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When the duo was in their sophomore year, the team went to a passing league/lineman competition at Napa High School. While the team excelled at the passing league, as Angell put it,  We were laughed out of the strength portion. The team s strongest athlete, Patterson, managed to push up 185 pounds just two times, while his counterparts were slinging the same weight 30-plus times. <br>This season Patterson was the inaugural member of the John Swett 1,500-Pound Club, which means that in an athlete s four core lifts, he can lift a total of at least 1,500 pounds. Patterson s strength also helped him earn the co-BSAL Lineman of the Year honor. <br>Vallis was not far behind Patterson in the 1,500-Pound Club. Since starting the program, Vallis said he has improved 150 pounds on his bench press and  a couple hundred on squats and deadlift and 100 on power cleans. <br>  I wasn t doing well at all in the beginning, says Vallis, who was selected as an All-BSAL Lineman.  I couldn t lift a lot of weight and I was fat and slow. I have gained speed, lost weight, gained muscle. I used to weigh 175 pounds. I now weigh 205. <br>But Vallis and Patterson are not the only players that have benefited from the program. Nine other players are in Swett s newly founded 1,200-Pound Club. Once the season started, the added strength showed in terms of overall play.<br>Defensively, the Indians were a brick wall. They notched six shutouts in the 12 games played. As a unit, the defense ranked number one in the East San Francisco Bay Area which also features the nation s top-ranked team, De La Salle for yards allowed per game, allowing 153 per game. The Indians accomplished the feat without one standout all-star, as seven people had over 30 tackles in 10 regular season games played. And if the stellar play in the regular season hadn t been enough, the Indians opened up the North Coast Section playoffs as the number-two seed re going to have to take a serious look at. <br><br>Switching Tracks<br><br>In 2005 the Railroaders will change football conferences, although they will keep two local rivals. Thomas says the school s athletic success and his own enthusiasm will not change.  I really do love it here. We have a great administration, from our superintendent s office to our high school principal to our athletic director  these are just great guys. We have a great football staff, and we have coaches in other sports who are good people to work with. <br>Is there a concern that the athletes will get complacent about their success?  No, not with the coaches we have at this school, says Thomas.  With football we will have 17 kids on next year s team who either started for us or who played a ton of football for us, and there s a natural tendency for players to think they can just show up. We will certainly make our kids understand that s not the case, and I can assure you the other coaches at Garrett High School will do the same. <br>Being at the top of his field at a school that is enjoying tremendous success and pride, Andy Thoma