At LBPOSTSports.com, we’ve been whining for months about how football season should never end—well, turns out it doesn’t.  Three Moore League schools (Poly, Lakewood, and Wilson) are using Nike’s SPARQ training program for their teams, trying to help build explosiveness, speed, and power—SPARQ stands for Speed Power Agility Reaction and Quickness, the elements the training program tries to focus on. 

Last Saturday, Nike held one of their SPARQ football combines at Southwest L.A. College, where over 1,200 athletes came to train and get their SPARQ ratings—Saturday was the midway point for the six-month SPARQ training season, from January to mid-summer, so many players there had been working within the program for a few months already.  Three Moore League schools are among the 32 schools serving as SPARQ Academies in the area, schools where kids are regularly tested and trained in the program—Poly, Lakewood, and Wilson all participate.

Athletes from Poly and Lakewood attended last Saturday’s combine, while more from each school are expected at this Saturday’s combine, held at Vets.  “We don’t have much till Spring ball starts,” says Jackrabbits Devin Jackson, a sophomore this season.  “I’m just trying to train and get better.  My ratings today were okay, but that just means I need to train harder over the summer—I’m excited to train.”

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