Friday, July 26 the Delphos Jefferson 2024 Football Team took off in canoes from the Antwerp Riverside Veteran’s Memorial Park Boat Launch. The canoes were provided by Upper Maumee Canoe & Kayak. Louis Beregszazi was contacted by the Delphos Jefferson Football coach Allan Pohlman to confirm this was an acceptable venture for the team to do as a team bonding experience. Beregszazi said he has had boy scouts, and other groups, but never a high school team that wanted to take to the water. He now realizes what good upper body training this would be to kayak for two hours and get these young men out in nature at the same time. There were 33 individuals all together including the team and staff and others.
The team building training group left the park at 1:00 p.m. and the water trek took about two hours to get to their final destination down stream at the landing at Upper Maumee Canoe & Kayak off of Rd. 192 outside of Antwerp. Teams around the area know that the Wildcats can be a tough team to beat, and so is going out on the Maumee River to kayak out in Antwerp’s waterway!
Mr. Beregszazi – owner of Upper Maumee Canoe & Kayak was waiting at the finishing spot for the crew & when he flagged down the first canoe, he asked, “Which one of you is the quarterback?” The athlete at the front of the canoe yelled out, “I am!” Just like a leader on the field, this quarterback led his team down the Maumee River.
