Cletus F.

I am a coaching veteran with 37 years of coaching experience. I have worked with football athletes from middle school through college. While I was a head coach, I had the opportunity to work with all positions including kickers. My specialty, however, is in the offensive and defensive backfield. My career began at the University of Nebraska as an assistant coaching the defensive backfield on the freshman team. A year later I was an assistant coach for the defensive back on varsity. During that time Nebraska played in the Orange, Cotten, Bluebonnet, Sugar Bowl, and won the Big 8 Title. Later, I coached Defensive backs at Weber State University, then became the head football coach at Hastings High School in Nebraska, head coach at Cotulla H.S., Shepherd H.S., and Hardin Jefferson H.S. in Texas. I was the Defensive Coordinator At Chapel Hill H.S. and Port Neches-Groves also in Texas. Lastly, I came out of retirement to become the head coach at Central Middle School in Nederland and served as defensive coordinator and line coach at C.O. Wilson Middle School also in Nederland.

As a high schooler I was all city defensive back in Lincoln Nebraska in 1968. I was a scholarship recipient of McCook Junior College, and later on at the University of Nebraska to play football. I played on the National Championship team of 1971 and was a three year letterman at Nebraska. As a senior I was captain of the special teams.

We will begin our session with flexibility training and from there move to agility drills. I like to make sure the athlete has warmed up their muscles well because agility is important for any position on the field. I will make sure athletes are hydrated, especially in hot weather, allowing us to recover from muscle fatigue. I will teach basic fundamentals that pertain to the position that the athlete plays. Our goal is to train the athlete to be fundamentally sound in their technique. Following technique work, we will do drills specific to the position the athlete plays. However, some drills pertain to all positions, such as tackling (I teach tackling techniques that emphasize safety as well as sound fundamentals). All through the session I will explain why we do a certain drill and its benefits to you, the athlete, preparing you to compete for a position on your respective team. We use drills that each athlete can do, keeping in mind the age and skill level of our athlete . Finally, we will wrap up our session with some conditioning work that generally consists of movement activities such as running which is of prime importance.