Burbank Vikings vital to the success of local high school programs
The Burbank Vikings are celebrating their 40th year.
Look at any successful high school football program in Southern California and it’s likely the team benefits from a strong local youth feeder program.
A fine example of this can been seen in the Santa Clarita Valley. Successful programs in the area, namely Hart, Canyon, Saugus and Valencia, have had the luxury of drawing from a number of feeder programs in the community.
Locally, the well being of the Burbank Vikings Youth Tackle Football program is vital to the success to the area’s high schools: Burroughs, Burbank and Bellarmine-Jefferson.
Feeder programs help teach football and acclimate players to the sport from an early age. If also gives them experience so when they make it to the prep ranks, they can step right in.
“It really helps perpetuate the local high school football programs,” Burbank Vikings President Mike McDonald said of the program. “It helps make them better. And we are lucky we have coaches at Burroughs and Burbank who realize that value and who have been involved in our program, even serving on our board.”
This season, the Vikings, who are in their 40th year, boast almost 240 athletes and the organization will field eight to nine teams.
Last season, all three local high schools made the playoffs, and the Bulldogs and Guards advanced to the quarterfinals in their respective divisions.
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