Overview - Division 3

This team is for athletes who are 12 & 13 years old on or before 11/30/2019, and 14 year old's who turn 14 after August 1, 2019. No player shall enter the 9th grade during the season.  There is a weight limit for Division 3 football players (this weight limit has not been set for the 2019 season yet).*

The Division 3 program is designed to prepare athletes for football in high school. Coaches teach and build upon the fundamentals of football while emphasizing sportsmanship, leadership, team work, commitment, discipline, and self-confidence.  Athletic conditioning, play strategy, and memorization of plays are additional components that athletes focus on. 

Our coaches teach by example and all Coaches will be USA Football Youth Tackle Certified with the Heads Up Training method. Coaches stress the importance of the players being scholar-athletes, with good grades, and emphasize the importance of the players being leaders in their community, school, clubs, and other extra curriculars. 

*The 2018 Weight Limit and rules for Division 3:

- Weight Limit 161 pounds.

- Players must weigh within 10 pounds of the maximum weight for the division in order to start practice on August 1, 2019. 

- Players can weigh more than this during the summer conditioning camps.

- In-Season weigh-ins are conducted before each game. All players must be weighed before each game.  Any player who does not make weight will be ineligible to play for that entire game.

- A player may remove the clothes from the waist up, as well as socks and shoes only, to make the required weight.  An allowance of 3 pounds will be given for pants, knee pads, hip pads, thigh pads, jock and underwear. Total weight not to exceed 164 pounds.