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Published June 20, 2008 07:43 pm - staying active Fairview players staying busy with summer football camp By Michael A. Cummings michaelc@cullmantimes.com FAIRVIEW — In the career of a high school football player, the junior year is crucial — especially if he hopes to play in college.
So much rides on a player’s performance — both on and off the field — during that third year. For the first time, many juniors start showing up on college recruiting radar screens. As they develop physically and mentally, they are expected to take on more responsibility on the gridiron and lay the groundwork for their senior season. And just one year from graduation, they’re also expected to pick up the slack in the classroom. Put simply, the junior season can make a career — or it can break one. It’s a fact not lost of Fairview High’s Trett Hardman, a player surrounded by plenty of deserved hype after a breakout sophomore season in 2007. “I’m looking at it like it’s very important,” he said. “I mean it’s good to perform in-season, but you’re not going to perform in-season unless you work in the offseason.” A pocket quarterback who flourished in head coach George Redding’s spread offense last season, Hardman passed for over 2,000 yards and earned himself All-State honors in his first full year as a starter. With all that success, expectations were bound to come. Now entering his junior year, Hardman is expected to again have a stellar season and lead the Aggies back to playoffs. But none of that will come without a summer full of work — and Hardman knows it. As the midway point of summer nears, the Fairview quarterback is busy almost daily with camps, workouts and anything related to football. Just last week, the incoming junior was in Troy for Tony Franklin’s individual camp, working on fundamentals and paying attention to the details. “It was a good meeting all the coaches and talking to them, and talking to some of the high school recruits coming in for their senior year,” Hardman said, adding he’ll attend a UAB camp in July before Fairview gets into its team camp schedule. Hardman isn’t the only Fairview player attending individual camps this summer. Dex Sullivan, Kyle Stephenson, Alex Hipp and Chase Talley have also been honing their skills all summer. Stephenson, who also attended Franklin’s camp, said the workouts have helped with his understanding of the game. “They were all telling us to keep (working) on the fundamentals,” said Stephenson, who will attend a basketball camp in Tuscaloosa next weekend. “And they said it’s all about technique.” With so many players getting work this summer, Redding said the team is looking tough. And what the second-year head coach has been hearing is music to his ears. 
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