It might be a strange think to say a week before June but it’s football season! At least at Vance County High School. Head football coach Aaron Elliott was a guest on Thursday’s SportsTalk to explain why football is happening.
“Our spring game was last Friday,” Elliott said. After practicing for ten straight days the Vipers took the field in an offense versus defense match up that saw the game end with the very baseball like score of 5-0. “What I took away from the game was competitiveness,” Elliott said.
The team now prepares for summer workouts and a trip to the FCA football camp at NC Wesleyan in Rocky Mount. At $185 per player, it was expensive but Coach Elliott had help. “Clearview Church helped out tremendously by paying for the entire camp,” Elliott said.
While the boys are preparing for next fall, the girls are taking the field tonight against Southern Durham for the first ever girl’s flag football team. “We have lots of female athletes who can get it done,” Elliott said of the lady Vipers. Next week the Vipers will take on Louisburg. Elliott thinks by next season the sport will be fully sanctioned and they will have a full season.
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