Confederation Secondary School - Football

Football

Like all sports teams at Confederation, the mascot is a Charger. Football at Confederation began in 1968 with a Junior Program but due to financial constraints and a serious injury to one of its players, the team was discontinued in the mid-1980s. Confederation was without football from that time until the fall of 2002 when it fielded a varsity team which posted a 2–4 record in its first season. This was considered quite an accomplishment as the last expansion team of Sudbury District Secondary School Athletic Association, the St. Benedict Catholic Secondary School Bears, had to wait a full seven seasons before their first win. The Chargers have become a regular member of the post-season every year since. In 2003 they made the playoffs for the first time and knocked off the perennial powerhouse St. Charles College Cardinals by a score of 30–16. They then handed the previously undefeated Lasalle Secondary School Lancers their only loss of the season in the championship game by a score of 14-7. Interest in football all across Greater Sudbury then spiked as several high schools hoped to duplicate Confederation's success. The Sudbury Secondary School Northstars took the field for the first time in over twenty years in 2003, but were unable to match the Chargers' success, going winless in three of four seasons and subsequently folding in 2007. To replace them that fall was the Lively District Secondary School Hawks who have traditionally fielded excellent flag football teams. However, in their first season they also went winless.