Changing the Game By Anna Kate Terry Cameron Terry (10) is number 10, and a Defensive player on the LCHS football team. He plays Cornerback, which in his words, is a position where he guards the other team’s wide receivers. “It means I'm on defense and I guard their wide receivers on the other team," Terry says. It’s a pretty important position, which means the way he trained for it must have been very important too. Terry gives an inside account of how the practices usually work, talking about how the team started spread out in different places and slowly came back together, and how towards the end of the season, that changed. “During the first half of the season, we would do our offensive position and our defense position individually and then do team after the individual time for each one of those. Towards the end, we split it up into an offensive and a defensive thing. Some people were only on defense and some people were only on offense. We started doing ‘just focus on your one position the whole entire practice’," Terry said. While both practice plans seemingly satisfied the player, it was obvious the switch in technique made an impact considering they won the last game of their season. Another impactful switch made was the gain of the new head coach, Jarnigan. Terry explains how the switch of coaches affected the team as a whole. “The morale got a lot higher. We went from a dictatorship to somebody who wants to build us up and get a lot better and have fun at the end of the season. …We started getting a lot more excited for those last two games,” Terry said. He felt the same way as the rest of the team did about Jarnigan’s takeover, speaking back on it as one of his favorite parts of the season. “[My favorite part of the season was] definitely the end when Coach Jarnigan took over as head coach… In the bus, we were used to being completely silent, locked in, and honestly, doing that made me nervous for a game. But with Coach Jarnigan, we started bringing a speaker on the bus, and listening to music before, it really got us excited for the game, and in the right mindset to win,” Terry said. Football had ups and downs this season, and when asked about downs, Terry was quick to point out the eight game losing streak they just barely were able to break. “We went on [an eight] game losing streak… Yeah, pretty much the whole middle. Before the first one and the last one was a losing streak. That whole stretch was pretty bad," Terry said. A sad legacy, but one to be remembered. The most important thing Terry will remember about this season was fighting alongside the people that fought hard to be there with him. “[I'll remember] making it through the first eight games of the season with my brothers on the football field,” Terry said. From a less than exciting football season, comes a player with lots of exciting input to share.