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enjoy trumps anything else David experienced before becoming a father.
“It really is the neatest thing in the world.” David said. “I was fortunate enough to play at Georgia but being their dad, there’s nothing that compares to it.”
Like their father, West and Whit began playing football when they were in the first grade. Zach would have started at the same time, but a broken arm forced him to wait a year.
The three brothers committed themselves to football years ago. Their father was with them in every phase of their career so far.
“He’s always kind of been our coach,” West said. “I wouldn’t say that we wouldn’t have played (without David’s influence) because we definitely would have played, but he definitely had a role helping us when we were kids.”
West completed his senior season in fall 2020. Whit was a sophomore and Zach was in the seventh grade at the time.
They each competed in the fall knowing David was on the sideline cheering them on.
As offensive line coach for the Warriors, David was at every one of West and Whit’s practices and games. He was Zach’s head coach during the final year of his youth football career.
The brothers say that David instilled in them a strong work ethic.
“He’s always kind of pushed us,” West said. “He pushed us so hard when we were little kids that now it’s kind of easy.”
When it was necessary, David made sure to dial back the coach element of his relationships with his sons. After all, life is not just about football.
“No matter what happened—whether we win or lose, we have a good day at practice or a bad day at practice—when we get back in that car, we don’t talk football anymore,” David said.
West said that allowed for the brothers to have a strong relationship with their father.
They usually view him as just one of the Warriors’ coaches during competition but, when one of the Weeks brothers succeeds on the field, his fatherly pride shines through.
“On Friday nights, if one of us makes a good play, he’ll get really happy and be like, ‘Good job, good job,’” Whit said. “That’s when I’m like, ‘Oh yeah, he feels like my dad.’”
Ex-UGA center David Weeks and his three boys, from left, West, Whit and Zach, were featured in the summer 2012 issue of OCONEE THE MAGAZINE.
From left, West Weeks, David Weeks, Whit Weeks and Zach Weeks have spent most of their careers playing or coaching each other at different levels of football.
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