Heritage Patriots

HS FOOTBALL: Week 5 AP Poll

September 18, 2024 Outside the Huddle 1

For the first time this season, The Associated Press has released a Top 10 football poll, with the rankings going live on Tuesday. Outside the Huddle has the lists in their entirety. CLASS 6A 1. […]

OTH First Eleven 2024: No. 8 Charlie Riddle

August 15, 2024 Outside the Huddle 1

Outside the Huddle and Blitz are counting down who they feel are the top 50 individual players in northeast Indiana heading into the 2024 season. Our highest preseason honor, the 6th annual First Eleven profiles […]

2024 FOOTBALL PREVIEW: Top 50 Player Countdown, No. 20-16

August 8, 2024 Outside the Huddle 0

Blitz and Outside the Huddle are counting down who they feel are the 50 most impactful players in northeast Indiana heading into the 2024 season. Today, we enter the top 20. No. 20: RB/MLB Dylan […]

BLITZ: Observations from Friday’s high school football media day

July 26, 2024 Outside the Huddle 0

It doesn’t involve any on-field action, but the area’s annual media day always hits Blitz as the start of the high school football season. Close to 40 area programs descended upon Optimum Performance Sports on […]

Continuity won’t be difficult with new Heritage head coach, long-time assistant Jeremy Hullinger

June 21, 2024 Outside the Huddle 0

While a new coach will be at the helm of the Heritage Patriots this fall, there will be nothing unfamiliar within the program. Coach Jeremy Hullinger is a Heritage lifer. He graduated from the school […]

Coach Casey Kolkman resigns from Heritage, takes admin position at Bluffton

May 13, 2024 Outside the Huddle 0

Outside the Huddle has learned that Heritage High School football coach Casey Kolkman has stepped down. On Monday evening, he was approved by the Bluffton-Harrison Metropolitan School District to fulfill an administrative role within Bluffton […]

2023 OUTSIDE THE HUDDLE ALL-AREA TEAM: Small School Defense

December 28, 2023 Outside the Huddle 0

We are celebrating the holidays in style, unveiling our Outside the Huddle All-Area teams for the 2023 football season. We will release our All-Area squads, in addition to our individual award winners, over the next […]

2023 OUTSIDE THE HUDDLE ALL-AREA TEAM: Small School Offense

December 26, 2023 Outside the Huddle 0

BLITZ’S POSTSEASON PRIMER: Class 3A, Sectional 27

October 19, 2023 Outside the Huddle 0

Now that nine weeks of the regular season are in the books for area prep football teams, it is time to look ahead to sectional play. We continue our sectional football primers in Class 3A, […]