2013 Mesquite tournament highlights

Even though the weather wasn't ideal, I still had a blast watching you guys close out your season and end it on a high note. I'm so proud of you all and all you've accomplished over the years. My blog will continue to stay up so if you're ever feeling nostalgic, stop on by and look up a piece of your history.

All stats for the season are finished and available in the link on the right hand side.

Enjoy the video

Team documentary

Parents/Players: I'm going to do a short little documentary on the past 5 years being champions and I want to interview each of the boys while we're down at the tournament (on camera); this includes boys that have only been on the team a short time. I will be asking the following questions and I want your boys to be prepared with a response to each. Have them ponder the questions and be ready when I ask them. We'll be setting up a canopy down at the fields and I'll interview inside the the canopy.

Here are the questions:

- Earliest memory of playing little league football (who was it for)
- Favorite win (who was it, why was it your favorite)
- Favorite personal moment playing football (what about it made it your favorite)
- Favorite offensive play to run (why)
- Toughest win (why)
- Toughest loss (why)
- What will you miss the most about playing in little league
- What did you learn from being on this team that you think will help you playing high school football
- How does it feel to be a part of this team with the tradition we have
- What helped you be so successful
- 1-2 most important lessons you learned from playing football on this team

If you need a reference to past seasons (I know our memories can all be short), check out the links on the right side of this page that show the past season game scores and stats. You can go further into previous years and find highlights from each game every year back to 2009. 

I'll text you all when we're down there to see when we can do your interviews. It will likely take 5-10 minutes. 

Kearns 15, Jordan 14 (National Division Championship)

I know like most of you, I'm still on the high of winning this huge game today. So much adversity has plagued us this season but we continued to fight on.

I'm so thankful to be able to coach you all and I'm excited to see how you guys progress at the high school level. Remember how it felt today to win this game and how you never quit and never get your heads down. You're going to be in the same situation many times in your life; always look back to this day.

Thank you so much to all of the parents and their families for coming to support us. Thank you to all the coaches for the hard work. Thank you to coach Rickards for his commitment to providing support and being at all of our games.

I got goose bumps at the end when I was putting this video together. I hope you all enjoy!

Kearns offense vs Jordan

Please take time to watch this video and become more familiar with the Jordan Defense vs our Offense. Note some of the changes we have to make in order to execute our offense better against them. Watch this video as much as you have time to do; REPETITION IS THE KEY TO ALL LEARNING.

Kearns 28, West Jordan 18 (National Conference Playoffs)

A little closer than we would like the score to be, but I think we played a really good team in West Jordan. Those guys fought so hard and were devastated when they lost, which means they were giving it their all.

We have one more regular season game to go and that is the championship game against Jordan at Jordan's home field. Jordan will be a real challenge because they have a new QB that looks even better than their original starter (one of the twins, #9). Come to practice ready to work hard and be prepared to beat Jordan.

Enjoy these highlights from our game; season stats are updated on the link to the right.

Kearns 34, Brighton 6

What a great way to close out the season by a good convincing win over Brighton. I'm proud of you all for working so hard, but the work is not over. Now it's time to really up our work during practice and be mentally ready for our opponents during the playoffs and championship games. We MUST be up for these games and maintain intensity through out our games from beginning to end.

Kearns 34, Woods Cross 13

We played a great complete game. Woods Cross is a very good team and we forced key turnovers at times against their offense, and we executed our offense the way we were supposed to. We will be preparing for our game against Brighton this week, as well as some prep for our playoffs. Remember to keep icing any injuries you may have; our team is getting thinner and thinner each week.

Stats are updated on the right hand side link.