Wadlington determined to live his best life
Northampton’s Sincere Wadlington will begin the 2025 season with an inspiration that again will be symbolic with his name.
Wadlington continues to be inspired from he passing of his 4-month-old baby cousin, Kaiya, a little over a year ago.
“I feel like I need to carry her life that she never got to experience on my shoulders,” he said. “I need to have the best life as possible for her.”
On the football field, Wadlington is fulfilling the inspiration.
The senior will be a three-year starter for the Konkrete Kids this fall at halfback/tight end and defensive end on defense. He had 33 tackles last season.
Head coach John Toman anticipates a huge year ahead for Wadlington.
“Sincere is maturing into a great team leader, and his teammates are looking to him to be that leader,” beamed Toman. “Defensively, Sincere is a returning starter that will anchor the defensive front seven.
“Offensively the scheme will go through Sincere. He is a versatile athlete that can run, block, and catch. We will do our best to make sure he is involved each and every week.”
Wadlington began playing football at a young age because of his friends’ encouragement.
“I started to play football about 7-8 years ago because all my friends did, so I thought I would try it out,” he said. “I enjoyed it, and I remember my mom liked to take pictures of where I played as a kid and pictures of me and my teammates.”
Wadlington stated that his team has been busy during the summer, and they must work to overcome the loss of leading returning tackler, Owen Stanchock.
“As a team we have been practicing four times a week and have multiple seven-on-sevens to get us in shape and have some team bonding,” said Wadlington. “The state of the team is good, but we will need to pick up some extra work and be more focused cause we lost a very good player, Owen (Stanchock), in our offense and defense with an ACL injury.”
Wadlington is also well aware that the Kids will have another challenging year in the East Penn Conference (EPC) Northampton County Division, comprised mainly of former EPC Southern Division teams. The Kids went 6-6 last season.
“Yes, absolutely we have a more clear vision of how hard we need to work to beat teams in the south because it’s not the same as the prior years when we were in the north division,” said Wadlington. “It’s been a completely different ball game when switching.
“But we’ll be ready.”