#football_coach

Professional Update

I don’t write much here any more – too much time writing on other places on the Internet. I at least used to be frequent about travel writing here, but Julie...

August 2015 Business Update

We are officially through our first six months of our business launch, and July was an amazing month. In addition to launching our site focused on travel pla...

Our Next Chapter, Five Months Later

Julie and I are nearly 5 months into our next chapter and I'm going to share some updates on how things are going. I mentioned then that I was starting a new...

Update on my Wing-T Coach Activities

I've got a brief follow-up to my post last month on our next chapter. Earlier this month I published my first book on the Wing-T for youth football. If you a...

Our Next Chapter

A lot of folks have been asking me "what's next?" Did I retire? Am I joining a new startup? In some ways the answer is a bit more complicated than that, but ...

2010 Football Recap

Judging from the traffic this blog still gets I think I owe my audience much more frequent updates than I’ve been providing (here I am talking about blogging...

Week 2 and 3 Updates

I'm behind on game updates – let’s catch up on games 2 and 3. Game 2 – Tigard We played a very strong Tigard team a week ago and came up short, losing the sp...

2010 Season - Week 1 Report

Football season is in full swing which can make it hard to keep up with posts here. I’ll try to at least do a weekly update on how our prior game went and my...

Down 6 Players, Heavy Rains Expected

Today we play a tough Liberty team at Sherwood High School at 5pm. It has been raining hard all day and we are down to just 19 players due to illness that is...

Game 5 result: Sherwood 58, Aloha 28

We continued our unbeaten streak last Saturday vs Aloha Gold in a game that felt much closer than the final score. Aloha brought a very strong passing attack...

Game 4 result: Sherwood 32, SEI 0

We kept our season perfect with a resounding 32-0 win on Saturday. Execution was strong but far from perfect, but we were up by 32 by half time and had to ke...

Game 3 Result - Sherwood 45, Beaverton 18

I missed a football game as coach for the first time in two years so that I could attend and host a fundraising dinner for the TechStart Education Foundation...

Game 2 Highlights

I promised to post some highlights from our second game against St Helens. We had some great things happen, but if you watch closely you'll see how a great r...

Game 2 result: Sherwood 33, St Helens 7

We had a much better showing on offense this week, gaining over 300 yards with a decent mix of passing and running. It was nice having our starting fullback ...

Game 1 result: Sherwood 16, Aloha Blue 12

Our first game was a grinding victory that found us needing a sustained drive to score with only 6 minutes left in the game. The defense was extremely solid,...

Our Defensive Scheme

We've nearly installed our defense for the year as of this week. I'll work on a few minor additions over the next 2 weeks, and we will always make small adju...

Jamboree - first scrimmage

We participated in the Tigard jamboree this weekend with mostly positive results. Our defense was stellar and is ahead of where I hoped to be by now - we've ...

Draft Night

Tonight is our draft, and it is coming none too soon. Usually after a single day of contact we have a pretty good idea of our desired picks, and through a nu...

Transition to Full Contact

This morning (Saturday) Jim and I will be running our makeup practice for kids who missed one or more conditioning workouts during the week. Players are limi...

Our Draft Process - Impact Player Selection

Our team draft strategy is to ensure that we balance all of the teams at each level as much as possible while taking into consideration each coach's personal...

Sherwood Bowmen Football Camp

A week ago my 7th grade son Matthew participated in the annual Sherwood Bowmen football camp, organized by the high school coaches and largely led by team m...

Preparing for the 2009 Season

Here's my action plan for getting ready for the 2009 football season: Meet with Jacob's defensive coach from last year (he helped lead their 8th grade vars...

About Me

My name is Chris Brooks and I coach youth football in Sherwood, Oregon. I have another blog where I talk about boardgames, travel, and family stuff. As of 20...

Football

I’m sitting here on a United flight from Connecticut to Chicago, watching a preview of the upcoming TV series “Friday Night Lights”.  This is a high school f...