Confidence on the football field is beginning to pay off
Photographs courtesy Pack family
Swagger and confidence. Junie Pack certainly isn’t lacking either quality. He brings those intangibles to the football field to help Old Mill High School win games. In fact, Pack might just be the most confident player in Anne Arundel County.
Pack displayed both of those things in many ways as a freshman, when he spoke often to the entire Old Mill football team like he was a co-captain. “It’s all about confidence and his confidence is off the charts,” Old Mill Football Coach Joey Hall says.
Pack’s confidence grew more and more during the 2024 season. The proof? Pack recorded eight interceptions, an unusual total for a high school player and especially a freshman. Things only got better for the speedy Pack, now a sophomore. He received seven verbal scholarship offers between his freshman and sophomore seasons. Two offers from college coaches have come from respected programs like the University of Syracuse and Virginia Tech University. Pack plans to commit to a college in 2027.
The Old Mill coaching staff expects many more offers to come within the next year or so as the 5-foot-10, 170-pound Pack improves as a player and gets more exposure. Attending a few college football camps this summer will raise his profile and likely get him more offers.
“Once a team like Syracuse [is interested] more offers will come,” Hall says. “I think it will be more about going to camps next summer. Once he starts going to camps on the East Coast, I think the power five schools will start offering him. He could get as many as 30 offers.”
Pack adds, “My favorite school is Ohio State.”
On top of those offers, Pack’s maturity and on-the-field production enabled him to be voted a co-captain by his teammates this past season. He was only 15 years old.
“After the 2024 season, I was one of those guys who thought I wasn’t going to be a captain,” Pack explains. “I had to look at things different for everybody on the team instead of me. I had work with guys who never played on the varsity before. After practices, I talk to the whole team.”
With his eye-catching freshman year, opponents did not throw the ball to his side of the field much. Only seven times with three pass breakups. If rival teams targeted him more, he certainly would have more interceptions. As a freshman, teams completed just two passes in 25 attempts thrown his way.
Photographs courtesy Pack family
“He hasn’t been tried deep at all,” Old Mill’s defensive coordinator explains, “his specialty last year was a 50/50 ball. He won them a majority of the time.”
Pack, a Glen Burnie resident, had a memorable 2024 season. Besides his eight interceptions, he returned two interceptions for touchdowns. Pack also made 22 tackles—which ranked second on the team and forced two fumbles. Those numbers helped him earn First-Team All-County and Associated Press All-State honors.
Pack played his best game of the season in late November against Suitland of Prince George’s County in a second-round contest. He intercepted a pass and recorded six tackles in a 47-7 thumping of Suitland of Prince George’s County.
That season, Old Mill advanced to the Class 4A-3A state semifinal and lost to North Point of Charles County.
Old Mill’s staff can’t wait to see how the rest of high school career plays out. Hall et al expect him to be nationally ranked during his junior or senior season. At college camps in 2026, Pack could run the 40-yard dash in the 4.4 or 4.5 seconds, according to Hall. “He is a bigtime playmaker and can do anything he wants on the field.”
