Pigskin Pride Returns to Valley Heights

Tuesday, Oct 21, 2025

Article content originally published in The Simcoe Reformer on October 18, 2025 by Jacob Robinson.

Valley Heights Football Team

Assistant coach Caleb Girard addresses the Valley Heights Bears following Friday's contest against McKinnon Park. Photo by Jacob Robinson

The roar has been restored at Valley Heights Secondary School.  

Prior to this season, a once-dominant varsity football program had been dormant due to a lack of interest in recent years. 

That’s when newcomer Brady Smith and his friends rallied to help resurrect the Bears’ gridiron tradition.  

“He started in Grade 9 and said, ‘I wanna play football’ and I’m like, ‘You might want to pick another school, bud,'” said Bears head coach Joel Smith, a VHSS grad and local butcher. “He said the boys wanted to get it going, so I talked with (principal) Ms. (Alison) High, and she wanted to see what we could do, so we ran a junior program for two years, and we’re in the league now this year.”  

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