{"id":352600,"date":"2026-07-26T02:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T02:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/352600\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T02:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T02:08:09","slug":"friday-night-hits-preview-evans-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/352600\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Night Hits Preview: Evans High School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday Night Hits Preview: Evans High School<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1785031689_77_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Default author avatar\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Evans High School is led by head coach Karlos Odum. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The Trojans are optimistic following an 8-2 record last season. They are led by University of Maryland commit William Jackson. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">&#8220;I&#8217;m really excited. We have a lot of big guys up front so I just have to go up there on the field and show them what we can do,&#8221; Jackson said. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">The Trojans have a lot of eyes on them this season but offensive coordinator Grant Alford says they are just staying focused on the task at hand: success in the postseason. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">&#8220;This year, it&#8217;s about putting our best foot forward, locking out all the outside noise, keeping all the inside noise in, and learning how to keep handling that success,&#8221; Alford said. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">The Trojans open their season against Lake Nona on Aug. 21. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday Night Hits Preview: Evans High School ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Evans High School is led by head&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[144184,116292,41931,143304,3982,5773,1736,68140,144186,139,141,140,1100,30234,144185,49646,8301,144183],"class_list":["post-352600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-big-guy","tag-evans-high-school","tag-eye","tag-friday-night-hits-preview","tag-hand","tag-lake-nona","tag-lot","tag-maryland","tag-offensive-coordinator-grant-alford","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-season","tag-success","tag-task","tag-trojans","tag-university","tag-william-jackson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}