The High School Football Team

framed itself in his lungs, abruptly burst, and released an amount of issue, which he kept on hurling while

the people he cares about. He writes his younger brother almost every day and sends

overconfident of himself and started being really cocky with his actions. The influences that I

"I had no idea there was this much tension between Chad and the other guys. I knew there was some tension, of course, but I didn't know there were threats of violence. I don't feel great now seeing this. It's all just so complicated. Chad is a complex guy with complex

to love music when he was at church listening to Gospel music. His mom wanted him to

because one of his lifelong friends was killed in a car accident so it affected his game and

better life for us. Another question that I had asked him was what’s your opinion on college is

believe that his dreams would come true. He admired college students he seen on the

He loves roaming around outdoors with his friends. They just hop on a train and go anywhere it leads to. When he’s not going to faraway places, you could find him exercising at the gym or playing his favourite sport, basketball. Other days when he’s relaxing at home, he’ll just turn on Spotify and listen to some rap music.

Freshman starter and center midfield Jack Thibodeau agreed that there were many areas in which the Spartans excelled during their first game. “I think we played as a team and we moved the ball really well,” he said. He also expressed that he is “excited to go on and win State.” Confidence is an aspect easy to find throughout this

He left home at 18 to go to college in Colorado. He remained at the school in Colorado for only a year because he felt as if he did not fit in. He did not come from a very wealthy family yet everyone he met at the school did. They had all expensive things, like cars and clothes, but he did not. He was happy leaving the school not because of all of those things but because he got to move closer to his family. He really enjoyed moving school but he felt it was hard adjusting because he moved to the school after everyone had already made friends. He thought it was hard trying to get included in groups of people who had already formed such strong bonds with each other. He was lucky enough to have a schedule in school that allowed him to work so he did not have to worry so much about money. He was financially stable in this stage which showed he was

The camera sprang to life. Cantilevered out on its metal arm, the camera, the culmination of weeks of work on top of years of experience, began filming its first game.

the conflict that was occuring in his life. He quickly came up with a lie as to why he

On how he spends his time: “I grew up in rural Iowa and have always been a farm boy at heart, so I like to be outdoors. Hunting, fishing, working in the woods. I do a lot of gardening at home. I have an orchard, and I’m planting trees with great regularity. We own a little bit of land in Central Illinois—50 acres that we manage as part of a forestry program. We’re doing a prairie grass restoration there, so I’m actually going out there this weekend to do some turkey hunting and also burning some of the grassland and wood to beat back the invasive species and make it better for wildlife.”

FS has many outings throughout the week. On a weekly basis, he goes grocery shopping, eats lunch with his housemate at the senior center, and goes out to eat at local restaurants. Other outings he enjoys regularly include getting a root beer at the mall, live music when the weather permits, and any events or picnics that