By Cooper Chadwick
Hutchinson Trinity’s Bentyn Chastain was the captain and leader of a skilled 2025 football team.
Chastain played H-back and outside linebacker and earned honors such as first team all-league tight end and first team all-state
Going into his senior season, Chastain had big goals for him and his team.
“My goals coming into the year were to play every down like it was my last, giving everything I had out on the field for my guys. Our team as a whole wanted to make it to November because we know at that point we are in the final 3 to 4 games in the playoffs competing to go to the state championship. We achieved making it to November but we fell a little short on playing in the big game for the state title,” Chastain said.
One thing that helped Chastain and the Celtics meet some of their goals they set for themselves, was their hard work in the offseason.
“We start summer workouts 2 weeks after school gets out, we have 6 am lifts as a team and then every Tuesday and Thursday night we have football specific work on the field at our high school. When it gets closer to season in July we travel down to Southwestern college for camp to go against bigger schools and practice our plays and schemes we have been learning all summer, we also have a team “boot camp” where a retired Marine comes and puts us through different exercises as they do for the recruits going into the corps and then we get ready for the season,” Chastain said.
