Wildcats kick off fall season with early practice Monday

From the Star Telegram

by Ryan Osborne

Football season kicked off bright and early Monday morning for some Tarrant County schools, even earlier at Kennedale and North Crowley. Those teams hit the field at 12:01 a.m. Monday. {{more}}

 

Everman and Fort Worth schools Arlington Heights, Carter-Riverside and Polytechnic waited until first light.

For the 15th straight year, Kennedale celebrated the beginning of football season by hosting a midnight madness practice Monday morning.

Players crowded around the doors to the locker room before midnight, shouting team chants before they were let in seconds after the clock struck 12.

After putting on practice gear, the Wildcats trained for just under two hours in front of an estimated 100 fans who spread out throughout the stands of Wildcat Stadium.

To head coach Richard Barrett, the practice ceremoniously makes the program the first in Texas to hit the field.

Conditioning drills and non-contact team instruction make up most of the two- to three-hour sessions until Friday. That?s when players don shoulders pads and the full-contact drills begin.

The regular season starts Aug. 27-29.

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