By Donald Heath

Special for the Effingham Herald

GUYTON – A typical conversation around a South Effingham athletic family’s dinner table might start with a mother asking her son how his football practice went.

Monday night, the roles could have reversed.

SEHS coach Loren Purvis and his staff dialed up the inaugural Mustangs Mamas Clinic – an event that provided players’ mothers with an interactive experience into their sons’ football practices.

About 40 women attended the “workout” at the Corral.

“We had stations for every position, offense and defense, and ran our players’ mothers through some basic football drills,” Purvis said.

After about 45 minutes outside, Mustangs offensive and defensive coordinators talked to the mothers about strategy before finishing with a question-and-answer session.

Ultimately, it was a preseason get-together where coaches and players’ moms met and shared some fun in an informal setting.

“One thing that I saw was a lot of (our players’) personalities out here mimic their moms’ personalities,” Purvis said.

At one station, Purvis said an assistant coach, who was holding blocking pads, got knocked down by an aggressive mama when he wasn’t quite ready to start the drill.

Sounded like a five-yard illegal procedure penalty.

“These women really got after it. It was fun to watch,” Purvis said. “I think they had a blast at the clinic. I know we had a blast doing it.”

[Editor’s note: More photos are available on the South Effingham High School football Facebook page.]