Warner High junior Ethan Glover may be a star in the making in a sport he wasn’t sure he’d ever get to play. Glover grew up in a baseball family and played that sport almost exclusively until he got to high school. “I’d always wanted to play football, but my parents wouldn’t let me because they were afraid I’d get injured and jeopardize my baseball future. But then coach (Cade) Shearwood came in and started talking with them and I wrote them a letter detailing 18 reasons why I should get to play football, and I guess together we wore them down and they finally let me play,” laughed Ethan who also plays basketball for the Eagles. And he made an impression on the new head coach in that first year. “Ethan is a real headhunter, though sometimes a little hotheaded,” chuckled Shearwood. “In his first year ever to play he had 55 tackles and won our Big Stick award three times playing cornerback so this year we’re thinking about moving him to linebacker. He’s not a real big kid but he loves playing physical ball. On offense, it took him awhile to catch on to what we were doing but he ended up starting the last four or five games,” said Shearwood. “We might move him to tight end this year where can catch a few balls and be great leading the blocking on run plays.” So what brought out this physical side of Ethan Glover? “Anger issues,” joked Ethan who grew up on a farm. “Even when I was young, I was kind of physical, and I’d butt heads with the baby calves. So was his first year in football what he expected? “I’d only watched football on TV or in the stands and I thought it would be exciting but once they started throwing out all these formations and numbers that I was supposed to learn, that was challenging. But a lot of my teammates helped me catch on. So does your physicality get you in trouble in basketball? He hesitated. “Yes, at times but I’m working on it,” he said sheepishly. The Eagles are looking for big things from this big hitter in 2025 as they continue to turn the program around.
