Marshall Thomas

🇺🇸 Happy Veterans Day! Today, we honor all who have served our great nation! A special thank you to our very own Defensive Line Coach, retired U.S. Navy Commander Carr, for his service to our country and his continued dedication to mentoring young men through football.

What a great night packing shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child! Thank you to everyone who helped make it possible for our team to participate in this special service project again this year! We’re grateful for the opportunity to serve others.

Summer Workout #14 ☀️🏈 Another opportunity to get better. Tomorrow’s Mini Camp #2 (8:00–10:30 AM) wraps up our summer workouts before the NCHSAA Dead Period next week. Finish strong! #TeamGRIT

Week 4 of summer workouts ✅ One more week before the 2nd NCHSAA Dead Period! Workouts are Monday–Thursday, 8:00–11:30 AM. One more week to get stronger, improve our conditioning, sharpen our 🏈 skills, and finish before most students are awake. How lucky are we? #TeamGrit

Three great days at FCA Team Camp learning and growing on and off the field. Thankful for FCA and the generous donations that help make this experience affordable for our players each year. #TeamGrit

Day #1 of FCA Team Camp is in the books! A great start to building the foundation of Team GRIT with a growth mindset. Relationships, leadership, competition, and learning from every experience are all part of the process. Excited for Days #2 and #3! #TeamGrit #PioneerFootball

WO #4 ✅ Week 2 complete! 113 players on the summer roster. Fall camp officially begins July 29! However, we get to have 14 more summer workouts (June-July) before official fall camp to get in shape and prepare for the start of the season.Varsity heads to FCA Team Camp tomorrow!

Week #2, Tuesday Skill Session ✅ Young linemen building fundamentals and a strong foundation before weights, speed, and conditioning. Final workout tomorrow before varsity heads to FCA Team Camp (Thu-Sat). #GPE #WTW #TeamGRIT

A special treat today, having current @Colts running back @AndersonCastle7 , a former Watauga multi-sport standout and former @AppState_FB & @DukeFOOTBALL player, stop by camp to talk with our youth campers! Dream big, Work To Win, and Trust God!

Our incoming 9th graders got the opportunity to sharpen their football skills at our Future Pioneers Youth Football Camp! Two days packed with fundamentals, technique, competition, and perfect effort. Building the foundation for the future of Watauga Football! #WorkToWin

Thank you to our youth campers, coaches, and player coaches for making the 2026 Youth 🏈 Camp a success! We loved helping campers grow their football skills. Come watch the player coaches who helped you at camp take the field under the lights this fall at Jack Groce Stadium!

Great first day of the 2026 Future Pioneers Youth 🏈 Camp! Proud of all our future Pioneers for giving perfect effort and bringing great energy. Looking forward to Day #2 tomorrow! #WorkToWin #FuturePioneers #GPE

Summer Workout #2 ✅ A great way to finish the first week of Summer Workouts! Tomorrow we kick off our 2026 Future Pioneers Youth 🏈 Camp for grades 3-9. Our varsity players and coaching staff are excited to work with all campers Thursday & Friday from 9:00 AM–12:00 #WorkToWin

37 incoming freshmen showed up a day early for Freshmen Weight Room Orientation! Great start to the summer. 2026 Summer Workouts begin tomorrow (6/9):
🔹 Returning players 10–12: 8:00 AM
🔹 Incoming 9th Graders & New players 9:25 AM
⏰ Both groups finish at 11:30 AM

Congrats to the Class of 2026 and our Team Attack seniors! 🎓 Work To Win.
Stay In The Fight.
Choose Faith Over Fear. Proud of you! #TeamAttack

⏰ 1 WEEK UNTIL CAMP! The 2026 Future Pioneers Youth Football Camp kicks off next week! Register and pay online today to skip the registration line and get straight to the fun. Looking forward to coaching our elementary, junior high, and incoming 9th-grade Future Pioneers! 🏈

Nyle Peays — a senior State Champion 🏈WR/DB and 🏃300 hurdles State Champ — capped off his senior year by breaking the school 40-yard dash record today with a 4.41. He’ll run track at Liberty next year… but maybe @LibertyFootball should take a look too 👀 #WorkToWin⚒️

🏈 Register now: 2026 Youth Football Camp 📅 June 11–12 | 🕘 9–12 📍 Watauga HS Only $40, still the cheapest 2-day camp in Watauga County (no inflation increase). Camp funds also help offset our varsity players’ FCA camp cost. Building future Pioneers one camper at a time. ⚒️