Legacy High School football coach Wayne Voorhees will serve as a USA Football Master Trainer to promote a better and safer football game for youth nationwide.
USA Football instructed Voorhees and 20 other football experts, including high school coaches and former NFL and college players, from 16 states as USA Football Master Trainers during a workshop Jan. 25-26 in Indianapolis.
USA Football’s Heads Up Football program is a comprehensive approach to a better and safer game. The main issues the coaches learned were concussion recognition and response, medical expert-approved heat and hydration protocols, equipment fitting instruction and Heads Up tackling techniques.
Nearly 2,800 youth leagues across the United States registered for the Heads Up Football in 2013. USA Football will offer its program to all youth leagues and high school in 2014.
After completing the workshop, the Master Trainers will teach youth leagues in their regions on Heads Up Football principles.
Voorhees, a social studies teacher at Legacy, has been coaching high school football for 21 years, including 11 years for the Lightning. He is 54-33 with nine playoff appearances. Voorhees was the Denver Broncos 2011 nominee for the Don Shula NFL High School Coach of the Year Award.
National Flag Football coming to Thornton
The Nation’s largest youth flag football league in the country is coming to Colorado this spring. The program is a safe and fun league for all skill levels ages 4-14 and is designed to educate young people about football while also emphasizing participation and sportsmanship. The players learn skills and lessons that help them succeed both on and off the field.
The league begins the first week of April and ends the first week of June. Registration is open for the spring league through Feb. 28 at www.nationalflagfootball.com
Anyone who participates will get a reversible National Football League Flag Football jersey.
The season will consist of seven games located at eight high school football fields including Adams Five Star Stadium in Thornton.
For more information call 720-360-1600 or visit www.coloradoflagfootball.com.
