Young athletes in Lusk recently wrapped up their flag football and volleyball seasons.
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LUSK – Young athletes in Lusk recently wrapped up their flag football and volleyball seasons.
Flag football, while not in its first year, looked a bit different as Lusk lacked any nearby opponents. Chelle Fife and her husband, Camron, stepped up to coach to keep the sport going. Because there were no nearby teams to compete with, the roughly 24 players practiced on Tuesdays and Thursdays and played just one game, a scrimmage among themselves on Oct. 17.
The season wasn’t Chelle Fife’s first as a flag football coach, as she coached her son Aiden’s team in Colorado in the past.
“It was a lot of fun, my husband really enjoyed it,” she said. “He was excited to see some of the potential in some of the players for actual peewee football.”
Flag football is a good alternative to tackle football for young kids, Fife said. Aidan is seven years old, so he plans to start peewee football next year and to hopefully continue with flag football as well.
The flag football team this year consisted of players around Aiden’s age.
“I have nothing against regular football, because my son would actually like to play next year,” Fife said. “But minimizing a lot of that contact and getting the fundamentals down for football while they’re young without injuring them is our goal.”
Fife said she and Jessica Yeager, Lusk recreation director, plan to reach out to neighboring towns about starting a flag football program to compete with Lusk’s.