This is the first of three articles that will look ahead to the coming sports seasons for the Seminole Tribe. The series will be broken down by spring, winter and fall in that order so that the fall sports, which will begin in the opening days of August will be fresh. These articles will not focus on the chances of success of the various teams but on the key returning athletes in the various sports. It should be noted that success of the teams many times turn, not on returning players but on up-and-coming players that, while underclassmen or junior or even seniors, maybe didn’t see much playing times. They become interictal cogs in the newest editions of Indian and Maiden teams. That said, athletes that performed well, even at the highest levels, if healthy and stays out of trouble, most of the time take the leadership rolls both on and off the fields. One big caveat is that they have to play and compete. It is sad that for any program when top athletes simply don’t play, and yet it does happen. To keep athletes from quitting mid-season (that happened many times last year), the Seminole ISD passed a rule that states that if an athlete begins a sport, they may not quit (exceptions might be injury or academic ineligibility.)
