New season but same goal for 2022 Panther gridders

Timber Lake opens fall football this Friday in Lemmon

  • Head Coach Ryan Gimbel leads the Timber Lake Panthers through an offensive drill during practice at Doug Kraft Field on Monday. The Panthers will open their 2022 football season on Friday, Aug. 19, facing Lemmon-McIntosh in Lemmon. Photo by Jon Flatland
    Head Coach Ryan Gimbel leads the Timber Lake Panthers through an offensive drill during practice at Doug Kraft Field on Monday. The Panthers will open their 2022 football season on Friday, Aug. 19, facing Lemmon-McIntosh in Lemmon. Photo by Jon Flatland
  • Gracen Hansen
    Gracen Hansen
  • Slater Ducheneaux
    Slater Ducheneaux
  • AJ Lindskov
    AJ Lindskov
  • Dan Peterson
    Dan Peterson

    If Timber Lake head football coach Ryan Gimbel could compare his 2022 squad with something that adequately describes it, he’d tell you the Panthers are like a high-performance racing motorcycle.

    “With only one gear - Go - and only one speed - Fast,” said the fourthyear coach who last year was named Region 8 Coach of the Year after leading Timber Lake to a 9-2 overall record that saw the Panthers ad…