Lyzale Edmon remembers it well. As he started his sophomore year on the Bradley-Bourbonnais JV football team a little over two years ago, it didn’t take long for members of the varsity coaching staff to start asking him how he felt about a possible promotion to the varsity team.

A few weeks into the season, Edmon was brought from the south side of the game field at Doug “Barc” Barclay Memorial Stadium to the north side, where the varsity team prepared for battle.

“I felt a lot of pressure,” Edmon said. “As a sophomore, I was on JV at first, but didn’t really want to go on varsity. (The coaches) kept encouraging me to go up to varsity, and then one practice they just moved me up. All my closest friends were still with the JV, and I’m on varsity with all these big guys around me.

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