Ever wanted to relive your football glory? The East Idaho Wolfpack have a tryout for you

IDAHO FALLS — There is nary denying that eastbound Idaho is simply a hotbed of shot talent. But what happens erstwhile today’s precocious schoolhouse stars are done playing nether nan lights connected Friday nights? There is 1 option: nan East Idaho Wolfpack.

The Wolfpack, an big shot team, has been successful cognition since 2019, arsenic members of nan Mountain West Football League (MWFL).

Matthew Diviesti, nan team’s laminitis and co-owner, said he played connected a akin squad successful Colorado. Then, aft moving backmost to Idaho, he played for nan Blackfoot Anarchy past Idaho Falls Mustangs, but decided he wanted to harvester his ain ideas astir really a squad should run pinch nan talent excavation disposable successful this area.

“I recognized that location was talent successful eastbound Idaho, pinch each of these programs for illustration Rigby and different precocious schools that are producing very bully (players) … I felt for illustration we could build thing out, here,” Diviesti said.

In 5 years, nan Wolfpack person won a brace of section titles — successful 2022 and 2024.

Before launching into different play of outpouring football, nan Wolfpack will clasp nan first of 2 unfastened tryouts connected Oct. 5. Participants must salary a $15 tryout interest for nan event, which will statesman astatine 4:30 p.m. astatine Skyline High School.

As Diviesti explained, nan tryout will beryllium akin to nan NFL combine, pinch nan diversion expertise of prospective players being measurement done a bid of drills. There will besides beryllium a 7-on-7 scrimmage to find players’ shot skills.

Players who make nan squad during this autumn tryout will beryllium portion of nan squad that plays successful a autumn vessel crippled earlier carrying connected to nan outpouring tryout and play — erstwhile nan Wolfpack will play against chap MWFL teams from Idaho, Montana and Utah.

The convention — and squad — invited each players 18 aliases older. Before nan Mustangs folded successful 2022, Diviesti said, they had a subordinate successful his 60s. Currently, location are immoderate players successful nan convention successful their 50s.

And because nan players are adults, galore of whom person their ain families, Diviesti added, nan Wolfpack are arsenic overmuch astir processing friendships and camaraderie arsenic they are astir playing football.

“We’re ever perpetually doing worldly together,” he said. “A batch of our guys thief each different out.”

For much accusation astir nan Wolfpack aliases nan Oct. 5 tryout, sojourn nan team’s Facebook page — here.