HCC to get football team

Andrea Roberts
Times Intern

 

Holy Cross Collegiate (HCC) remains optimistic about a future football team following possible success in their upcoming spring football camp. Students have already shown much interest over the years. However, it was the initiative of Joshua Jalbert and Michael Annicchiarico, both HCC teachers, which allowed for this opportunity to occur.
“We were pretty gung-ho about it,” said Jalbert, the athletic director at the school.
“We were pretty excited to get something going so having each other to work off of was a big part of it.”
Now that the idea has been approved, the school will be hosting a three-week-long football camp for boys interested in playing. The camp will allow the students to learn the fundamentals of the game, such as tackling and blocking, in order to prepare them for a number of skirmishes planned at the end of the camp.
According to Jalbert the first scrimmage will be against St. Joseph’s Collegiate from Brooks and will then celebrate the end of the camp with a jamboree. These will involve a number of different teams competing against each other.
If the camp is successful, Jalbert hopes to officially join the Alberta School’s Athletic Association (ASAA) six-man football league in September. The league was started about five years ago in order to allow for smaller schools and communities to compete competitively.