Seniors look toward final grid contest

As the Libby Loggers prepare for their Senior Night football game with Whitefish on Friday, we sat down to chat with most of the team’s seniors: Tarasik Krisanov, Jared Winslow, Dalton Brown, Josh Bowers, Nic Robertson and Skyler Higareda.

What will be your best football memory?

Winslow: I developed a pretty good bond with the kids in the room right now. You don’t get that with many others in the school. 

Bowers: We were the first 9-0 froshmore team in school history.

Brown: Beating two AA schools was pretty cool.

Higareda: We shut out almost every team. 

Ten years from now, what will you remember?

Krisanov: Coach Hodel. He is hard on us but he teaches us a lot of sayings. Chinese proverbs like: “Don’t think. React.” Or “He who hesitates is lost.”

Robertson: For a lot of us it could be the last time we play in pads. It means a lot.

Winslow: I will think about playing under the lights. You always want that as a kid and I will remember how special that was.

What is your best Coach Fuller story?

Winslow: Freshman year going to Corvallis. We were riding the bus and it stopped but coach kept going and fell into a trash can. 

Krisanov: He always says, “It’s about a butt hair away.”

What did high school football teach you about life?

Winslow: You got to get back up when you get knocked down. We only have like 20 kids who play so if you get a knick you can’t sit out.

Brown: Keep pushing and things will get better.

Higareda: I learned how to manage my time. How to do school work and practice every day.

Brown: I learned a lot about discipline. 

Robertson: Good work ethic. How to stick with it.

Krisanov: Finish what you started.

What’s your best bus ride story?

Krisanov: I was peeing into a bottle once and the bus shook. I think a little hit my friend but he didn’t realize. I told him “sorry,” but he had no clue why.

Winslow: We take these charter buses from the 60’s.

Higareda: They may as well be yellow buses.

Q. What’s your biggest regret?

Higareda: Go lift more. 

Bowers: For sure. Lift weights more. 

Winslow: Sometimes you think you could have played harder on a play. But now there is one game left.

Krisanov: We can’t hold anything back in this game.

What else should I know?

Brown: I admired everyone’s ability to step up and discipline themselves to be better teammates and people in a game. It’s cool to get that when you can’t get that attitude from them in other situations. Real good leadership and a lot of want. It’s fun to be around. I’ll miss that.