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Coaches Corner with Bracken’s Hosea Stredic
Head Coach Hosea Stedic
The ReSporter will be having a weekly Coaches Corner with Coach Stredic this season as this will be an interesting time getting to know the ‘New’ Head Coach of BCS…hope you enjoy the talks.
The ReSporter: Coach Stredic, tell us how many years you have been coaching and where you were stationed.
Coach Stredic: “I have been coaching for 20 years now and the whole time I have been in El Paso….Faith Christian from 1994 to 1997, I coached at Jesus Chapel and then on to Bethel Christian till 2011. I went back to Faith Christian and that is where I was coaching when I took the Bracken position.”
The ReSporter: Have you had this type of experience when you start at a school with a team this young? Read the rest here »
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Bracken Christian’s Head Coach Hosea Stredic has a teaching moment after scrimmage last Friday
This Week @ Canyon Lake & Bracken Christian
Tue Aug 25 CL Hawks @ Billies Fresh/JV Volleyball
CL Hawks beat Billies 17-25, 25-16, 25-16, 25-14 Volleyball
Thu Aug 27 CL Hawks beat Giddings & Akins lost Keller Volleyball
CL Hawks lost Blanco JV 14-24 Football
CL Hawks beat Lago Vista Fresh 48-06 Football
Fri Aug 28 CL Hawks Fresh lost & JV won games with Blanco Volleyball
CL Hawks Varsity beat Blanco Volleyball
Blanco 14 CL Hawks Varsity 00 Football
Temple HT 24 Bracken Warriors 54 Football
Sat Aug 29 CL Hawks @ New Braunfels CrossCountry
CL Hawks beat SA Southwest 22-25, 25-11, 25-13 Volleyball
CL Hawks beat Bastrop 25-17, 25-16 Volleyball
CL Hawks vs. Weatherford (right now) Volleyball
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Bracken Christian will be starting their 10th season in a week and this year will have a lot of newness to it.
First off, this might be one of the youngest teams the Warriors have ever fielded, so there is newness in that situation.
Then with a new head coach, there is certainly newness in that as you have a different system to go along with understanding and figuring out a new coach.
Head Coach Hosea Stredic will be taking the reigns for a team that has made the playoffs for the last 8 years and has amassed 80 wins which averages right at 9 wins per season.
Take into account that first year had just one win and you get the idea that Bracken is used to winning.
The second and final scrimmage was played on Friday with Austin Hill Country and San Marcos Hill Country teams as each school played a round robin affair with offense and defense.
Bracken’s scrimmage with Austin Hill Country turned out better than the scrimmage with San Marcos on this night.
“We are playing about the same,” Coach Stredic started when asked his overall assessment of the scrimmage. “We did not play with confidence in the game with San Macos like they did with Austin Hill Country.”
Coach Stredic was commenting on how much more sure the team was when they took the field with Austin HC compared to not playing to the same standard when coupled with San Marcos.
“Against Holy Trinity we will be at the right place with the young kids that we have,” Stredic commented on how the Warriors will take the field as the season starts in a week. “Maturity will need to come as they are still trying to get a new offense and play with confidence…we will have to be more offensive and fight, playing with more than just straight up hard nose.”
BCS will certainly have many more new faces on the field this season as one Sophomore, Cade Middleton, will play his first full fledge 6-man football game this week after transferring from Smithson Valley.
Cade Middleton will in his first 6-man game this Friday
“It has been going a little different,” Middleton stated. “I have to learn to trust everyone and you never know where the ball is going to go, so I need to stay on my feet.”
Middleton will have some nuances to his game as 6-man can be a much faster game as you have fewer players to cover if a mistake is made.
“I am going to play my hardest and try to know how everyone works out on the field,” Middleton closed.
Senior Daniel Forgione will be back for his Senior year after taking off a season.
“I want to play in the State Championship,” Forgione said unabashedly when commenting on what some of his goals for this season would be.
When commenting on what will need to transpire to accomplish that lofty goal, Forgione said, “Play as hard as you can and trust each other.”
Daniel Forgione will want to go out in style for his Senior campaign
Forgione will have a busy game plan as he could be playing on both sides of the ball.
“I will need to improve as much as I can as a running back,” Forgione commented. “We started out of shape, but we are in shape now after Coach (Stredic) has worked us…we have started a brand new system and I am just concentrating on getting it down.”
Another player, Junior Brady Beene will be calling the signals for his third year and his confidence and stature will attest to his readiness for the season to get started.
Beene’s stature was a funny start in talking with this confident young player.
Junior Quarterback Brady Beene is happy he is taller than his Sister now
The ReSporter: How tall are you now?
Brady Beene: “I hit 5’10 this year!!”
The ReSporter: Did you pass your older sister (Bailey)?
Brady Beene: “Yep, I am taller by 2 inches than she is now!”
Take note that Beene took a lot of tough hits through his first two years as he has been a rock on both sides of the ball.
“We are head over hills better than where we started the first of August,” Beene said in talking about where the team was since the first practice. “We started out of shape and now we know it (offense and being in shape).”
Beene will be one of the few upper classman that will need to lead this young group of players this season.
“The best way to lead is by example,” Beene said. “If you can’t do it on the field by yourself.”
“I hope to be better than last year as a team, and I will need to be a better leader, but I do want to go deeper in the playoffs,” a beaming Beene gleamed.
On what this team will need to do to reach these goals, Beene was quick with an answer, “As long as we get better every week then that would be our way for improving.”
Bracken has more players than last year’s team and that will go a long way in helping as the contests commence in less than a week.
Last year’s team was certainly talented, but having so many player playing both ways and injuries hurt for a chance of advancing.
Bracken Warriors are a playoff team and this will be another year for continuing that trend at BCS will start that quest against Holy Trinity at home.
Go Warriors!!
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Eli Achillies after game with Emery-Weiner
When Head Coach Lloyd Fields was contemplating moving on after this football season, he wanted to meet with other former Coaches as well as The ReSporter to see what the consensus would be for naming an All-Bracken team.
The following were the results of that discussion with a note that the first two years was not represented by people who had actually seen those players in person.
There were a few holdovers from that first club in 2006 but the majority of players on the 2006 team might have a different group that might not have been recognized.
So, with out any delay The ReSporter will name the top 6 players voted on and then expand that list by putting a player for each position on the field which would spread more mayonnaise on your sandwich.
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Bracken Christian will bid farewell to a Coach who has roamed the sidelines for the past seven years.
Head Coach Lloyd Fields
BCS had just finished their first winning season with a 9-3 campaign and it was a quick turnaround from that first one win season the year before.
Giving up 500 points that first year was sure an eye opener, but those eyes would be opened wider when this Warrior team started winning at a regular clip.
Coach Lloyd Fields was entering in the front door for a school that would reach the highest of rarefied air when their 2010 season found themselves on top of the heap in 6-man football.
Fields had started his coaching career in 1969 when he was student teacher at Texarkana, Arkansas.
After a brief stint in the Marine Corp, he once again would come back to coaching in Lufkin as a junior high coach.
His first head coaching job would be in Waco at Richfield High School that is now known as Waco High.
Coach Fields first year at Bracken, fell one game short, of their previous season’s record and with a 1-1 playoff slate.
Meeting the eventual runner-up for State in that season, Rockwall Heritage, to start those playoffs was not a good way to make your mark in your first year.
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Bracken Christian finished their season battling all the way in their loss to Veritas, 62-13.
“I hate going out this way for the Seniors,” Head Coach Lloyd Fields said. “The team stepped up and played very well…we never quit and did we did not quit in August when we knew we would be outmanned and outnumbered…but this team fought all the way.”
Bracken finishes last game of season against Austin Veritas
The Warriors still had problems in recovering that dastardly on-side kick helping speed up this loss.
Veritas controlled the line of scrimmage especially with their defensive line and the Warriors just did not have enough bodies to put up enough resistance against that line’s onslaught onto whoever the Bracken player with the ball would be.
Noah Boriack could only throw his passes away for many of the plays as he struggled to get open to find a receiver or get open to run.
“We started off slow and up until about 36 points it finally hit that this would be our last game,” Boriack said. “We gave it our all and showed heart when the game was finished.”
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