Acknowledgments

This section each year is a labor of love for me, and I understand there's no way I'd be able to pull this off without a lot of people, particularly the players and the coaches in the News Herald's coverage area. I'd also like to thank everyone who advertised in this section for their support, and Valerie Larson, the News Herald's ad director, and Linda Ballard for helping in that regard, and our editor/publisher, Bill Woodall.

Thanks, as well, to composing personnel Quenna Olson, Janet Murray and Ashley Witt, and to press guys Royce Baxley and William Templeman. Thanks to the folks in circulation who help not only put the sections together physically, but then make sure they hit the driveways and the paper boxes so you can read it.

Thanks to my right-hand man, Lester Murray, who takes all these great photos and this year, designed our super-herothemed covers. Thanks to my family for putting up with me as I was putting the preview together (and probably not the easiest person with which to live). And thanks to you, the area football fans, who love this sport maybe as much as me.