Should i work out before practice to avoid embarrassment

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as well as added soreness?

like it would warm me up and make me stronger right? i mean not today cuz im going to the 9am one and should probably get going lol

I can't imagine how doing something like heavy squats, deadlifts, or presses would be helpful right before football practice. Seems like that would give a higher potential for knee and back injuries... But warm ups is a whole different thing which you should research... Actual warm ups are pretty much required before doing hard exercise, stretching afterwards would be great too, all of it gets the blood flowing, and loosen you up before hard work, so you will be less prone to injury. Football practice would seem to be hard exercise, although I don't know very much about football practice involving 15 year olds.

If you are sore and worn out after working out, you probably won't feel good during foot ball practice or after it, and if it's rough out there, you open yourself up to injuries a lot more.

No matter how good a shape you are in, you are going to be sore. My oldest son tried out for football when he was 15. Tryouts were in the early spring here and they had two weeks of daily practice to go to before the coach picked who was going to be on the team. My son had started working the summer before as a roofer, basically full time. He started out as a helper which meant bringing the guys stuff they needed on the roof, cleaning up the old shingles they threw down, carrying full packs of shingles up the ladder to them (100 plus pounds carried on one shoulder) etc and had continued to work through the winter part time and was working again after school and on weekends by the time of tryouts. So, he was in pretty good shape.

He went to the first practice and the coach ran them and ran them and ran them. He was not used to running although roofing and toting heavy stuff up and down a ladder in the hot sun does give you some endurance. He would have been fine with the throwing, tackling, being tackled, etc. It was the running that got him. He came home and went to bed and said "forget it". He was so sore the next day from the running. I had seen the boy work on a roof for 12 straight hours then come home and shower and go out with friends. A two hour practice did him in.

So, count on the soreness. If you are used to the running then the other aspects of it might get you sore. The more you keep at it, the less sore you will be. I wouldn't worry about embarrassment, I'd worry about the ability to play the game good. Thats what the coach is looking at. He wants to see what you can do better than the other guys. Can you run faster, are you better at evading the other players if you are running with the ball, do you throw farther or with more accuracy, can you kick a field goal almost every time, are you great at catching, can you tackle good, are you able to take a hit good and keep on going? He will pick players on their strengths and he needs all of those different ones listed. Some may have only one, others may have several. Your goal is to be better than most of the other guys at one of those things.

Everybody is going to be concentrating on their own performance, not on others. Unless you just cannot do whichever exercise he's having ya'll do, there is no need to be embarrassed. I'm assuming that these are tryouts, right? I'd ask the coach privately, either before or after practice, what you can do to improve more and to be able to possibly make the team.

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You should work out but maybe not right before practice. Do warm ups before practice. Are warm ups what you mean by working out? Warm ups will help your muscles and joints not be so stiff during practice.

To be honest, I wouldn't recommend a heavy workout with compound lifts before a practice unless you have time for a meal + a nap before going into practice. I tend to subscribe to the philosophy of "warm up doing what you're going to do after warming up" IE, I do light bench pressing before heavy bench pressing etc.