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Wellen Park High School Football · Founding Season 2026

EveryTraditionStarts Here

No decades of highlight reels. Just a brand-new Eagles program, a town that keeps showing up, and eleven Fridays to start writing the thing everybody else already has.

Wellen Park Football Eagles crest

Year One

Next Kickoff · Week 2

vs Gateway

Time TBDHOME

Days to kickoff
Full season →

What year one looks like

Nobody hands youa tradition.

Most programs around here have been running for fifty years. Ours started with a weight room, a staff who wanted to build something from nothing, and a roster of kids who will be the answer to a trivia question forever: who played in the very first Wellen Park game?

Everything this program becomes, it becomes because of what happens now.

  • 11

    Games on the 2026 slate

  • 5

    Fridays under our own lights

  • 10

    Coaches building this thing

  • 1st

    Season in program history

  • North Port
  • Mariner
  • Gateway
  • DeSoto
  • Cardinal Mooney
  • Bayshore
  • Lemon Bay
  • Booker
  • Braden River
  • Southeast
  • East Lee County

Mark the calendar

Coming up

Full season
  • Week 2

    HOME

    vs Gateway

    Time TBD

  • Week 3

    HOME

    vs DeSoto

    Time TBD

  • Week 4

    AWAY

    at Cardinal Mooney

    Time TBD

The 12th Man

Eleven on the field.The rest of us in the stands.

The 12th Man is our booster club — parents, grandparents, neighbors and local businesses who decided this program was worth backing before it had a single win to its name.

Membership buys gear, feeds the team, keeps the sideline dry when the Florida sky opens up in the fourth quarter, and puts a wall of noise behind eleven kids who are still figuring out what this is going to be.

Loud is a home field advantage. Show up and be loud.

For local business

Put your name on the founding season.

Sponsors are the reason this program has gear, signage and a sideline. In return you get in front of every family in Wellen Park — on Friday nights and every day in between.

  • On the gear

    Your logo on the polos, the workout shirts, the rain gear — worn all over Sarasota County every week of the season.

    From $1,250

  • On the fence

    A 4′×25′ banner on the outside of the stadium fence, seen by everyone who drives past campus, all year long.

    From $1,250

  • On the board

    Jumbotron rotation, an in-game announcement with your name on it, and two passes through the gate on us.

    $500 / yr

Backed by the neighborhood

Proud sponsors

Become a sponsor →
  • 360 Orthopedics
  • D.R. Horton
  • Gulfside Mortgage Services
  • Henson Contractors
  • Mattamy Homes
  • NextHome Excellence
  • NG Tutoring
  • Nottingham Plumbing & Water Solutions
  • Oak & Stone Craft Kitchen
  • Nichole Lunn — State Farm
  • Stephanie Ham, Realtor
  • Southern Trailer
  • Tarpon Point Grill & Marina