The Colorado HS 7s season hits its 2nd round this week and there's a somewhat new name turning heads.
North HS is not new in the sense that the team has been around for a while, but they have not always had sufficient numbers for a full 15s team, and because of that has sometimes merged with other teams for the spring.
But in the fall they are often active in 7s.
"We started with five kids," said North Vikings Head Coach Nicholas Bahl. "As time went on we have grown, become more and more competitive, and attracted some really good athletes."
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But the biggest difference this year is attitude. They have always had athletic players, but the attitude was bit, in Bahl's own words, laissez faire.
This year the core group has responded to the admonition from the coaches, Bahl and Cole Hydrick, to work a bit harder.
"There's this idea of doing your best, but we presented the option to the kids, saying, do you want to do the work to be the best?" said Bahl.
