BREMEN, Ala. – The Cold Springs Eagles are coming off a playoff appearance in 2024 and with some impact players returning to the field this fall, the Eagles will be eyeing a postseason return in 2025. Cold Springs Head Coach Brendan Voce is preparing to kick off the fourth year of his tenure and he’s optimistic after a great offseason from his team.
“I truly feel like since football season ended a year ago, we’ve had maybe our best offseason program,” Voce said. “We had tremendous improvements in the weight room and that led into the spring game where I thought we played really well and then in the summer we’ve competed more than we ever have as far as 7-on-7s. So, we’re super excited to get going.”
Cold Springs will open the season on Aug. 21 with a county battle against the Hanceville Bulldogs and Voce and his team are looking forward to the matchup. County games are always special for the players involved and Voce hopes to have more of those matchups on Eagles’ schedule in the future.
“We’re super excited to play Hanceville. When I played back in the day it seemed like it meant a lot when you got to play county schools and that’s something that’s become really difficult as far as scheduling,” Voce said. “Hanceville is the only county school we have on the schedule this time and we’re hoping maybe next year we can add one or two county schools, but I think it means a lot to these kids to play against kids that they’re familiar with.”
One of the leaders of this year’s team, Trey Bailey, has been impressed with the way the younger players on the team approached the offseason and is excited to see them contribute under the lights this fall.
“The younger guys on the football team have really showed up and showed out I think,” Bailey said. “You’ve got younger kids like Eli Voce, Micah Hendricks and a couple of others that have really shown out in the weight room and they’re putting in a lot of work to try and better themselves and better the team.”
Voce and his staff have been working to adjust to the personnel they have this season and that started in the summer with an increase in 7-on-7 work. With talent and experience returning at the skill positions, the Eagles want to find and take advantage of as many impact players as they can.
“The 7-on-7s have been really good for us. In the past, we’ve tried to go to maybe one in the summer and this year we went to Addison twice to compete and one at Fairview and another at Good Hope,” Voce said. “We have a lot different team this year. We don’t necessarily have the big running back that likes to power it in there, we have a lot more skill guys so I think those 7-on-7s will really benefit us this season.”
2025 Cold Springs Football Schedule (2A, Region 6)
Aug. 21 – Hanceville
Aug. 29 – Curry
Sept. 5 – at Susan Moore
Sept. 12 – Cleveland
Sept. 19 – at Winston County
Sept. 26 – at Lynn
Oct. 3 – West End
Oct. 10 – Coosa Christian
Oct. 17 – at Southeastern
Oct. 24 – at Falkville
*Region Game
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