This is the final football post for the 2015 St. Augustine High School Yellow Jackets football team and quarterback Austin Reed’s (#14) first season as a sophomore player on the varsity team. The Jackets closed out the year with a 66-28 win over their long time rivals the Palatka High School Panthers on November 6th. The win gave the Jackets a 9-1 (3-1 district) record entering the Regional playoffs as the #2 seed team from District 6A-4. The Regional quarterfinal playoff game took place on November 13th, at the Niceville High School Eagles football stadium. The game resulted in a 20-3 loss for the Yellow Jackets ending their season to finish 9-2.
Serving as a back up quarterback to the Yellow Jackets starter, quarterback Austin Reed (14) had several opportunities of play time during the 12 games throughout the season, including the Kickoff Classic in late August. Several of the drives that Austin quarterbacked resulted in additional scoring for the team, and a load of experience at the varsity level for him. Austin was also brought in to hold the ball for the kicker on extra-points and field goal attempts during the Regional quarterfinal game.
The following video features passing highlights for Austin for the 2015 football season as a quarterback for the St. Augustine High School Yellow Jackets.
It’s been a little while since we have blogged a post to the website AustinReedFootball.com, so we will spend some time to catch up on what’s been going on with the St. Augustine High School Yellow Jackets varsity football team this 2015 season. Since our last post about the win at Pedro Menendez High School to improve the Yellow Jackets to 3-0, the Jackets have continued their winning ways with victories over the Creekside Knights (35-17 (7-A)), the Melbourne Bulldogs (10-0 (8-A)), an overtime thriller against the Bartram Trail Bears (24-17 (7-A)), and a Homecoming blow-out against district opponents the Englewood Rams (45-6). The St. Augustine High School Yellow Jackets varsity football team has improved to 6-0 (1-0), and has earned a #3 ranking in Class 6A in the State of Florida by the Associated Press.
Remaining games on the 2015 regular season are (all games at 7:00 p.m.):
October 15 – @Ed White High School
October 23 – @Nease High School
October 30 – Middleburg High School (home)
November 6 – Palatka High School (home – Senior Night)
You can keep up with the 2015 St. Augustine High School Yellow Jackets varsity football team by visiting their website at: www.sahsfootball.com, or following their page on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/footballjackets.
Austin Reed is a 6′ 2″, 230 lb. redshirt junior quarterback playing college football at Western Kentucky University as of Spring 2022. Prior to WKU, Austin played at the University of West Florida and led the Argos to a National Championship in 2019. Prior to playing for the Argonauts, Austin played HS football for the St. Augustine HS Yellow Jackets (FL) and earned both the Florida Class 6A – 1st team All State QB honors and the offensive player of the year in 2017, throwing for 3,000 yards, 34 TD’s and leading his team to an undefeated regular season and an appearance in the Class 6A final four. This led to a scholarship to play football at Division 1, Southern Illinois University for the Fall 2018/Spring 2019 season prior to transferring back to Florida to play football for the UWF.
