Focus on Safety First!:

Youth football is no longer taught or played the same as when many parents played.   Youth football is evolving, making significant changes to minimize risk and injuries – while focusing on increasing skill, technique and strength.    Pop Warner remains the ONLY national youth sports program that enforces a strict AGE & WEIGHT MATRIX reducing the risk and reality of injuries.

Our more recent changes include:

   * Mandatory certification of All Coaches in Heads-up Football“

   * Reduced practice contact to 20% or less of practice time, increased focus on technique & drills

   * Eliminated kickoffs for all younger divisions of play

   * Strict revisions to Referee rules and training to eliminate improper technique 

And for our league & association:

   * An investment in NEW state of the art helmets and equipment for every child in our program  

   * Adoption of HitCheck -- a mobile baseline & sideline concussion diagnostic tool

   * Elevation of Safety Sergeant to our Board of Directors, responsible for overseeing and enforcing safety changes for our children.

National and Regional Pop Warner is also continually working with national & colligate football programs, athletic vendors to and advance safety gear to make sure your children have the safest Football experience possible.

For more information about these and other recent Safety improvements with our program - please refer to the "Safety" section on our Website at www.lgcpopwarner.com.

   

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