As the Libby Loggers prepare for their Senior Night football game with Whitefish on Friday, we sat down to chat with most of the team’s seniors: Tarasik Krisanov, Jared Winslow, Dalton Brown, Josh Bowers, Nic Robertson and Skyler Higareda.

What will be your best football memory?

Winslow: I developed a pretty good bond with the kids in the room right now. You don’t get that with many others in the school. 

Bowers: We were the first 9-0 froshmore team in school history.

Brown: Beating two AA schools was pretty cool.

Higareda: We shut out almost every team. 

Ten years from now, what will you remember?

Krisanov: Coach Hodel. He is hard on us but he teaches us a lot of sayings. Chinese proverbs like: “Don’t think. React.” Or “He who hesitates is lost.”

Robertson: For a lot of us it could be the last time we play in pads. It means a lot.

Winslow: I will think about playing under the lights. You always want that as a kid and I will remember how special that was.

What is your best Coach Fuller story?

Winslow: Freshman year going to Corvallis. We were riding the bus and it stopped but coach kept going and fell into a trash can. 

Krisanov: He always says, “It’s about a butt hair away.”

What did high school football teach you about life?

Winslow: You got to get back up when you get knocked down. We only have like 20 kids who play so if you get a knick you can’t sit out.

Brown: Keep pushing and things will get better.

Higareda: I learned how to manage my time. How to do school work and practice every day.

Brown: I learned a lot about discipline. 

Robertson: Good work ethic. How to stick with it.

Krisanov: Finish what you started.

What’s your best bus ride story?

Krisanov: I was peeing into a bottle once and the bus shook. I think a little hit my friend but he didn’t realize. I told him “sorry,” but he had no clue why.

Winslow: We take these charter buses from the 60’s.

Higareda: They may as well be yellow buses.

Q. What’s your biggest regret?

Higareda: Go lift more. 

Bowers: For sure. Lift weights more. 

Winslow: Sometimes you think you could have played harder on a play. But now there is one game left.

Krisanov: We can’t hold anything back in this game.

What else should I know?

Brown: I admired everyone’s ability to step up and discipline themselves to be better teammates and people in a game. It’s cool to get that when you can’t get that attitude from them in other situations. Real good leadership and a lot of want. It’s fun to be around. I’ll miss that.