It is September 24, Saturday night, when the tragic news of Kyler Williams’ car wreck hit the city of Springdale. When Laura Scirto and Lucy Arce, two moms who painted the Har-Ber field house doors, heard about the news, they decided one way to honor him was to scrap their original game day idea and pay tribute to him through artwork on the doors.

“We wanted to promote unity within our community and really show our support,” Scirto said.

The painting of the doors could not happen without the effort from the football moms. Lucy Arce, Laura Scirto, Darla Trollinger, Madelyn Hanby, Mary Wiley, Becca Woods, and Janae and Ella Riley are the women behind the detailed field house doors. They volunteer their time every Sunday afternoon to paint the doors and give the football team something to look forward to on Monday morning.

“It’s really fun to be a part of something that everyone gets to see,” sophomore Ella Riley said.

The painting of the field house doors has been a tradition for around 10 years. Each week, there is a new theme on the door that involves the Wildcat mascot, Wallace, beating up the team we are facing at the end of the week. Mothers of football players volunteer their time and effort each week to the doors. Scirto and Arce come up with the idea throughout the week, and on Sunday, paint it with their fellow football moms.

“It’s completely volunteer, it is a time of fellowship with the moms,” Scirto said.

The picture has 362 retweets on Twitter and 536 shares on facebook. It consisted of both Springdale and Har-Ber’s mascots and the phrase, “two teams, one family”.

“I really like the one that is on the doors right now for Kyler. It shows unity throughout our city,” Riley said.

The doors’ goal is to give the team encouragement throughout the week. They see it every time they walk in to go to practice. It gets them fired up to see the Wildcat beating up their next opponent, because that’s what they want to happen on Friday night. They want to win, and the doors give them a little push to want to do that.

“We walk into the field house everyday, that’s a given, so we see it everyday. And the paintings- they fire up the team,” junior football player Ben Dodson said.