Highland Huskies football season was a family affair for Chase family ...Saudi Arabia

During the time around the Thanksgiving holiday, many families chat about football while gathered around the dinner table.

Plenty of families turn on the game while digesting that turkey and stuffing.

Some families might even burn off those excess calories by tossing the ball around in the backyard.

The Chase family out of Windsor took things just a step or two further this past fall.

Wyatt Chase, a senior at Highland, was a standout linebacker and running back, as well as one of the team captains for the Huskies.

His two younger sisters, twins Vivi and Lucy, decided to join the team as kickers during their sophomore year of school.

Their father, Matt, was an assistant coach on the team this past fall.

The youngest sibling, John, an eighth grader — whom Matt refers to as a “tinkerer” — used his impressive knowledge of gadgets and technology to fly a drone during games to help capture footage from all angles.

And their mother, Christine — who normally coaches Lucy and Vivi in club soccer during the fall — provided valuable support all football season for the highly active family.

In every conceivable way, Highland’s incredibly success season was very much a family affair for the Chases.

“Initially, in the beginning of the season, I started kicking, and Lucy was like, ‘Oh, I want to join. That looks fun,’ ” Vivi recalled. “Last year, I kicked in Powder Puff, so that we could win. And coach (Kerry Overmiller) reached out and said, ‘It would be really cool if you could be on the team.’ And Lucy was like, ‘Let’s do it together.’ So, we did.”

The Huskies went 7-4 this past season and advanced to the second round of the Class 1A state tournament.

Throughout the campaign, just about anywhere one looked, at practices and during games, one was likely to spot a member of the Chase family.

‘I couldn’t ask for better sisters’

Lucy and Vivi normally play club soccer in the fall.

But when their regular club soccer routine was disrupted because of the closure of the Future Legends Sports Complex in Windsor, the Chase twins suddenly had a little extra free time to fill.

Matt and Wyatt broached the idea of the girls using their powerful, accurate kicking legs on the football field for a Highland program that has been forced to operate for years without an experienced, designated kicker.

After just a tad bit of prodding, the sisters decided to give it a try.

Vivi has a bit more of a bold, outgoing personality. Lucy is often more reserved, perhaps more patient, at times, with her approach.

So, naturally, Vivi initially handled most of the extra-point and field goal opportunities, while Lucy primarily handled kickoffs. But as the season progressed, they would often switch back and forth.

Ultimately, Vivi finished the season with 17 successful point-after-touchdown conversions out of 22 attempts. Lucy made 14 of her 19 point-after-touchdown attempts. Combined, they had a 76% conversion percentage.

A year ago, Highland made just 27 of 46 point-after attempts with a conversion rate of 59%.

“I just couldn’t ask for better sisters, to be honest,” said Wyatt, who was third on the team in rushing (628 yards, 6 TDs) and first in all of 1A in tackles (130). “It’s been a fun experience. I’m happy they played football this year. It helped the team a lot. … They were just miles ahead of everyone else (who tried to kick). They were two of the best kickers the program has had in, like, 40 years.”

‘I had reservations’

As excited as Wyatt and Chase were to have Vivi and Lucy join the football team, Christine admits she had some initial, minor concerns.

But it didn’t take long for her nerves to be soothed.

“I had reservations, especially on kickoffs, because someone could really (initiate physical contact with the girls),” Christine said. “But I felt better with it knowing their brother was on the field with them.”

Matt added, “all the guys were super protective of them; the coaches, too.”

It didn’t take long at all for the entire team to fully embrace the Chase twins.

And, in many ways, for Vivi and Lucy, it was like they had 10 brothers on the field with them at all times during kickoffs, field goals and extra points.

“The football atmosphere is such a brotherhood,” Lucy said. “I didn’t see that until I was on the field. You can see that they’re all close to each other, and I think that was a really cool experience for us to have.”

At the same time, with Lucy and Vivi each standing 5-foot-10 with athletic builds, they certainly didn’t want to be coddled or to take it easy on the football field.

For those rare instances when an opposing team’s kick returner got past Highland’s coverage team, Vivi and Lucy wanted to learn the proper way to force that returner out of bounds.

“They’re badass competitors,” Matt said. “This is what they were born to do: compete, whether it is soccer, basketball or football.”

Christine added, “They can hold their own, and they definitely did.”

‘That’s why we wanted to help’

Matt recalls when his daughters first joined the football team, game officials may have incorrectly declared one of Vivi’s field goal attempts errant as a result of the long-utilized goalposts at the school perhaps not being up to snuff.

So, naturally, Matt took it upon himself to build more modern goalposts.

Matt and Christine are the founders, and the chief executive officer and chief financial officer, respectively, of Origin MEC — a mechanical engineering, designing and manufacturing company that was originally launched out of the Chase family’s garage about seven years ago. The company has since grown exponentially, not only in northern Colorado, but also in Denver and in Clovis, New Mexico.

“We had never built goalposts before,” Matt said. “But in three weeks, we basically designed it, installed the foundation and built the goalposts. … Highland is a smaller, rural school, and they appreciate things you do for them. And that’s why we wanted to help.”

Matt grew up in Windsor and is a 2001 graduate of Windsor High School. Christine is from Littleton and is a 2003 graduate of Arapahoe High School.

The family lives in Windsor, but as their children approached high school age, Christine and Matt pondered the benefits of sending their kids to a smaller school within the rapidly growing northern Colorado region.

One of those benefits is the hometown, “Friday Night Lights”-feel of high school athletics within a tightly knit community that connects much of its identity with its local school.

‘When you’re a good leader, it doesn’t matter the sport’

Before returning to northern Colorado and starting a family, Matt played for the University of Wyoming on a football scholarship, earning an engineering degree. Christine was also in Laramie, excelling in collegiate soccer on scholarship while earning a family and consumer science degree. They actually met each other within the university’s athletic facilities while rehabilitating from respective injuries.

“I tell everybody, we met in ‘rehab’, but she doesn’t think it’s very funny,” Matt joked.

In addition to football and soccer, Vivi and Lucy also play basketball.

While his sisters are in the midst of their basketball season this winter, Wyatt is a strong state title contender in wrestling this winter after being a state runner-up a year ago. Wyatt also competes in track in the spring.

With the common bond of being former high-level collegiate athletes, Christine and Matt are plenty familiar with all the benefits that organized team sports offer. They also possess the knowledge and experience to help their children navigate through all the challenges that come with playing competitive sports, potential burnout being one of them.

Matt credits his time at the University of Wyoming under famed coach Joe Glenn for helping him develop the leadership skills that would later become vital as he launched his own business.

“I learned a lot from those college coaches, even high school coaches, about how to become a really good leader for a team,” Matt said. “When you’re a good leader, it doesn’t matter the sport — or the business — it’s all similar. If you do really good things as a leader, you have really good vision for how you’re going to win, how you’re going to practice, how you’re going to execute, what players to put on the field. All that is very relatable.

“With my guys (at Origin), all these people I have working for me, I have some amazing people on our team.”

Christine also is quick to credit her years of playing athletics at a high level for helping her develop the time management skills needed to be a high-ranking executive for a sizable company, all while devoting the necessary time needed to raise a family.

‘Thick as thieves’

Wyatt will likely be in college by next football season, while the Chase twins already have plans to play again for the Huskies football team next fall.

Even though they’ll likely have to support each other from afar, you can bet Wyatt and his sisters will continue to be each other’s No. 1 fans on the football field next fall.

While they finally received the chance to be on the same team and compete in the same sport this past fall, the siblings have happily gone out of their way to support each other in other sports, as well.

“Whenever we’ve had open time, we truly try to make it to each other’s sports,” Lucy said. “It’s definitely been a change going from football and seeing each other every day to going to our own separate sports in the winter. But, I still feel like we try to be there for each other.”

Even though Wyatt is two years ahead of Lucy and Vivi in school, he’s only 19 months older than them.

So, naturally, Wyatt has been close with his younger sisters all their lives.

That bond has only strengthened throughout the years.

Wyatt has been a supportive mentor to his sisters on the football field.

Conversely, when Wyatt breaks off a big run or delivers a critical tackle, Vivi and Lucy are the first to raise off the bench to their feet and cheer big brother on.

That close bond extends beyond the football field, as well.

“They’re as thick as thieves,” Christine said. “It’s very cool to see. As parents, you feel very grateful when your kids get to the point where they would rather actually hang out with each other rather than someone else. Wyatt is definitely the leader in that for sure. The girls look up to him.”

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