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The Kennedale Wildcat football season kicks off at midnight tonight at Wildcat Stadium at Kennedale High School. This is the eighteen straight year for the Coach Richard Barrett led Wildcats to start their first practice of the new year in the first hour of the new day. If it works, don?t monkey with it. {{more: continue …}}
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This year, the Wildcats are again ranked in the top ten for Class 4A Division 1 schools. But, it will be a challenging year for Coach Barrett and his coaching staff as the Wildcats had one of their strongest classes graduate last year along with the best finish by any Wildcat team ever as the state runner-ups.?
Kennedale will be finding replacements for 7 departing All-State players as well as finding replacements for most of the starting position on both sides of the ball.
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But as opponents of AD and Head Coach Barrett know well, he has a system that develops players so that there is little drop off of skills levels from year to year. It is also important to note that two all-state players return ? running back DJ Kirven (Sr) and defensive back JD Coffey (So) plus 6 all-district players: quarterback Evan Jowers (Sr), wide receiver Jaden Smith (Sr), defensive lineman Jamal Marshall (Jr), defensive end Darian Scott (Sr), outside linebacker Jalen Myers (Sr) and tackle Cameron Hanna (Sr).
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A travel schedule to love ?
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The first scrimmage this year will be against Waco LaVega at Waco on August 17 but a? look at the Kennedale football schedule and you got to say that it doesn?t get much easier than this, travelwise. Take away that one only real road trip to Waco? (90 miles south), the rest is just a piece of cake.?
Kennedale faces 12 opponents, counting two scrimmages this year. Six are home games, two are next door at Clark Stadium just 8 miles away, another game is at FWISD Handley Field less than 10 miles up Loop 820. Two other games are just a skip and a hop down US 287 to Midlothian Heritage (23 miles) and Alvarado ISD Head Stadium (25 miles).
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Next year in the swap of home and away games, Kennedale will swap travel time south to Waco, Alvarado and Heritage for more miles up north and west to visit Springtown (50 miles) and Decatur (52 miles) and then a trip to Castleberry (20-23 miles). It all equal out.?
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