Half of 2023 Kee football team returns as varsity letterwinners

The 2023 Kee football team will have half of its players returning with varsity letterwinning experience from last season’s result of a 2-6 overall record. Eleven of this season’s 22 players return from that squad that battled through injury and other challenges to also piece together a 1-4 mark in Eight-Player District 5.

“We return a nucleus of junior and senior guys that have been tossed into the fire and had to grow up quickly,” Kee football coach Chad Winters said. “Hopefully that experience they gained last year will be beneficial for us on both sides of the ball. We return four of our top six tacklers, our starting QB, and two of our top three receiving threats from a year ago.”

The Hawks are scheduled to get their 2023 quest for success underway this Friday, August 25 when they travel to Tripoli, a team that played to a 6-3 season record last fall and qualified for the Eight-Player State Play-Offs but that also must replace a great deal of graduated senior leadership from last year. Kee will then open District 3 play at fellow Upper Iowa Conference school Turkey Valley Friday, September 1.

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