Congratulations to this week’s Showcase Cinemas High School Team of the Week: Rogers High School Varsity Football!

This week’s spotlight was sent in by fan, Rachel Collum:

I believe that the Rogers High School Varsity football team should be this weeks Team of the Week because I have never seen a team strive for perfection as much as this team.

They are the only undefeated team in their league with only one game remaining. Not only have they put in tremendous work on the field to please themselves and their fans, they are also dedicating this football season to their schoolmate, friend, and teammate, Will Foreman who tragically passed away during a basketball practice last winter.

Will moved to Newport and attending Rogers High School for the first time last year as a sophomore. He fit right in with the boys and was an amazing kid on and off the field. He truly was an inspiration to the boys. A good amount of the boys on the football team play basketball in the winter to stay in shape, so many of them saw Will in his last moments. It is something many of them refuse to talk about but you know they will always see in the back of their minds.

The boys carry Will’s number 7 jersey out onto the field every game with them for the coin toss. The jersey is then passed around from player to player on the sidelines so every boy on the team can feel like he is still there with them.

They all wear the “W4W” sticker on the back of their helmets which represents “Will for Will”, which has become the team’s motto. The boys have not only shown great work on the field by remaining undefeated and being the top public school football team in the state, but they have also shown great support of Will’s disease (which was unknown to everyone at the time of his death), and also to Will’s friend’s and family.

His parent’s have since moved but whenever they are in town the boys always get together to visit “Mama Stacy”. Will would be so unbelievably proud of his team this year. And I believe that they should be recognized.

Cumulus Media Radio Stations, Showcase Cinemas, & the Rhode Island Interscholastic League congratulate this week’s stand-out team of the week.

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