Ohio’s Collerain Township Donovan Chambers, Colerain’s senior wide receiver/cornerback, isn’t thinking about the Cardinals’ two losing seasons.
“It has been difficult; there have been many long nights,” Chambers added. I wasn’t sure if I still wanted to do this. However, I believe that continuing to play football was the proper move on my part.
Colerain has a 22-game losing skid going into the season opener at La Salle on August 22. Since defeating visiting Hamilton 21-0 on October 14, 2022, the Cardinals have not won a game.
Nevertheless, Colerain football is entering a new age. Jordan Stevens, the head coach of the Cardinals, was appointed to the position in December of last year following three seasons at Mount Healthy.
This offseason, Stevens, who guided Mount Healthy to 23 victories in three seasons, has devoted a lot of effort to helping to revamp the Colerain program.
“I firmly think that since I started working here, we’ve expanded,” Stevens stated in July. To tell the truth, we always claim that we are only interested in development and not perfection. Therefore, the only thing we can realistically hope for here is daily growth.
Listen listen to Coach Stevens and other squad members:
This summer, Stevens made connections with Kerry Coombs, the former longstanding head coach, and other members of the Colerain community. On a July day, Stevens and Coombs talked for over two hours. Colerain won the 2004 Division I state championship under the direction of Coombs, a former NFL and college assistant coach.
According to Stevens, Coach Coombs has been a mentor for a very long time. That he returned home to meet was a blessing. Hearing him discuss his methods was incredibly interesting. how everything went. and how the district and community function when football is the main event. He had faith in me and our current situation, which is a major factor.
Chambers supports the program’s purpose as well. Nothing would please Chambers more than to win his senior year.
However, he also appreciates Stevens’ efforts to support student-athletes off the field.
According to Chambers, he’s improving us as men as well as football players. putting God first. Every day we learn something new and strive to improve.
Last season, Colerain was quite successful in the freshmen and junior varsity levels. With that potential, things appear to be going well. Stevens is also unambiguous about his definition of a successful season.
“Progress,” said Stevens. I don’t believe we assigned a number to it. We just want to go forward, I believe. Our goal is to advance both on and off the field. We’ve done a great job, in my opinion, of keeping God at the forefront of this program. We pray every day after practice. Our children are excellent. We’ll see to it that the field looks after itself.
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