The 2016 AIC football season is approaching an end and this will be a lot of players’ last football game.

For the seniors of the 2017 class, this will be the last football game they will ever play. This will be a very memorable moment in their lives because a game they have been playing ever since they were 10, but now it is about to be over for them.

For a lot of these seniors, it will be a very emotional time for them but for some, they have made peace with it.

This will be a very emotional time not only for the seniors but for the other players as well. The younger guys on the team have looked up to a lot of the seniors and when they leave, it will be emotional for them as well.

This year’s seniors accomplished something that many teams before them have not. In their freshman year, they brought a championship to AIC and that is something no one can take away from them.

After interviewing Daquan Holmes, one of the seniors, and asking him how he feels about his senior campaign coming to an end, he seems to be at peace with his AIC career coming to a close.

“I am okay with it. Ever since I have come in as a freshman I have given this football team my all,” Holmes said. I was selected as a team captain in my final year here and I did the best I could to lead this team.”

I asked him how he felt about the coaches at AIC, whom he had high praise for.

“I feel they are like my second family. These coaches believed in me when no other school wanted to take a chance on me,” said Holmes.” “I attended AIC for 5 years and got my bachelor’s degree and have a year of graduate school under my belt.”

Holmes continued, “when I attended AIC it was all about football for me. But now I realize AIC made me into a fine young man. I have learned a lot about myself here and I have become a better person attending this school. When I first made the decision to come here I want sure if I was making a mistake. Now I realize it probably was the best decision I made in my life.”

Fellow senior Raymond Durrett is also at peace with how he feels about his senior campaign coming to an end.

“I have made peace with it,” Durrett said. “I have given 120 percent whenever I had to do anything involving football. Whether it was an actual game or practice, I gave it my all. When you give everything you have all the time, you have no regrets.”

Durrett agreed with his teammate regarding the AIC football coaching staff.

“I feel they are the best coaches anyone can ask for. They are not only there to mentor you through football but if you have any life problems they will be the first to offer a helping hand,” said Durrett. “They will always have my respect because they not only molded me into a better football player, but also a better man.”

Raymond Durrett and Daquan Holmes have both enjoyed and appreciated the time and people they have met here at AIC.

AIC is not only a place to become a good football player but to become better men.

Coach Art Wilkins’ favorite quote is “I want you to become a champion on the field but a champion in life as well.”

It seems that both Durrett and Holmes have become both ever while attending AIC.