We have everything we need now to be successful. “Having a facility that the kids WANT to be in is a huge advantage. We’ve had the longest off-season we’ll hopefully ever be a part of, but I feel like the kids are right there because of their work in the weight room. “To succeed in high school football, that’s what you have to be able to do. “We’ve struggled against Maine South and New Trier in the past because we couldn’t run the football, and we couldn’t stop the run,” said Burzawa, now in his 13 th year at the helm at ETHS. Other starters figure to be juniors David Sanchez (5-8, 230) and Sheldon Kinzer (5-10, 235) at the guard spots. Head coach Mike Burzawa has always favored a downhill running attack and a unit led by Air Force Academy recruit Zach Myers (6-5, 280) and Josh Hartwell (6-1, 275), along with Connor Groff (6-2, 220), who is shifting outside to tight end, will provide the veteran presence to get the job done. This year they hope to be the biggest kids on the block, with 3 starters returning in the offensive line and gigantic (6-foot-5, 335-pounds) sophomore Gabriel Rosen added to that mix. And that means even more of an emphasis on the conference race, as the Wildkits hope to rebound from a 3-6 season to challenge Maine South and New Trier for supremacy there.īoth teams have held the upper hand over ETHS - they haven’t beaten Maine South since 1999 – and that dominance has started up front when the Kits can’t match up physically. There won’t be an Illinois High School Association state playoff series this year. With the season postponed from last fall until now, the Kits will play all 5 division foes and will add on a 6 th game crossover against a to-be-determined foe from the CSL North.
But once the members of the ETHS football team could get back in the building and hit the weights again, they hit them - hard.Ī bigger, stronger and experienced Wildkit football squad opens a shortened season on Friday at Central Suburban League South division foe Glenbrook North and will get their first chance to flex their new muscles. Then the coronavirus pandemic hit, limiting access to that modern facility and strength guru Mark Feldner. This is the year the impact of the new fitness/wellness facility at Evanston Township High School figured to show across the board in boys and girls sports alike.
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