The day was March 21st. The time? 6pm. Lacrosse season was in full swing and the tense air was trapped beneath the gray blanket above the twilit evening. The stakes were high against the Union Varsity team, and the sounds of cleats and sticks striking the ground and each other alike filled the field.

Football at Jenks is everything.

When Jenks students go to football games, what do we see? We see a bunch of sweaty, muscular boys tackle each other and try to get a win. We see boys with their jerseys tucked up, black paint all over their faces; we try to get them to glance at us from the sidelines. But we don’t see the hardships a high school football player goes through to win the games. We don’t see the physical toll the game takes on their bodies. When a high school football player is injured, it can be scary. How do Injured players feel when their future is left on the field?