Welsh Greyhounds
2024 Record: 9-4
District: 6-2A
Head Coach: Ronnie Courville
Note: Greyhounds return senior quarterback, Jonavon Begnaud.
Despite a coaching shift a year ago, the Welsh Greyhounds held up their program standard. The Greyhounds finished the season 9-4, reaching the quarterfinals of the playoffs, all behind the leadership of Ronnie Courville.
Courville has served the program in different roles, including most recently as defensive coordinator. It's his experience and knowledge that the players believe will push them forward.
"I feel like it helped out a lot because he could see as a head coach because he knows what an offense is supposed to look like and then he coaches defense", says senior quarterback Jonavon Begnaud. "So he knows both sides of the ball."
"He’s hard on us whenever he needs to be, but he can also relate to us as an equal and as a friend", says senior offensive lineman, Eli Jolie. "It’s also like he could be our coach too. He finds a good balance between that so I really like him as a head coach."
Courville was a part of the 2017, 2018 teams that made trips to the Dome — again, his experience. As for the young 'hounds, for them it'll take discipline.
Welsh returns 16 seniors, where 14 of them are starters. That includes 6 on offense led by both Jolie and Begnaud, who put together a solid junior campaign, over 2,100 yards and 33 touchdowns. With such a senior-heavy led group, the Greyhounds use that advantage to be better than before.
"We’re going to make the playoffs. We just have to work towards it, work past where we made it last year and keep building on it. If we take what we did last year and keep building on it, we’ll be able to make it past last year then we can focus on the Dome."
"I’d say just improving every single day", says Courville. "We’re not good enough to be there yet, so we have to continue to improve to get to that point to get there."
Going into year 2 at the helm, Courville says the first realistic goal on his list is to make the Top 8 in post-season, allowing them to host a home playoff game.
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