Hawks Football is Right Around the Corner

Translation Will be Key for this Year’s Football Squad

Coach Drum will many times say how having competition will help bring the best out of players, especially when those students have been winning.

Last year both the JV and Freshman won their district crown and even the ‘Gold’ team was undefeated without a chance of defending against other district opponents.

Not only that, but those younger teams had lost several players to varsity as Canyon Lake was starting a Sophomore QB and Running Backs in Ben Fulton, Micah St. John, and Tanner Faris on the Hawk’s backfield.

Freshman Jacob Ruff moved up from the Freshman team and got action in the offensive backfield and as a linebacker this past year.

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Recent Grad Haden Lee

Canyon Lake was blessed with many students that excelled with their sport from the football field to soccer field and diamond to hard wood.

Two athletes were voted as the MVP of their sport which was a record for the Hawks and the list below has all the athletes The ReSporter was told of accomplishments.

Bailey Drum in Volleyball and Haden Lee for Football topped the list for this past season and as Seniors will look forward to seeing how these two will adjust to College as Drum will be off to Angelo State University and Lee as aspirations of walking on and compete for an opening at Texas State.

Congratulations for an entertaining year as the Hawk Nation will now look forward to seeing more CL students this coming school year.

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Hawks with Devil’s Back Bone Trophy after Wimberley Win

The 2nd Annual Parent Football Player Car Wash Fundraiser will be held July 16th at the following locations:

               CVS -                     STARTZVILLE
               O'REILLYS/FAMILY DOLLAR-  SATTLER
               BROOKSHIRE BROTHERS -     HANCOCK

All football players for the 2016 season are encourage to attend as well as parents. This fundraiser raised 4,500.00 last year for CLHS Football players for the 2015 season. The event will be held from 10am-3pm on Saturday July 16th with a rainout makeup date on July 23rd.

Cody Hebert will head up the Startzville Carwash
Howard St. John and Ernest Faris will head up the O’Reilly’s/ Family Dollar Car Wash
Cory Martelli will head up the Brookshire Brother Car Wash.

What to bring: Sunscreen, towels, soap and sponges. Please mark your calendars for this event.

All proceeds will go directly to CLHS Athletic Fund.

Richard Rosas pictured with Matthew Adams, and Mike Thorpe after win over Texans in Soccer

                                                        90 Days Countdown

The #90 jersey was worn by Richard Rosas last season as a Sophomore and will be counted on by Canyon Lake as this defensive end will have a year under his belt.

Rosas was one of several underclassmen on last year’s roster as Canyon Lake continues to load up on a younger group of players as the first wave of Mountain Valley wealth of teams will suit this season as Juniors.

CL will have Freshman players that won district last year with both A and B squads. That B Squad was ineffective as 7th graders but turned it on last year and improved across the board.

That will give Hawk Coaches more competition again this year with a loaded Freshman class that might need another team like what happened last season with the ‘Gold’ Team.

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                                 Football Information
                                  Hawk Football Camp

 When:       July 25-28, 2016 (Monday through Thursday). 8:30a-12:00 noon
 Where:      Hawk Stadium on campus at Canyon Lake High School
 Who:        All incoming 6th, 7th, and 9th grade athletes in the CL attendance zone
 What:       A full week of Hawk Football taught by the CL Coaching staff.
             Camp will include sessions in skill training and weight training.
 Cost:       $50 per person (Make checks payable to CLHS Football.)
 Questions:  Call CLHS Athletic Office (830-885-1744)

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The ReSporter: Coach Drum, give us an idea on how your off season has progressed.

Canyon Lake’s Head Coach Charley Drum

Coach Drum: “It has gone real good…we have more than ever involved as we have 4 teams and we are excited about the numbers in hopefully getting some depth for next year.”

The ReSporter: Does this might mean having enough players to specify either on offense or defense?

Coach Drum: “Luckily that will be the case, we have the numbers with the lower grades but you might have enough for the lineman but not the skill positions, so it is still a wait and see game.”

The ReSporter: I know in the past, Mountain Valley would send students over to Canyon Lake this time of year and have an opportunity to show them the ropes, is that still something that is done?

Coach Drum: “We go over there during their athletic period and we will have several of our coaches with those students.” (more…)

                         Robert Woods with an army of Coaches having his back

This time of year will always have some touching moments as many 18 year old students embark on making their mark in life and say good-bye their high school days.

On Thursday of this past week, Robert Woods, was using his time wisely as he chose a College he could get a higher degree while playing a sport he had grown to love, football.

Mary Hardin Baylor will be the recipient school to enjoy an athlete that will give them his all.

Woods was part of a small Senior class, but these students made up for it as each player had a significant skill set that they translated into making their team get all they could out of the leadership shown by example.

Whether Woods was playing football, basketball, or scoring points in Track & Field, this young man did not leave school thinking he could have done more.

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Hawks with Devil’s Back Bone Trophy from last year’s  Wimberley Win

Canyon Lake’s schedule was released and the Hawks will be adding an Austin flavor this year as there will be 3 teams from the Capitol City.

Adding up last year’s records of the 10 teams playing the Hawks has those schools with a 57-44 record.

Two of those opponents had just one loss coming the 3rd week of playoff action. Blanco and Giddings finished with, 12-1 slates.

Austin Reagan, Giddings, Austin Akins, and Eastside Memorial will be the new schools coming this Fall.

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Canyon Lake has finished their Football schedule for the next year and their will be a taste of Austin with those games.

The Hawks have been middling along in that 4th place spot in district for many of their playoff gigs and will be hoping for moving up that ladder this time around.

                           Games for 2016
                Scrimmage #1        Smithville
                Scrimmage #2        La Vernia
                Week  1             Canyon Lake    @   Blanco
                Week  2             Canyon Lake    @   Austin Reagan
                Week  3             Giddings       @   Canyon Lake
                Week  4             Canyon Lake    @   Wimberley
                Week  5             Lampasas       @   Canyon Lake
                Week  6             Austin Akin    @   Canyon Lake
                Week  7             Canyon Lake    @   Austin Eastside Memorial
                Week  8             Boerne         @   Canyon Lake
                Week  9             Canyon Lake    @   Fredericksburg
                Week 10             Bye                Week
                Week 11             Taylor         @   Canyon Lake

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                             Hawks Celebrate in one of their 33 Victories this season.

The Fall Season of 2015 had an historic moment as the CL Volleyball team pulled off a District Championship which was the first for the Hawk Nation.

If you were looking at teams for Canyon Lake and projecting the first team to get to that feat, then Volleyball would have been near the bottom as the Hawk District has been controlled by Wimberley and seeing a team upend their streak of District Championships would have been a hard sell.

Yes, Wimberley did not have a vintage year but CL’s Volleyball team would also reach the highest State Ranking for any sport when they topped out at No. 7 during this season.

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