Lake Mary strikes fear into the hearts of other high school teams. We interviewed head coach Perry to see what Lake Mary does differently than the rest.

What do you think makes Lake Mary’s Football Team so dominant?

“The hard work In the off season, We go from January to August training for 10 weeks”.

What do you do different from other teams?

“We have great attendance in the summer, We have 25 coaches on staff that work with all levels who put in effort to win games”.

What do you think the team needs to work on to be more dominant?

“we need to stay grounded and stay focused, we need to continue to perfect our craft with our fundamentals like receiving and tackling”.

How is our coaching staff different from other schools? 

“The number of coaches, our coaching is like a brotherhood”

What would you like to see the team improve on this year?

“basically working on our fundamentals like defense and offense”

Junior center Cyrus Rodriguez is on the same page as Coach Perry.  From a player’s perspective, Rodriguez said the following:

Who do you think is gonna be our toughest opponent this year?

“Lakeland for regular season and whoever we play for states”

Do you think its gonna be a good season?

“yes we have an amazing team with great athletes on and off the field and we all have faith in god to have a good season”

Are practices tough?

“We practice hard everyday even if we go against our teammates we have to give each other good looks we know how the other team plays so yes it could be”

What is the offensive line like?

“Underrated in my opinion we drive people off the ball and give time for Noah Grubbs to throw we wake up every morning to go to the weight room, 6 in the morning to workout we are all focused and have high IQ on the line. But most importantly we are really close like family those are my brothers and we go through things together as one, one mistake is all of our mistakes.”

What do you think you need to work on to get better?

“i don’t think there’s one thing we need to work on to get better but there’s many things we could work and improve even if we are perfect at it we still put the work in to improve it and make it better for the next game, and always keep our faith in God.”