Fernando Kramer, photoj contributor
Fernando Kramer, a freshman digital media student, first started covering JV football games, taking pictures and writing captions for the MacJournalism Instagram account. He then wrote a story with the help from another classmate about the Knights JV-A baseball team. Kramer likes to play sports himself; he is first string on the McCallum JV tennis team, hoping to make varsity next year.
![STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION: The JV football team lost 45-0 Wednesday night to the Anderson Trojans. Sophomore Aidan Ilai said that despite the loss, the game was a good learning experience for the team.
“Overall [it was] a step in the right direction. Definitely a lot to learn from my part, hope everyone else has something to learn from,” Ilai said. “We just got to get tougher, got to execute what we plan to do.”
As the quarterback, Ilai reflected on how he could be a better leader moving forward in the season.
“I’ve got to be a better leader when times get tough. I’ve got to make sure everybody knows what's going on,” Ilai said. “I think a lot of the guys are new to football, so it takes a lot of time to learn the game, and me being here for a year, I got to get better at telling everybody what to do.”
Moving forward, Ilai hopes to move on to Varsity, and hopes McCallum will be able to win some big titles in the future.
"A lot of us have varsity goals by the end of the year,” Ilai said. “Next year, I want to lead a team to playoffs again, and a year after that, state championship.”
Caption by Josie Mullan.](https://macshieldonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/jv-football-1200x673.jpg)
