The Atlantic Trojans football team has some confidence coming off a winning season in 2017 and has set their goals high for the 2018 season that begins next week. Atlantic is coming of a 5-4 record in Class 3A play last season and will make the transition down to Class 2A this season. Atlantic Head Coach Mike McDermott was asked if the transition to Class 2A will change much for the Trojans?

Atlantic lost some key players to graduation including John McConkey on the offensive and defensive lines and quarterback Jaxson Eden. Coach McDermott is confident that their are guys on the team ready for their chance to make an impact this season. After spending the 2017 season as a hybrid player, Chase Mullenix will take over the signal-caller duties.

The Trojans tried to find ways to get their athletes the ball in space last season and Coach McDermott thinks speed will be a strength of this team out of the backfield as well.

Coach McDermott said tasting some success last season has grown the confidence of the players. He feels the program is settling in to a better groove with a few seasons of his staff at the helm and the players are setting their goals high.

The Trojans will open up the season next Friday on the road at Saydel. We’ll have coverage of that game on KJAN with pregame at 6:30pm and kickoff at 7:00pm. We’ll have our weekly chat with Coach McDermott Trojan Preview at 4:45pm next Friday. Our weekly pick ’em show Who’s Gonna Win? is back for another season and will air at 6:00pm on Friday nights throughout the season once again. We will also have all the scores from around the state on the Iowa High School Scoreboard Show from Radio Iowa once again each week after our broadcast game from 10:00pm-11:30pm. This season we will also provide a live video stream of all of our broadcast games via Facebook Live on our page KJAN AM 1220.