Cubs - National

Coach Tony will be entering his 4th year with the BBGC football program this season. He began coaching flag football with Coach Jason Reynolds in 2005, and has remained with that staff through last season’s championship run at the Cubs National level, a team considered “overachievers” by some that fell 2 points short in the CBL championship game at Georgetown Prep, but proved to the Bulldog faithful that there were champions wearing Orange and Black! This will be his first season as head coach, but his unwavering coaching priorities will follow, “The KIDS come FIRST” sits atop that list. Coach Tony has focused on all “three” sides of the ball while playing and coaching: Offens e, Defense, and Special Teams, and he believes that all three facets of the game must be taught in order to fully develop and prepare each player for a fulfilling career in this wonderful game of football. He played youth football in the Jabbo-Kenner league for the Lamond Riggs Steelers under Coach Tony Hill, then at the High School level in the Interhigh/DCIAA for the Wilson Tigers under Coach Horace Fleming during their last championship season.

“Building great human beings” has been a goal shared amongst this football staff since they got things going back in 2005, and this will be the case with the 2008 Cubs Nationals. We have our kids on the field for between 7 and 12 hours per week, and we don’t restrict the coaching to just sports, but we strive to teach teamwork, sportsmanship, the importance of education, respect for yourself and others, and other life lessons while under those lights. These are the times our kids build memories, and we work to make sure those memories will impact their lives both on and off the field.

Coach Tony also coaches Baseball and Basketball for BBGC and says that seeing each and every child develop throughout each season and the next while learning the fundamentals of the game keeps him looking forward to the next sport. Each child will be pushed to improve from day one: “Good – Better – Best; don’t let it rest, until your Good is your Better, and your Better is your Best” has been a motto shared amongst his teams. He has 2 sons currently in the program and a daughter that is on her way to wearing the orange and black; but he treats each and every child on his team no differently than one of his own, and would have it no other way.