There's a new sense of pride being built at Williamsville East High School

ampionships. Whatever “approaches were tried ~in the past just hadnt worked adit was to try something new.

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“| had two primary goals when I took over the program at Williamsville East,” years. “First, says Fumerelle, who has been coaching for 14 I wanted to establish a home-field advantage and second, upgrade the weight training program.” Because he was hired just two weeks before the start of the both these goals on hold. When the season ended early with just two victories, Fumerelle put his plan in action.

The Flames Arc inthe House Fumerelle’s approach to achieving his goal of gaining a home-field advantage was simple: start by getting a home field! Because of not having adequate varsity facilities, the Flames played their games at a district field. pride in having a home field, and it just that first year to see us play our homecoming game again rival Williamsville South on their turf,” says Fumerelle. The Williamsville East football program was ready for an upgrade, big time. With some funding from the school district, donations from the Booster Club and proceeds from a lot of car washes and other fundraising activities, the school got new bleachers, a new press box and a new sound system.

“Build Our Own House Day,” coaches provided the elbow grease to paint the gave us a huge sense of pride, even more so because so many great people were involved in making it happen. It was a team : effort that included boosters, the athletic director and the principal. I can’t thank them enough.” #42 Brad Agustin While all this fundraising and building was going on, Fumerelle also worked on developing a stronger off-season program. feeling is that championships are built in the off-season.

Our players would show up in August and wanted to win just as badly as any other team, but they needed the will to prepare to win with a strong work ethic season.”

To help kick off his first off-season, Fumerelle held a Be an 11 Seminar last April with Jing to hold it in a hotel because it was scheduled for a Sunday, but thentinga poe and explosiveness — it’s the strongest team we'\TM 32 boys who tested we had 15 bench p 200 pounds, which is twice as many as the yeatsh before. seven run 4.7 or better — we've never had that kind of team speed.” ‘Two of the keys were plyometrics, mented after buyinga set of plyometric boxes from BES, and the Dot Drill “The plyometrics really helped ourexplosiveness, the Dot Drill helped our change of direction.”

Fumerelle says this = combination of speed, agility and strength resulted in a marked “During my first year we got beat up very badly with eight season-ending injuries; with the new program.” To motivate his players in the off-season, Fumerelle awarded 's and dist gules ep gn er that discussed S The bor squat, being performed here on a 3-in-1 bench, is a key lift in the Flames’ conditioning program for football. going to our first “every-team” camp in July, which everyone is looking forward to.” :

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We were successful with a big win — it was a great way to christen East athletic programs. Our programs are strong all the way our home field.” through.”

More good news followed, as the team finished the a row, the Flames have had at least 10 athletes make a grad the outlook is even better. point average of at least 90 percent. “This year, of the 32 playen in addition to the six wins from the varsity, our JV team st record in 12 years, with five wins, and played in the league championship. also had a favorable effect on academics. For the second year in on our team, we had 14 about other coaches achieve 90 percent.

Bill eligible to play football this year.’ Well, that’s something| | the participation in the weightroom really taking off, we are very never have to worry about because we have very high academid excited about this coming season.” ording to Fumerelle, the success of the football team has brought them up to par with the other strong Williamsville East.”

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From BFS Magazine — July/August 2005. Part of the BFS Magazine Archive (1980–2014).