In the spring of 2020, Dug Keynes was burned and finished training football.
“The Covid season probably broke me,” he said.
He was the head coach at Dos Pueblos High since 2018. He was the head coach in Santa Barbara from 2012 to 2014. He remained in Dos Pueblos as a teacher of media -arts and focused on his children.
Then, in 2023, they turned to him to become a football coach for girls in the first season of sports. This changed his life.
“Honestly, I never had such a cheerful coaching football,” he said. “Man is fun. Girls simply train and want to play, and most of them are other athletes in the first place. ”
Dos Pueblos Flag Football receiver Brooklyn Hedrix (left -tierbek Kasei Herley.
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This feeling of fun, players who want to learn, and parents watch to enjoy the game, instead of worrying about college recruiters, best describes the third season of flag football. Everyone understands that this cleanliness probably will not last long. Players are already offered football scholarships in colleges. Secondary schools began to look for players.
Nevertheless, participants enjoy simply the opportunity to go in for sports, which used to be reserved for boys.
“Until the first year, I never played and never heard about it,” said Star Dos Pueblos receiver/defender Brooklyn Hendrix, whose father, George, is the head coach of the Flag coach.
The head coach of Dos Pueblos Dag Keynes, in the center, talks with his players during the break.
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She was a player for many years in softball. Her parents spent a lot of time and money when she took her into games throughout the country. Guess what happened in her primary school?
“Softball was my best sport, but, frankly, football is my best,” she said. “Getting a scholarship proposal is crazy.”
DOS Pueblos-18-2 and part of a strong group of teams from Ventura County and Santa Barbara district, ready to challenge powerful teams in the Okinj County. Dos Pueblos took 18-1 orange Lutheran until overtime before losing.
“It was the most intense game in which I played,” Hendrix said. “It was such a battle back and forth. It was so fun. “
In addition to Hendrix, which has more than 30 interceptions in his Flag football career, Casey Herley defender was a key participant. Last season, Herli was the center, clicking the ball to the defender. Now she is the only shooting spiral, with 49 passages of landing so far.
The regular season ends on October 15th. The play -off will take place on October 21, 25, 28 and November 1 with the championship games on November 8.
Keynes was lively and rejuvenated.
“It was magical,” he said. “The first year was so funny. No expectations. Everything was new – the first game, the first landing, the first interception. We were able to keep it. “
Based on Kane's coaching experience, a real tendency in the coming years can be a football veteran of 11 people switched to football to return to the days when players studied from scratch and evaluate every moment in practice and games.
Meanwhile, players will continue to have strange dances before and after the games, using Eyeblack, as if it were makeup, and, above all, fun to have fun, which is not their main one, but it may be once.
“This team has excellent chemistry,” said Hendrix. “There is no drama. We have a good set of trainers, we are focused on having fun. We love victory. This is cool. But this is rather a family. ”
