{"id":231403,"date":"2019-08-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/a-growing-youth-sports-organization\/"},"modified":"2019-08-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T07:00:00","slug":"a-growing-youth-sports-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/a-growing-youth-sports-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"A growing youth sports organization"},"content":{"rendered":"

Por JEFF CLEMETSON | Mensajero de los tiempos de la misi\u00f3n<\/p>\n

When San Carlos Patriots Football and Cheer president Teshawn Johnson first joined the organization as a coach seven years ago, it had been \u201cweak for years.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was no vision over there. It wasn\u2019t rich in talent, per se,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

As Johnson moved up to vice president and then president of the Pop Warner organization, he teamed up with fellow coach Rod Williams and together they transformed the Patriots into a year-round youth sports organization that offers football practice, games and training as well as track and field and cheerleading. There is even a Challenger program for athletes with special needs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe linked up together and it\u2019s been like a match made in heaven. We came up with our own workout regimen for the kids and it\u2019s been pretty nice,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cWe implemented that system, [the players] took to it, it worked. And we came up with an offseason program to train them to go with it. We were successful, coming one game away from a national championship two years in row. So we figured, \u2018Hey this has got to be working so let\u2019s keep it going.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

In recent years, the San Carlos Patriots have grown from only having maybe two teams and a flag football team to fielding teams in every division for the last three or four years, Johnson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been seeing consistent growth the last couple years and we\u2019re projecting to be even bigger next year,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

A big part of the Patriots\u2019 growth is the training program, which focuses on more than just football.<\/p>\n

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Young flag football Patriots (Courtesy San Carlos Patriots)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cA lot of kids stay with us year-round,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cThey go from football to track and field to seven on seven. So we try to have an all-inclusive program to keep the kids active for most of the year. They train pretty hard.\u201d<\/p>\n

The hard-training team is developing and attracting standout talent. Talent like Isaiah \u201cThe Rocket\u201d Rodriguez \u2014 the fastest 7-year-old runner in San Diego, who is ranked as one of the top 10 sprinters in the West Coast. Quarterback Mathew Barton made the 14U U.S. National Football Team last season. Patrick Henry High athletes Jaydin Cook and Omar Hammond both came through the program as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been blessed to have real good talent the last couple years and it looks like it\u2019s going to stay strong the next few years to come,\u201d Coach Williams said.<\/p>\n

Johnson said the Patriots organization is now even attracting young athletes from outside of the Navajo area.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re recognizing what\u2019s going on in the San Carlos community and now we\u2019re getting ball players,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen we started out, we were just a little local organization in the community of San Carlos, but now people from all over the city are starting to make the trek to come over and be a part our organization \u2014 so it\u2019s something to be proud of.\u201d<\/p>\n

Football season for the San Carlos Patriots is currently underway and runs into November. For more information about the team, visit pwsancarlospatriots.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

- Comun\u00edquese con el editor Jeff Clemetson en jeff@sdnews.com<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By JEFF CLEMETSON |\u00a0Mission Times Courier When San Carlos Patriots Football and Cheer president Teshawn Johnson first joined the organization as a coach seven years ago, it had been \u201cweak for years.\u201d \u201cThere was no vision over there. It wasn\u2019t rich in talent, per se,\u201d he said. As Johnson moved up to vice president and […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":778,"featured_media":231404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11558","_seopress_titles_title":"A growing youth sports organization","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11547,11558,11553,11550],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-mission-times-courier","category-sports","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}