KC Adams recently became the latest in a long list of coaches
who suffer from insomnia.
Gilroy – KC Adams recently became the latest in a long list of coaches who suffer from insomnia.
“It was excitement. I couldn’t sleep the night before,” said the Anchorpoint Christian football coach about his team’s first day of practice Wednesday.
Nonetheless, Adams was the first to show. Practice was set to begin at 8am, but there he was, standing on the freshly cut grass two hours before any players had arrived.
In the team’s first year of 8-on-8 football, Anchorpoint had 22 kids come out in the first two days of practice. The school is preparing for an eight-game season with its first action occurring at the beginning of next month. While some players were ready to go, others were trying out football for the first time in their lives.
“Like I told the kids, ‘We’re doing the alphabet because we got 26 days (of practice until our first scrimmages),'” Adams said. “The first day was Z, today was Y. By the time we get to the first (of September), we better have our A-game ready.”
The coach’s enthusiasm was almost cut down by nerves when the team still hadn’t received any of its donated equipment. But just a day before practices were set to kick off, boxes came in courtesy of the Garcia Pass It On Foundation. Included in the donations made by Jeff and Carmella Garcia’s organization were shoulder pads, helmets, game socks, practice uniforms, and shorts and t-shirts featuring the words ‘Varsity Football’ and Anchorpoint’s logo.
With all the gear in place, Adams and his coaching staff of seven got down to work.
“I got a lot of speed right now, but I got a lot of kids that have never played football either,” Adams said. “They’re good athletes though. All the kids that play basketball are now playing football.”
Molding his raw talent into a team will be quite a test. According to Adams, 8-on-8 football has a competitive history in California that dates back four decades.
“It’s a great community,” he said. “This stuff has been going for a long time. They’ve had a state championship for 40 years.”
If Anchorpoint gets close to being that good, Adams can expect even more sleepless nights.
