Woodmore was scheduled to have a game in Cleveland against John Adams high school. They had a 2 hour bus drive to the school and right as they pulled in and were ready to unload and get ready for the game the unfortunate happened. The team heard gunshots and everyone was in panic. Sadly some of the players witnessed everything go down considering that it happened around 200 feet away from the bus. But once the coaches caught wind of what happened and realized what they needed to do they all took action. All the coaches told all of the players to get on the ground and to cover themselves. Everyone was down for around 5 minutes until they decided to make their way into the high school for shelter.
They sat in the locker room still ready to play because they haven’t heard otherwise. But then the athletic director told them that the game was cancelled and they couldn’t play at the stadium. The coaches still wanted to give the players a chance to show off what they have been practicing for the whole week. With this in mind they tried to see if they could move the game to a different stadium. The coaches came in to where the players were all at and discussed with the captains what they wanted to do with the whole scenario. They decided that it’s not worth it to play a game with something like that just happening. So the players waited until everything was cleared out and loaded back up on the bus and left. As a player who was on the bus I would like to give thanks to all of the coaches that were there. They all made sure that the players were safe before themselves. Especially coach Stecher, he made sure that people knew if they had to talk to someone or if they were just in shock or whatever that they could talk to him. He also checked with the players if they were even up to play after the whole incident went down. Luckily everyone just came out of there safe and no one was hurt or anything.
Woodmore didn’t get to play this week but they’ll be ready to get back to action next week against Willard. The Willard football game is there second home game and there homecoming game.
