Football Alumni Gather For Breakfast
The coaches and parents of the Waverly Football program hosted an alumni breakfast at Trackside Bar & Grill on Sept. 25.
Alumni looked back at their past years as Waverly students and reflected on what they had experienced.
“We had great student support for our athletic department and our band and our drama department and so there was a lot of student involvement back then so that hasn’t changed,” alumnus K.C. Rine said. “It’s just we probably had less community involvement than there is now, but it certainly was a great experience growing up here and to get to do it again with my own kinds.”
Two parents, Matt Warner and Kevin Schneider, set up the breakfast to unite the members of the Waverly community. Coach Tim Williams was asked to speak at this event about this football team and their vision for this season.
Waverly football parents and coaches hope to make this an annual event for the alumni of the Waverly Community.
“We are hoping to do this every year and to grow it. We also are hoping that if we win districts to do another one of these for the state playoffs,” Warner said.
The Waverly High School Student Council also sent a couple of representatives to this event. President McKenna Rogers, vice president Ali Gress and junior StuCo members Emily Clark and Addie Schneider attended the event to speak about the different events during Homecoming week.
For many of the parents and alumni of the community, this breakfast helped them to realize how the school community has grown.
“Where I went to school, it wasn’t quite as tight knit. This whole community where everybody's parents knows everybody's kids is so amazing and tight knit,” parent Jeff Lawrence said.
This event was started for more reasons than just to let the alumni return and remember their glory days.
“We started this last year. We started it to get more people involved and interested in football. It was something that needed to happen, we needed the program to grow and we needed the kids and community more involved,” Williams said.
The alumni breakfast is something the coaches and parents of the football program, as well as student council and other fall sports, would like to make a Waverly tradition.
