(INDIO) – Only nine seconds remained, and the visiting California Sharks trailed the five-time champion SoCal Coyotes 22-20 – but were just 14 yards away from stealing a hard-to-come-by victory halfway through this Developmental Football International (DFI) season. A huge crowd sat perched and waiting on the edge of its collective seat, with no nails left to bite. For three …

(PALM SPRINGS) – In one extraordinary day, the SoCal Coyotes non-profit leadership organization impacted hundreds of youth from Palm Springs to Rancho Mirage, incorporating life lessons of perseverance, passion, and integrity into their award-winning Above the Line™ series. Led by SVP Ron DiGrandi, the five-time champion Coyotes began at the crack of dawn with the International Walk to School Day …

(INDIO) – Jeff Johnson, a veteran assistant football coach who helped lead Central Washington University to a 1995 national championship, has been named special teams coach and defensive assistant by the five-time champion SoCal Coyotes. America’s #1 Developmental Pro Football Program™ added Johnson in time for 2018 training camp, where he is coaching defensive backs and linebackers alongside assistant head …

(INDIO) – For the 11th time, the SoCal Coyotes will open training camp today to start another season. But don’t expect the enormity of America’s #1 Developmental Pro Football Program™ to change much in the home of head coach J David Miller, who isn’t the type to be easily knocked off track. The Coach starts his day each morning at …

(INDIO) – In August, the five-time champion SoCal Coyotes will report for their 11th training camp at Shadow Hills. Rookies report Thursday, August 16, while veterans report Friday, August 17, and orientation for both is that Thursday night. Two-a-days begin Saturday, August 18. To hold you until then – here’s five bold predictions to chew on. 1. DE Jeremiah Mitchell will emerge …

By Shad Powers, The Desert Sun (COACHELLA VALLEY) – A group called the Coachella Sports and Entertainment Stadium Authority will announce plans to build The Shield at 1 Coyote Way, a $300 million, 12,000-seat mixed-use stadium in Thousand Palms. J. David Miller, the founder and coach of the SoCal Coyotes developmental football team in the desert, launched the Coachella Sports …

(INDIO) – “How are you going to get there from here?” With those words, players and coaches of the SoCal Coyotes continued their award-winning ‘Above the Line’ leadership program recently at Martin Van Buren Elementary School – with an action-packed day of encouragement to kindergarten through fifth grade students. The event was headlined by Coyote team captain and college graduate …

(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 …

(PUNALUU, HAWAII) – SoCal Coyotes legendary offensive lineman Aaron Kia, who protected the blind-side of Nate ‘The Sheriff’ Lewis en route to the team’s second championship in fall 2013, was one of the Good Samaritans who helped rescue a woman whose car recently went off Kamehameha Highway and into the ocean in Punaluu. Kia, who was an offensive lineman for …

(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 …