It wasn’t just another summer day of conditioning for the Western Wildcats Football Team in the weight room. It was a day that these young men listened and learned what it meant to have a Championship Mentality, a Head Coach talking about a 15 week season and players measuring where they are on the bench press with just 4 weeks to go for the 2018 football season.

Listen to Coach Adam Ratkevich talk about how he walked into a situation with a team that prior to him being the head coach went 0-10 and hadn’t scored a touchdown in their first 7 games to a team that is now going into his 4th season, under his leadership, and going 9-1 last season and into the playoffs in one of the toughest 8A Districts in the State of Florida.

Coach Ratkevich talks about walking into this season with all of the internal expectations as well as all of the external expectations of being one of the powerhouses in South Florida this season. How does Coach Ratkevich see his team,’I still look at Western as an underdog, I still see us as a blue collar football team that has to out work people, that’s in our DNA and that’s who we are.’

At the end of the training Coach Ratkevich reminds his young men,’We’ve been talking about all summer how we’ve been the hardest working football team in South Florida. We’ve been talking about that we’ve not been training for a 10 week season, but we’ve been training for a 15 week season…’

Check out the to-hype video and see the Wildcats get at the max bench press on this hot summer morning in South Florida.