COACHELLA SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT, SOCAL COYOTES NAME BEN WEHRLI MEDICAL DIRECTOR (INDIO) – Coachella Sports & Entertainment Stadium Authority (CSESA) has appointed Dr. Ben Wehrli as Medical Director of the Shield at 1 Coyote Way® and the SoCal Coyotes, its non-profit leadership organization that is America’s #1 Developmental Pro Football Program™. The appointment of Dr. Wehrli is one of several public senior-level moves by CSESA that continue to indicate the two-year-old … Read More
CHANGE ABOUNDS AS SIX-TIME CHAMPION COYOTES PREPARE FOR MINI-CAMP JUNE 29 (INDIO) – On June 29, the six-time champion SoCal Coyotes will open their 2019 mini-camp, as preparations officially get underway for the non-profit organization’s 12th season. Mini-camps are typically glorified practices to remind the players that the real training camp – and 120-degree temperatures – are hovering just around the corner. The coaches for ‘America’s #1 Developmental Pro Football Program™’ … Read More
CSESA, SOCAL COYOTES APPOINT FORMER INDIO MAYOR MICHAEL WILSON (PALM DESERT) – “I’m ready to honor God in all we do, serve others, build this community, and shock the world.” With those words, former Indio Mayor Michael Wilson – one of Southern California’s most decorated public servants with a four-decade proven track record among community groups, elected officials, and key stakeholders – accepted his appointment this week to the … Read More
25,000 FOLLOWERS: SOCAL COYOTES AMONG NATION’S FASTEST-GROWING SPORTS BRANDS (INDIO) – The SoCal Coyotes – America’s #1 Developmental Pro Football Program™ – soared to 25,000 organic followers and Facebook ‘likes’ this week, as the non-profit sports leadership organization continued its remarkable climb as one of the nation’s fastest-growing sports brands. Among Coachella Valley landmarks and icons, the Coyotes have eclipsed the Indian Wells Tennis Garden (9,021), Thermal Club Race … Read More
COYOTES ‘RESTORE THE ROAR’ AT INDIO MIDDLE SCHOOL FOR FIFTH STRAIGHT YEAR (INDIO) – The SoCal Coyotes delivered their ‘Restore the Roar’ educational program recently at Indio Middle School to day-long, packed auditoriums of over a thousand Coachella Valley youth. America’s #1 Developmental Pro Football Program was a conveyor belt of character, competence and connection, mixing an array of audio-visuals, highlights, awards, music and curriculum to challenge, entertain, reward and ignite students … Read More
RESURGENT COYOTES HARPOON CALIFORNIA SHARKS 44-0 (GRANADA HILLS) – Behind a furious assault from their ‘Darkside Defense,’ the five-time champion SoCal Coyotes harpooned the California Sharks 44-0 Saturday night in Developmental Football International (DFI) action at John Elway Stadium. A strip sack in the game’s first minute resulted in the first Coyote touchdown, which set the tone for a dominating defensive performance. After losing their first … Read More
LEADERSHIP, AND SOLITUDE: Q&A WITH COYOTES ALL-TIME SACK-LEADER JAKE SHEFFIELD (INDIO) – It’s a Wednesday night, and the SoCal Coyotes all-time sack leader is sitting in church alone, flipping through his Bible, waiting on the service to begin. He is quiet, and calm, the opposite of the violent maelstrom he is on the field. An unstoppable force with America’s #1 Developmental Pro Football Program™ since 2014, Sheffield has laid out … Read More
COYOTES ABOVE THE LINE™ PROGRAM SURGES TO NEW HEIGHTS (INDIO) – For the past six years, the SoCal Coyotes non-profit leadership organization has given Coachella Valley educators something they not only want, but also what schools so desperately need. The Coyotes Above The Line™ leadership program traces its roots back to 2012, when team Founder and Head Coach J David Miller first created and implemented a curriculum for local … Read More
INSIDE THE CHAMPION COYOTES 2018 REBUILD OF TEAM, STAFF Spring marks the start of a new season for Coyote football. J David Miller faces the tough challenge of rebuilding his championship team – again. (INDIO) – The blessing and curse of SoCal Coyotes football is that every season’s success or failure is only measured by a championship – followed by an exodus of great players the organization recruited, nurtured and … Read More
LOCAL PREP FOOTBALL STARS JOIN COYOTES TO TEACH A LIFE ‘ABOVE THE LINE’ (INDIO) – Nearly 1,500 local young leaders at Desert Ridge Academy middle school learned to calibrate their moral compass, embrace authority, and discover powerful life skills during a rollicking ‘Above the Line’ leadership symposium from the SoCal Coyotes non-profit organization. Team football captains from Cathedral City High and Shadow Hills High – both of whom participate in the Coyotes award-winning … Read More