Arrow Football award winners recognized at Clinton High School
By Danny C. Davis
Seniors Trevis Coley (left) and Jaiden King (right) received the Arrow Awards.
Clinton High School 2025 Arrow football players were recognized at the Clinton High School auditorium on January 18.
Jaiden Jefferson (left) and Jacob Jones (right) were named team captains for the 2025 football season. Jones also received the Johannsen scholarship.
Arrow Touchdown Club (ATC) president Charles Williams gave introductory remarks. He thanked the ATC board members for all their hard work and support.
Clinton Arrow Football players named to the MHSAA Region 2-7A All-Region 2nd Team included (l to r) Braylon Lowery, Tyboris Loftin, Donovan Shaiffer, Dallas Johnson, and Cameron Cornelius. Shaiffer and Cornelius were also named to the Capital Region All Area team.
“They were always there for the team to provide everything they needed to grow and mature as a team,” said Williams. “Our program is the best in the state, and we could not survive without all the work our touchdown club does.”
Robsen Neblett was given the Roy Burkett Leadership Award for being a hard-working player with accountability and leadership.
Williams also thanked the players, coaching staff and parents for all the support, along with Coach Will Nations for technical support for setting up the games to be streamed, and Danny Davis for public address announcing and coverage of the games in the The Clinton Courier.
Davonte Burkett was named to the Capital Region All Area Team.
First-year Arrow head football coach Hamer Morgan thanked parents and supporters for coming out to the awards get-together.
8th grade Arrow Awards were presented to Ayden Johnson and Derrick Smith (not pictured).
“The season did not end the way we would have all liked, but we had a lot of development in our program in all of our football teams grades seven through twelve and are already looking forward to next season,” said Morgan. “As coaches, we try to develop them not only as players but as human beings. Our coaches spend a lot of time and sacrifice a lot of time with their families to develop our players. Our trainers and managers are also vital to our team success, and they do what it takes.”
Edward Hamilton and Tyler Bilbrew (not pictured) received Northside Baptist Church scholarships.
Morgan also thanked Williams and the Arrow Touchdown Club, Clinton Athletic Director Judd Boswell and Superintendent Dr. Andy Schoggen for all their support.
“They give us what we need.”
7th grade Arrow Awards were presented to Aiden Blue and Ben Bruce (not pictured).
Morgan then presented all twenty senior football players with an award.
“We are so proud of these guys. They pushed each other and did a lot of good things that wore off on the younger players this year. We’ve got eight or nine seniors that will play football at the next level,” said Morgan. “Thanks to you for all your hard work and dedication.”
Senior Christian Cavett received the Coaches’ Award for hard work and resilience. Cavett also received the Johannsen scholarship.
Assistant coaches Britt Rowell and Jarvis Cole presented the Permanent Team Captain Leadership Awards. Receiving awards were Cameron Cornelius, Donvan Schaiffer, Jaiden Jefferson and Jacob Jones.
Arrow Assistant Coach Trace Lane presented the Arrow Award to the players that were selected as the most accountable and respectable. Receiving Arrow Awards were Trevis Coley and Jaiden King.
Seniors Donovan Shaiffer (left) and Cameron Cornelius (right) were named team captains for the 2025 football season.
The Coaches Award for the most hard-working and resilient players were presented by Coach Mark Hoskins. Receiving the Coaches Award were Christian Cavett and Ashton Nichols.
The Roy Burkett Leadership Award is presented to a player who is identified as a hard-working player with accountability and leadership. Coach Anthony Samford presented the award to Robsen Neblett.
Clinton Arrow Football players were named to the MHSAA Region 2-7A All-Region 1st Team included (l to r) Miles Bass, Davon Merchant, Graham Williams and Braylen Spann. Merchant was also named to the All State team.
Coach Morgan recognized those players who were voted to the All-State and All Region 2-7A teams.
Davon Merchant, def. end, was named to the All State and All Region 2-7A teams.
Miles Bass, def. back; Graham Williams, off-line; and Braylen Spann, kicking specialist were named to the All-Region 2-7A 1st team.
Donovan Shaiffer, def. linebacker; Cameron Cornelius, def. back; Tyboris Lofin, off. line; Dallas Johnson, def. line; and Braylon Lowery, running back were named to the All-Region 2-7A 2nd team.
Davonte Burkett, Donovan Shaifer and Cameron Conelius were named to the Capital Region All Area Team.
9th Grade Arrow Awards were presented to A. J. Fairley and Jett Tranberg.
8th Grade Arrow Awards were presented to Ayden Johnson and Derrick Smith.
7th Grade Arrow Awards were presented to Aiden Blue and Ben Bruce.
9th grade Arrow Awards were presented to Jett Tranberg (left) and A. J. Fairley (right).
Presenting their annual scholarship were Ray and Karen Johannsen. This year’s winners of the $500 scholarships were offensive lineman Jacob Jones and defensive lineman Christian Cavett.
Presenting the annual Northside Baptist Church scholarships were Ricky Nations and James Stringer. This year’s winners of the $750 scholarships were Tyler Bilbrew and Edward Hamilton.
The awards ceremony concluded with comments from ATC President Williams, who offered a challenge to the returning players to step up and be the person they are and remember the pride of Clinton Arrow football.
“We’ve missed the playoffs for the past three years, and we want to break that next year,” said Williams.
“You guys need to start thinking about the playoffs today, and think about going to the playoffs every day, and talk about that goal of going to the playoffs. We have a lot of tradition here in Clinton and have support from the community. All of you have one thing in common in that all of you want to be successful in life. You need to be positive about our team in what you say do, and everybody needs to be positive when you are on social media.”
“We have 3 ‘C’s’ in life: we have choices, chances and changes,” said Williams. “You have to make the choice to take a chance to make a change in the way we do things. Then our choice is that we are going to keep our mouth shut and take our chances and to work harder, and that will translate to change for us on the field the coming season.”
