Texas Southern Tigers football team set to close out second week of training camp

HOUSTON, Texas  -- The Texas Southern Tigers football team continued their preparation for the upcoming season with another productive training camp practice session today at Durley Field.

With just a few days of practice remaining before their highly anticipated Labor Day Classic meeting with Prairie View A&M the Tigers football team has begun to pay close attention to fine tuning their techniques and fundamentals.

"As a defense we're starting to come together real strong," said defensive back Le'Tevin Wilcox. "You can really start to see the difference having spring ball has made as far as where we are at this year compared to last year. Everybody is out here competing and getting better day by day."

Last season Texas Southern senior offensive lineman Marvin Hollie sat in dismay as he watched his team drop their season opener to PVAMU. This season Hollie and his teammates have each made a commitment to go the extra mile in order to try and make amends for the teams' overall performance last year.

"We have a really good senior group," said Hollie. "We all entered camp with the same mind set so we've been able to hit the ground running at the same pace. If we can come out and play well to open the season that would be great for us as well as the confidence of our younger players. This is the last season for a lot of us so we want to go out and represent our school with pride and a desire to reach all of the goals we've set."

Texas Southern will continue training camp tomorrow with another set of two-a-day practices with the first session starting at 9:00 am at Durley Field.



COURTESY TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY ATHLETIC MEDIA RELATIONS