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The curtain was pulled back on a new football season during Adams County Christian School Meet the Rebels Thursday night. Varsity cheerleaders take the field from the school’s new inflatable tunnel and helmet. (Ben Hillyer / The Natchez Democrat)

A new inflatbale tunnel and helmet are one of the many new additions to the ACCS football facilities.

The Adams County Christian School softball team gets ready to walk out on the field during Meet the Rebels Thursday night at Bobby Marks Stadium on the ACCS campus.

Little Rebelettes, below right, watch the action from the helmet. (Ben Hillyer / The Natchez Democrat)

ACCS quarterback Sterling Yarbrough is introduced to the crowd Thursday night. (Ben Hillyer / The Natchez Democrat)

Adams County Christian School fans enjoy Meet the Rebels night Thursday from a new set of aluminum stands on the home side of Bobby Marks Stadium. The stands replace a set of old wooden bleachers.

Scenes from Thursday night's Meet the Rebels. (Ben Hillyer / The Natchez Democrat)

Scenes from Thursday night's Meet the Rebels. (Ben Hillyer / The Natchez Democrat)

Scenes from Thursday night's Meet the Rebels. (Ben Hillyer / The Natchez Democrat)

NATCHEZ — Adams County Christian School unveiled a new look and a new attitude Thursday night during its annual Meet the Rebels event at Bobby Marks Stadium.

From the bleachers to the locker room, Rebel fans and players enjoyed numerous changes the school made during the summer break.

AC Rebels President Tee Cotten said the school’s booster club, the school’s Parent Teacher League and the school worked hard over the summer making upgrades to the football stadium and the team’s training facility.

The most noticeable change for Rebel Nation fans Thursday night were the bleachers on the home side of the field.

The old wooden stands have been replaced with aluminum seats, steps and floorboards.

“We had been replacing boards and replacing boards and replacing boards,” Cotten said of the old stadium seats. “We needed a major upgrade.”

With the new stadium seating, Cotten said, the school also installed new fencing and windscreens.

Cotten said the school also made changes to the stands on the visitors’ side of the field, replacing all of the seats with new wooden boards.

On the field, ACCS athletes were introduced to fans with a new inflatable tunnel and helmet, which will be used at the beginning of each home football game.

Cotten said other changes ACCS fans and visitors will notice include improvements to the school concession stand.

“We gutted the concession stands and started over,” Cotten said. “My No. 1 goal is to have the best concession stand in the (Mississippi Association of Independent Schools).”

Inside the locker room, coaches and players have enjoyed a new locker room and new weight room.

Cotten said the football facility had not been updated since before the mid 1980s.

ACCS head coach and headmaster David King said before the change, the locker room hadn’t been upgraded in a long time.

“It looked just like it did when I was running around here,” King said.

Changes to the locker room, Cotten said, include new paint, new carpet and new locker cabinets.

New weightlifting equipment and lockers came from the old Trinity Episcopal Day School field house, Cotten said.

King said the entire school is very proud of what has been accomplished.

“The booster club has done a tremendous job and our school board been very proacrive in letting us upgrade some of these outdated facilities,” King said. “We are very proud of what they have been able to accomplish in a little time.

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