Marble Falls football to host parent meetings
Though the first game of the 2025 football season is still 127 days away, the Marble Falls High School football program is implementing activities the staff believes will pave the way to success.
The Mustangs will face Austin Crockett in the season opener Aug. 28.
To help prepare families for what’s to come, head coach Keri Timmerman is conducting a spring parent meeting at 6 p.m. Monday, April 28, at The Commons room on the high school campus. It’s for rising ninth-12th grade athletes and their families.
The next day, he plans on hosting a football meeting for the middle school athletes and their families.
Timmerman said the meetings will give an update on the progress of the Mustangs and how they’ve spent the offseason in addition to filling in the families on upcoming camps, 7-on-7 leagues, the summer strength-and-conditioning program, and other activities that will be offered for the next several weeks.
“We just always like to give them an update on where we’re at,” he said. “But it also gives them an idea about what we’ve done all spring; things that we’ve been working on because spring is really when football gets kicked off.”
The Mustangs are doing more football-related work now. At the beginning of the offseason, it was about getting physically faster and stronger.
Fans can get a glimpse of the work done by the skill players when Marble Falls participates in the first of two 7-on-7 leagues.
Burnet is hosting its annual May League that includes the Bulldogs and Llano from 5-7 p.m. beginning Monday, May 5. Then in June the Mustangs will head west to play in Llano’s June League. Games are on Mondays.
Marble Falls also will play in the 7-on-7 state qualifying tournament hosted by Burnet Saturday, May 31.
Timmerman said he will outline more specifics about why participating in these leagues helps the players get ready for what’s coming.
In addition, the coach plans to go over equipment purchases.
“We just like to talk to them before they leave for summer because trying to catch them by the time we start two-a-days is hard because a lot of them aren’t going to be available in the summer and once we start,” he said. “This is a chance to lead them into the summer, let them plan for vacations, ask any questions they have, a little bit of encouragement for them for how hard their kids have worked, and then make sure that they know my expectations of summer workouts, expectations of 7-on-7, expectations of fall football, what that looks like.”
Timmerman didn’t hesitate when asked what has encouraged him this spring.
“A lot of things,” he said. “I think we’ve put on some armor on our bodies for guys that are going to play up front or guys that are going to play on the perimeter. The gains have been about 15 pounds on average across the board for every player. We’ve had a great strength conditioning participation this spring. Lots of gains in the weight room, which the way we work out should translate onto the field.”
The other, he added, is what he is seeing from his athletes when they’re not working out.
“Just the character and leadership coming into play and seeing how they work together and grow,” the coach said. “Kind of fight through some struggle. It’s hard to get up every morning. It’s hard to have a plan before you work out so that you don’t lose weight. It’s hard to have meal prep plans so you don’t lose that weight. I’ve been impressed with our work, their grades, (what they’re doing) in the classroom, and just no problems with our kids making poor choices. We’ve really had a bunch of them making a lot of really good choices in the spring and seeing some leadership develop. In that first year, it’s hard to break old habits.
“I think our kids are really kind of buying into that idea of not just taking care of your grades in season, it’s taking care of those things year-round, and I think they’ve done a really good job of it,” he added. “So I want to encourage our parents. In the springtime, we work through what we call IGTF – individual to group, group to team and team to family. We’re in the team section of that now, we’re working on how to develop as a football team, and how to do 7-on-7 as a team, and it’s something the kids just have to create amongst themselves.”
While these family meetings are designed for those who will play football for the school district in the coming months, Timmerman didn’t forget the varsity Mustangs of the future.
He is conducting his second annual Friday Night Lights Camp for students in first through sixth grades Friday, May 16. Registration is at 5:30 p.m. with the camp starting at 6 p.m. and finishing at 8 p.m. Cost is $50. Parents are welcome to stay and watch or enjoy a date night with their spouse.
This camp will give youngsters an opportunity to get a glimpse of each position on a football team as well as learn a little about each one. Perhaps the bigger benefit though is that these young Mustangs will meet Timmerman and the assistant coaches and begin the building blocks of a relationship.
“It’s actually one of the big reasons we do it,” he said. “I think especially in a one-horse town where you’ve got one middle school, one high school and four elementaries. When they see you in the grocery store, you want them to say hi and mom and dad want to feel like you know their (child). I go out and watch our youth football games and our flag football in the spring and in the fall. It’s wonderful that I can work on Saturdays, and then our coaches and I can go out and high-five the kids and be around them. The reality is we live in a time where relationships are everything. It feels like you know who they are and care about them. If it feels like family, they’re likely to stay and they’re likely to want to be a part of it.”
The program will conduct the Mustang Football Passing Academy for fifth through eighth-graders from 10 a.m.-noon Monday-Wednesday, June 2-4 and the 2025 Mustang Football Camp for incoming Kindergarten through ninth-graders Monday-Thursday, July 28-31.
Email Timmerman at kt********@ma************.org for more information.
