High School Career: Eddie Rake

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Looking back on my high school career, one person had a major impact on my life was Eddie Rake. He was my coach and leader on and off the football field. Rake was my football coach from sixth grade to my senior year he always pushed me to do better. I didn’t like him at all but I respected him as a person and a coach. He had the town bussing about his football team he won the most games by any coach in Messina every. His workouts were the worst it was long and hard. The worst thing that he had was the run during summer. He made us run as long as we could in the burning heat. He never stopped pushing the team, he never quit and that is why we had the second longest winning streak every. We never liked him he would always almost kill

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