The Strathmore High School Football Team is gelling and working as a team as they get out onto the field this season. So far, the Spartans team is playing excellent football this season. The team has a five-game winning streak going into their next home game this weekend against Canmore.

Spartans Coach Chuck Holloway explains this season is awesome. “They won every game. They're 5 and 0 currently, and we have four more games left in the regular season.”

Holloway says there are about 8 seniors on the team and the rest of the players are juniors and sophomores that graduated from the Bantam program.

When asked what makes the teamwork so well together, the coach said, “I would say that a lot of them matured over this past summer and a lot of them were going to a lot of camps in Alberta, and played together when they were bantams, or with community football.”

“The offence is totally different. They’ve got a new offence and a new defence. Basically, everything is totally different and they actually just they bought into the new system that I brought on, and they're gelling quite well right now,” he said.

In their last game, the Spartans took on Olds. Holloway says that the team is mostly comprised of juniors and sophomores. The final score was 60-14 Spartans.

The coach gave many of the 10th grade players time to develop during the game so that the team overall will be in good shape for next year when many of the senior players graduate.

Holloway revealed that four of the team’s seniors that will be graduating will likely go on to play football at post-secondary institutions like the University of Alberta, University of Calgary, and Saskatchewan.