Week 11 Pictures

Here are some of the pictures from our game at Cowboys Stadium. What a great memory that will be for our team and for your sons and family for many years to come. I would really encourage you to look at Keller Pix and see if there are any memories that you would like to have. These are great pictures and they capture some amazing moments and scenes from our football season.

Enjoy the photos and I will be posting more after the holidays. Keep checking the blog for important information about our football program, and have a great end of the week.

Go Blue!

Kevin Atkinson

2009 Wrap Up 2

The end of a season is similar to death. It happens so fast and without very much warning and then all of a sudden it is over. No work on Sunday, no film Monday morning, no practice, no planning. It is just over. The week after football season is the week I dislike the most for the entire year. This week does not fit into the routine at all.

Our final game tradition is great in my opinion. It provides closure and an opportunity to say thank you and to pass the torch. Underclassmen thank the seniors, seniors give encouragement, and coaches, players, fans and family have a chance to say goodbye to a football player. To describe it as emotional would be a very bad understatement. Young men are saying goodbye to something that they have poured years of their short lives in to. It is an ending of a chapter of their life and transition into their next phase of life. I am grateful to be able to share these moments with them.

Some of your sons cry. Some of them bawl. Some hugs last longer than others. Some coaches share special words and give encouragement and guidance for the future. Some laugh and crack jokes. Parents and siblings hold on longer and linger in the hall way. Even at 1:30 in the morning it is tough for them to walk out the door and leave football behind. These emotions and tears remind me that we teach more than just football here. We are teaching life to these boys and that is our main goal. Football teams will come and go. The real success comes in the future years when your sons use the lessons from our football program to make decisions. To have Courage, or to be Humble. To Believe, to Love, to Unite and to Encourage. To have Empathy. To Overcome Adversity. To Finish what is difficult. To Win, to have Passion, to Overachieve. We wanted your sons to be great at football and to have a positive experience in athletics. But more important to us is that your sons become strong young men, who become faithful husbands and loving fathers. Those are the successes that we are working toward. We do what we do in football to help raise your sons to be the best they can be. It is our privilege to do this and we are grateful for the opportunity.

Go Blue!

Kevin Atkinson

2009 Wrap Up 1

It was a great season and I was very pleased with the effort and desire that your sons gave at last night's game. We played hard, caused Coppell to turn the ball over and moved the ball down the field but in the end we were unable to capitalize on some of their mistakes and came up on the short end. I am very please that we played well and fought the entire evening. I was so happy for our team to be able to experience Texas Stadium and have that memory.

The evening ended with our traditional receiving line for the seniors. It was a late night, early morning, but well worth it and the Indian Football Family benefits from those final moments in the locker room. I will share more about that event later on when my thoughts are more gathered and I get more than 4 hours of sleep.

Thank you for your time and support this year. The parents and football community at Keller High is special and the love and unity that is here at Keller is unlike any school I have been at before. Have a great Sunday, love on your sons and I will post again later.

Thank you again.

Go Blue.

Kevin Atkinson