North Union’s football team is pictured from left, front row, Josh Ahern, Tyler Krebehenne, Miles Marlette, Austin Schindewolf, Maxwell Ruhl and Devon Workman; second row, R.J. Hillyard, Nickolas Hajjar, Kadrin Riffle, Eddie Blair, Josiah Stover, Brock Smith, Rylan Potts and Ethan Miller; third row, Brycen Delawder, Connor Cobb, Jaxon Heminger, Wyatt Arver, Trenor Kyte, Ryun Eager, Xavier Gruber and Peyton Wood; fourth row, Zaim Habib, Gavin Potts, Griffin Osborne, Hunter Green, Nick VanHoose, Landry Dible, Blaine Ware, Brayson Smith and Kory Ransome; fifth row, Luke Brown, Jace Phipps, Kaiden Dixon, Jackson Kemp, Mason Andrews, Ethan Wilcox, Broden O’Reilly, Dylan Asher and Hayden Garrett; sixth row, assistant coaches Mike Adams and Joe Kyte, Head Coach Nick Hajjar, assistant coaches Cameron Miller and Andrew Owens and manager Bray Wenger. (Gazette photo by Aleksei Pavloff)
Wildcats could have learning curve this season
By By Bob Putman, Richwood Gazette
During his time as the head coach of the North Union football team, Nick Hajjar has tried to drive home to his players about trusting the process.
Most years the Wildcats have returnees who have been through that process which allows them to have the understanding of what that means.
But the 2024 version does not have a lot of that past understanding. As such, Hajjar knows it will take a little more work for his team to hone in on that process.
“We have just three starters returning on both offense and defense, so the off season was very important to us,” Hajjar said.
After years of double- digit returning lettermen, there are only nine returnees taking the field, forcing the Wil…
Read this entire article as it appeared in print in our eEdition
