Strathmore football a ‘community’ association

Justin Seward
Times Reporter

 

The Strathmore High School Spartans are taking over full operation of their new school football team starting next season, while the Strathmore Community Football Association will continue with their separate senior team for all players to play.
Strathmore High School’s Kyle Larson felt that the school needed more involvement in the team and it was time to take over.
“We’re in position now having a staff member who’s keen and wants to be involved in the football for us to run it as the rest of our high school sports,” said Larson.
Larson’s hope is that they can maintain a great relationship with the community association so they can work with one another.
“It would certainly be our hope that we don’t want to see it fractured at all,” said Larson. “There have been people involved in community football for a long time and our hope is to take it to the next step now with more school involvement.
“I know parents in the association were interested in pursuing a high school-aged team because potentially there is a need for kids that are not in our school, but that has been a small number in the past few years.
“We had a parent meeting here last week. The high school team that was here with the community association, they still have to register with us through the school.”
The Strathmore Community Football Association is allowing players from other schools to participate.
“We were talking for some time to make this change and we lost some real good athletes once they hit that high school level (as) they weren’t allowed to play football and now that we’ve made that change those kids are excited to return and word’s getting out and it will be an exciting year,” said Brad Miedmass, a coach in the association. “As soon as we posted this change, it wasn’t even five minutes and I was being contacted by some of those kids at the Catholic School. It’s a move we should’ve done sooner but it’s the right time for the association to make this move, it’s more of what we’re about, which is community-based football.”
Kids will also be accepted from all the high schools and communities such as Standard, Gleichen and Langdon, which was not an option before.
Registration is open. Spring camp, which will begin in May, will be $60, and the regular season will be $170.
There are also ongoing off-season training sessions, which are available to the players at Target Fitness.
Any players that are interested can e-mail Sean Seafoot (skseafoot@hotmail.com).