2018 SMPW ALUMNI NATIONAL SIGNING DAY

CONGRATULATIONS to these former SMPW athlete's that went on to achieve athletic and academic success in High School and are now furthering their education and football in college and after that ......."SMPW provides foundation and LIFE lessons that are above and beyond just youth football...."

Tesoro - Joseph Rubio - Middlebury, Chase Petersen - Dixie State, James Williams - Cal State San Luis Obispo

JSerra - Matt Robinson - Illinois, TJ Medina - Air Force Academy,  Jake Haggard - University of Penn.

Mission Viejo - Olajah Griffin - USC, Christian La Valle - Arizona State, Austin Osborne - Washington, Jarrett Patterson - Notre Dame, Kanoah Tanuvasa - Dixie State, Chris Mitchell - Boise State

San Juan Hills - Matthew Rodriguez - New Mexico Highlands

Santa Margarita - Caden Fitch - University of SD, Chad Magyar - UNLV, Alex Kilander - Princeton, Jake Peters - Arizona,  Mark Eaton - University of Chicago

Trabuco Hills - Garrett Pinvidic - Benedictine

SMPW is teaming up with Dr. Mike Flores and team from AMP Sports Med in 2018 to provide cutting edge technology  for every SMPW player with Safety as the number 1 focus.

Dr. Mike  spoke on this new process at the SMPW Town Hall on June 11th.   The Town Hall was held during SMPW Physical Day at Athlete's Choice in Rancho Santa Margarita.   Dr. Mike spoke on concussion prevention and the use of KINETISENSE technology.

The Town Hall also featured current NFL Head Referee's Tony Corrente,  and Carl Cheffers who talked  about football safety from an officiating perspective and shared some NFL stories.   Tommy D,  of  Athlete's Choice spoke on effective player training  to round out our guest speakers.  

Look for additional innovation led by SMPW in 2019

In 2018, SMPW had all competitive level teams make the playoffs!   No other league has that happen.   It starts with coaching and organization.    Two teams played in Regional Championships with one winning the championship.   We had two of our cheer teams earn the opportunity to compete on the national stage in Orlando and our Varsity team placed 3rd in the USA!   No other youth football/Cheer comes close!   WHY? SMPW has better organization and better coaching than those other leagues. 5 of our head coaches have 20 years each experience in youth football and DON'T have kids on the team and 4 other head coaches have over 10 years experience each! 

In 2018, SMPW also became the new home of the MV COWBOYS program with multiple Cowboy Teams.   SMPW will keep the proud MV COWBOYS heritage alive.   You are in COWBOY COUNTRY!  Our Pee Wee Cowboys team is coached by the founding family fo the Mission Viejo Cowboys and played in the Regional Championships this year!    A second team was also coached by members of this family at Flag and finished the season undefeated!

At SMPW, we KNOW that coaches make the difference!    Over the past 22 years, SMPW has developed the reputation for having the "Biggest and Best" program and one of the main reasons is we recruit and retain only the BEST coaches.  For the past 5 years our league regularly gets 10% enrollment from "Other" youth football leagues and COACHES is a big reason.

Some of the Head Coaches for 2019   (Coaches will not be officially selected by interview committee until April)

• Mike Healy - 20+ years  - Multiple Orange Bowls - Regional Championships, National Championship Tournament
• Rick Pizzuti - 20+ years  - Multiple Orange Bowls - Regional Championships, National Championships tournament
• Mark Graves - 20+ years - Multiple Orange Bowls - Regional Championships, National Championships tournament
• Jim Staff - 20+ years - Multiple Orange Bowls, Regional Championships, National Championships tournament
• Robert Badraun - 10+ years - MV Cowboys - Multiple Orange Bowls, Regional Championships and OCJAAF Super Bowls 
• John Beisel - 10+ years - Multiple Orange Bowls and Regional Championships
• Errol Cruz - 10+ years - Multiple Orange Bowls
• Blake Badraun - 5+ years- MV Cowboys - Multiple Orange Bowls and Regional Championships
• Daniel Badraun - MV Cowboys - 5+ years
• Jason Croy - 5+ Years
• Justin Burtt, Mike Reed, John Neville, Casey Thompson AND MANY OTHERS

We are putting together our plans for 2019 RIGHT NOW.   If you want to be part of a winning organization that puts players first and is all about safety and teaching, join us in January  through April registrations.

Do you have a very gifted athlete that you are looking for a specific team make up?   Are you looking for a specific type of coach for  your son?   Do you want to join a team that could go all the way to the National Championships in Orlando?   LET US KNOW at smpopwarner@gmail.com   SMPW is putting together two types of teams in 2019; Championship format and Developmental format.

NO OTHER YOUTH FOOTBALL LEAGUE DOES A BETTER JOB THAN SMPW IN PREPARING PLAYERS FOR THE NEXT LEVEL OF PLAY!

"Santa Margarita Pop Warner has helped more youth athlete's to develop skills and earn starting roles in High School, College and the NFL than ANY other current youth football program in Orange County"