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LCA coach takes different approach
Published July 10, 2009
LOGANVILLE — The time between the end of one high school football season and the start of another often seems long. But with schools starting fall terms earlier and earlier, the sounds of football activity in the air are a welcome sign of things to come.
Andre King, Loganville Christian Academy athletic director and head football coach, begins his second season at the helm and recently said his troops have been diligently preparing for the upcoming campaign.
“We took a week off after spring practice,” said King, “but ever since
then the guys have been working hard on their off-season lifting and conditioning programs.”
King said the Lions are in the weight room four days a week and are on the field doing football-specific drills once a week.
“The kids have been working extremely hard, preparing the bodies for the upcoming season,” King said.
The head Lion said his staff made a decision to forego outside camps in favor of teaching the players his plays and the LCA way of doing things.
“We believe we are better off working with our own players this way,” King said.
The Lions are working diligently in the off-season to put a difficult 0-10 record of a year ago behind them.
LCA, which had previously showed great success in the Independent Christian Schools of Georgia-Alabama (ICSGA), made the jump in 2008-09 to the more competitive Georgia Independent Schools Association (GISA).
School administrators and athletic department personnel made the decision, citing a number of concerns, to play a junior varsity schedule in the 2009-10 school year.
“This year, we will be playing against schools who are in similar situations to us – new, start-up programs or schools who have had to scale back their own programs for a variety of reasons,” King said.
King said the strength of his 2009 team resides in the backfield and in the receiving corps.
“Matt Kirkland started the majority of games at quarterback last year and he has the experience to lead our offense,” King said.
The head coach also touted the receiving skills of Brett Gealy and Hunter Cook as being vital to the success of the Lions season.
King’s major area of concern, as it is for most gridiron programs, is the up-front guys.
“If the other team has players with more ‘meat on the bones’ than you, it poses a problem. It forces you to be much more efficient in play-calling and getting rid of the ball,” King said.
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