Since Blessed Trinity flag football’s 2022 state championship, the Titans have been knocking on the door for No. 2 in each season since. Head coach Brandon Harwell’s 2025 group might have the best chance of knocking the door down.

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Blessed Trinity (14-5) enters the Division 4 state playoffs coming off one of the area’s most impressive victories of the season. After dropping three straight to Milton, North Oconee and Harris County, the Titans finished the regular season with a 12-7 win over previously one-loss, reigning state champion, McEachern.

Blessed Trinity opens the playoffs against Woodward Academy on Thursday at Thomas County Central. The winner advances to play the winner of the Thomas County Central-Rockdale County game. 

Harwell has one of the more veteran-led rosters in Division 4 play, which looks to serve the team well ahead of the state playoffs.

“It’s been a great year so far,” Harwell said. “We knew we had an experienced team coming back from last year. With all the talent that is on the team, it’s been a lot of fun. We’ve had some really tough matchups to hopefully get us ready for the playoffs and we’re looking forward to continuing to work and see where we can go.”

From last season’s 19-win team that saw its season end in the Elite Eight against Lithia Springs, the Titans returned senior quarterback Addie Spak and leading receivers Hannah Daley and Maggie Sullivan. Spak has thrown for a whopping 3,531 yards and 58 touchdowns, while Daley has hauled in 1,352 yards and 29 touchdowns. Sullivan – another senior – has totaled 760 receiving yards and 11 scores.

“Addie has just had a fantastic year, building off the success that she had last year,” Harwell said. “She’s a shortstop on the softball team, a point guard on the basketball team, and she’s a defender in lacrosse, so she plays multiple sports and is committed to all of them. She’s extremely intelligent, makes good decisions and is just an anchor on our team.”

Daley has been on the varsity for four season and holds the school record for career receptions.

“No one’s had more receiving yards,” Harwell said. “No one’s come close to the touchdowns that she has. I think the thing that’s most impressive about Hannah is just the mentality that she brings. She is always up for challenges.”

Maggie Sullivan is another senior who has been on the varsity for three years. 

“She’s so influential, whether it’s receiving, running, or passing, but also blocking and giving Addie time to get the ball down the field to Hannah and some of our other receivers,” Harwell said. 

Junior Chelsea Lewis has been valuable on both sides of the ball.

“She’s our last line of defense as our safety,” Harwell said, “The numbers don’t always pop out on defense, but most of the time that’s because she’s doing her job. Those four have been extremely helpful. We have a lot of other players that are doing a great job as well, but those are probably our big four.”

Of the Titans’ last four games, the team had to face the state’s No. 1 team in North Oconee, No. 2 ranked Milton and No. 7 McEachern. Although Harwell’s group would have liked to come out of the grueling slate with more than one win, there couldn’t have been a better week of preparation for December football.

“We wanted to give ourselves a great opportunity just to play great teams,” Harwell said. “We saw that early on when we played Greenbrier. We also played Central over in Phenix City (Ala.), and they’re exceptional. We went down to (four-time state champion) Southeast Bulloch to play as well. We wanted to push ourselves. We wanted to give ourselves a lot of challenges. It’s going to be great for our team. We’re trying to get better, snap-by-snap, day-by-day, to hopefully put us in a position where we compete in the playoffs and play deep into December.”