Texas high school football team helps in post-flood cleanup efforts

Due to the catastrophic turn of events in their community brought about by the recent floods, a Texas high school football team swapped team practice for charitable service.

As Caleb Yum of the Austin American-Statesman wrote, Faith Academy head coach James Silvers had his players trade their football gear for boots and gloves. Instead of running laps or going through play on the football field, the Flames players extended assistance to a trailer park that was ravaged by the devastating floods.

These Texas high school football players cleared debris to allow residents to access whatever they could save. Likewise, the Faith Academy campus became a headquarters for relief efforts and an evacuation center for those affected by the natural catastrophe.

Earlier this month, Texas’s Kerr County suffered floods that took the lives of at least 120 people and left over 170 people missing. Significant rainfall from the remnants of Tropical Storm Barry caused flash floods that rose to as high as 29 feet. With the equivalent of four months of rain pouring down, the Guadalupe River also rose to 26 feet. The events also sparked six flash flood warnings in the Texas Hill County.

Faith Academy finished the 2024 Texas high school football season with a 5-7 record. While they started their campaign at 2-6, they won three of their last four games. They competed in the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools’ six-man Division II football playoffs but lost to Lucas Christian Academy in the first round.