to bounce back and keep on progressing throughout the season.”
With the season barely underway, the Moors have plenty of opportunities, including their next home game against the Temple City Rams on Sept. 12 at 7 p.m.