High School Football Preview – Sauk Rapids-Rice Storm [AUDIO]

The Sauk Rapids-Rice Storm will look a lot different in 2023.  The Storm had 22 impact seniors graduate in the spring and have 13 seniors on this year's roster.  Storm Head Coach Phil Klaphake joined me on WJON.  He says the 13 seniors are 13 good football players.  Sauk Rapids-Rice has 115 kids out for football 9th - 12th grade.

Sauk Rapids-Rice was 6-3 in 2022 and lost in the 2nd round of the section playoffs to rival, Sartell-St. Stephen.

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Sauk Rapids-Rice has posted 2 straight seasons with winning records and coach Klaphake credits the coaching staff and the hard work from the players involved in the program.  He says they've been fortunate as coaches to have some really good kids in the program that helped put them in position to win.

Klaphake says each team is different and the expectations for each team is also different.  He says their goal is to always exceed the expectations that others have set for them.  I asked Klaphake if he'd like to highlight some players and he declined saying everyone will get to know who these key players are soon enough.  He says having success as a team takes priority over individual accomplishments.

Sauk Rapids-Rice football games will air all season on AM 1390/93.9 FM Granite City Sports with Dave Overlund as the primary play-by-play person.