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StumbleuponAlter celebrates fall sports teams accomplishments
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
KETTERING — Football films are rarely this funny.
"It was hysterical," Alter High School senior football player Chris Borland said. "That just shows the talent that we have at Alter. That was an incredible video."
On Tuesday, Dec. 2, in the gymnasium, the Knights celebrated the school's fall sports accomplishments, including state runner-up finishes in girls cross country and volleyball. The centerpiece was Alter's Division IV state football championship, earned with a 21-6 win over Steubenville last weekend.
A student-produced "video tribute" had mockumentary interviews with stand-ins for Borland, quarterback Austin Boucher and coach Ed Domsitz.
The real Boucher was impressed by the fake Boucher.
"That was pretty funny," the real Boucher said. "Obviously, they captured me as a stereotypical, dumbfounded football player, which was very, very, very amusing.
"But I think I have a little more personality than that. There's a little more to me than just football."
The video parodied a blond-wigged, pseudo Borland and his Bo Jackson-like ability to play any sport. It portrayed Domsitz as a gum-chewing, snarling caricature of himself.
"I think that totally captured the real essence of Chris and Austin, but missed on me," Domsitz told Alter's student body of 650. "Do I chew my gum like that? ... Punks."
It was all fun and games — the band played, T-shirts were thrown into the crowd — for the Catholic school that has eight state championships in eight different sports this decade.
"We are a school of champions," Domsitz said. "It's not just football. Football finally caught up."
After the half-hour assembly, Athletic Director Chris Hart got ready to coach basketball practice. Domsitz went home but was due to return for the regular football film session with parents.
"It doesn't just happen," Hart said of Alter's athletic accomplishments. "We work very hard for it."
