By Tom Nader

Publisher and Editor

Football at Windham is always a numbers game.

That is the reality of the situation for head coach Jake Eye.

His knows it.

His players know it.

Both also know, though, that they will never let the program’s lower roster size dictate who they can be.

They definitely will never use it as an excuse.

For 2024, Eye’s roster fills out at 26 players, with 13 of those being a senior class that holds a special place in the coach’s heart since has has coached them since their early youth years.

“There are so many of these seniors that I have coached since they were 8 or 9 years old,” Eye said. “Over all these years, they have become an extended part of my family to me. Their entire families are like that to me.”

Eye feels like his extended family is returning this season more prepared for the long season.

The Bombers have experienced an unusually high number of season-ending and season-altering injuries over the past two years.

This year, Windham will open the season healthy and ready to be heard as if they had the largest roster in the county.

They don’t, but it can expected that the pride they play with will make up for that.

“We are always up for a challenge,” Eye said. “That is the way I look at it and that is the way our team looks at it. Our team understands that sometimes we are up against it, that the odds are not in our favor because of the size we are, but we find ways to use that to our advantage. We build a mentality that as long as we have 11 players, no matter what 11 players they are, we are going to go out there and battle from the first whistle until the last whistle. That is the way we play.”

Leading the way with that program philosophy are the senior class that features Dylan McCune, Cam Hardrick, Jayquon Smith, Jack Eye, Nick Hopper, Carlos Bruton, Zack Porter, Austin Cales, Jacob Cody, Omar Duran, Brandon Petrich, Gage Vetrano and Kaishawn Scales.