Junior Nathan Behne enters his third year of high school as the Greene County football kicker for the third year. He was slowed by a leg injury last spring in soccer and hasn’t been to as many kicking camps this summer as he normally would. With the injury behind him, he attended a training camp in Minnesota and a Kohl’s Kicking Camp in Tennessee and he talks about the rating system for high school kickers. “There’s a star program and a ranking for your class. I’m a four-and-a-half star, and my ranking, I was 31st, and since I haven’t been able to kick for a while because of my leg injury, I haven’t been ranked again. I don’t know where I’m sitting right now, but they will re-rank me after this Tennessee camp.” Behne expects that ranking to come out within a couple weeks.

He has aspirations to be a college football kicker. Yesterday, Behne and his Greene County teammates began four days of football camp on the practice fields at Greene County Middle School. Today is middle school camp day for players entering grades 5 through 8, then the high school camp resumes Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.

Official Fall sports practices in Iowa begin on Monday, August 8.