Harrison Cub Football has become a part of the "Current Projects" section, as my son, Dylan, (#13) plays on this team.
I missed the first game of the season due to a prior commitment to document the troop deployment of the 163rd National Guard Field Artillery unit,
but the remainder of the season's games will be posted here.
** on a personal note**
I have watched many of the kids on this team play since they were 9 and 10 years old, and it has been fun to follow them with my camera as they
have grown. Many of these kids also played for the Lakeview Titans, and without going into the championships they won, I would like
to thank one man; Coach Mike McCool, for his fairness, and kindness, to my son inparticular, but to every kid he's ever coached!
Coach McCool is the kind of man who would work all day, then start picking up kids who needed a ride to get to practice,
then when the sun had set and practice was "officially" over, he would stay and work with kids or just talk to them about football.
We need more men in this world like Coach McCool training our kids.
He takes some flack from other coaches for his "lip", but he did two things that I hope every kid at Lakeview Optimist Football observed and took with them;
1) He never lied, or bowed to the politics so prevelant in youth sports today, and 2) He always gave a kid a chance, and an even break!
Thanks, Mike, for taking my son under your wing and preparing him, not just to play football, but for the "life lessons" he learned from you!
It was an honor to have been asked by Coach McCool's assistant to create a collage commemorating his years of coaching several of the kids who now play
for Harrison Cub, and the presentation of it following a great game, and a "Super Bowl" victory in double overtime, last year, is something I will never forget!
Click here to view "Remember the Titans"
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Click any photo below to go to the web gallery for each Harrison Cub game.