AEMA Report – The Second Football Season

By Austin Perryman,
Student Equipment Manager
University of Tennessee-Chattanooga

Spring football is altogether one of the most memorable seasonal sports to be involved in as both a high school player and a FCS student manager. I’ve been lucky enough to have been involved as both.

Just before my last spring at Lincoln County High School in Fayetteville, TN I hurt my back doing hang-cleans. It wasn’t much at first, but as the spring went along, my back started hurting more intensely and more often. I made it through spring practices, but not summer conditioning. I visited a doctor and decided that it wasn’t worth it. I decided to quit playing altogether because of back pain. I told our head coach Don Thomas that I was done playing after our first summer practice, but I still wanted to help the team by b....The full article can only be seen by subscribers.
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