Quinton started playing tackle football in 3rd grade and he is now in 8th grade and plays for the middle school. He is in a really athletic grade so there are talented kids to compete against to get a starting position. He wears #72 which was his namesake's (Pa) high school number.
Part of the 8th grade football team (Quinton far left #72)
Quinton hasn't hit his growth spurt yet and is one of the smaller guys so to make up for that he has really worked on his technique and making sure he completes his assignments. He is on the starting offensive, left tackle, and sometimes he plays on the defense as the defensive end.
Quinton and #55 sub in and out for each other
In the huddle
Quinton holds his guy
Heading to the line
Quinton's football team has one game left in the season and so far they remain undefeated. The team they are playing here (La Plata) is from Silver City, New Mexico and in ten years Quinton's school has only beat them once until this day as they soundly beat them.
Quinton's three point stance
Playing football in Arizona is a hot, very hot endeavor. When practices start in August we are still often having 110 degree days and then you add full pads in synthetic fabrics that don't breathe and top it off with a helmet; this equals stank. Stink, stank, stunk. Teenage boys after football practices/games have a very unpleasant, strong odor. When we were playing a team, forty-five minute drive away, I overheard a mom tell her son he couldn't ride home with her but would have to take the bus home because he stank too much. (She was serious and he did ride the bus home.) I can only imagine what that locker room must smell like-blah! When Quinton gets in the car after a game Zany immediately wrinkles then covers her nose and says about twenty times, "Quints pooh." Meaning he really stinks and you should change him. If stinking was a sign of hard work, than Quinton is one of the hardest workers on the team and we love to watch him play but maybe we will drive home with the windows down and let some of that hard work dissipate!
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