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Bradshaw competes in Florida for Great Britain 2/26/05
By Phil Stacey
Sports editor
Austin Bradshaw is spending his vacation in sunny Florida
this week. No, he's not checking up on how Red Sox spring
training is going. Rather, he's competing in the World Cup of
Flag Football for England.
Bradshaw, a substitute teacher at Higgins Middle School in
Peabody and founder of the popular NFL Youth Flag
Football program in the city, is captain and starting
quarterback for Team England, his native land.
"It's our fourth year taking part in this event," said Bradshaw,
who drove from Peabody down to Miami with two friends. "I'm
confident we'll have a very good team, our best ever."
Bradshaw said that Team English will have two practices
before the competition starts. Teams at the competition will
represent Canada, Mexico, Italy, Virgin Islands, Panama and
the United States, among others, in addition to England.
In their first year together, the English team finished fourth in
Miami three years ago. They had to settle for two seventh
place finishes in the Bahamas and the Dominican Republic
the previous two years.
This year the team is 32 players strong, which Bradshaw
believes will help tremendously.
"We'll have a minimum of three games a day, so it's exciting
that we have so many players," said Bradshaw. "The heat is
always something to contend with, especially for teams from
a much cooler climate. It was 90 degrees in the Dominican
last year; in addition to heat exhaustion we had to deal with
some severe cases of sunburn.
"We're aiming for at least a fourth place finish, maybe even
better."
Bradshaw said that his team is picked from all over England,
and that they had to qualify in Portsmouth (England) last
June to earn the right to represent their country.
After competing against between 12 and 14 other countries,
the event will conclude with an open round-robin tournament
against teams from all over the United States. All games are
being played at Barry University in Miami.
NFL Youth Flag Football registrations will be held outside the
Higgins Middle School cafeteria on March 12 and 19 from 9
a.m. to 12 noon. Bradshaw said all games will be held at the
Middle School lower fields, with children ages 6-8 playing on
Tuesdays, children ages 9-11 on Wednesdays, and children
ages 12-14 on Thursdays from 3-5 p.m. The co-ed league
runs from April 5 through May 31
By Phil Stacey
Sports editor
Austin Bradshaw is spending his vacation in sunny Florida
this week. No, he's not checking up on how Red Sox spring
training is going. Rather, he's competing in the World Cup of
Flag Football for England.
Bradshaw, a substitute teacher at Higgins Middle School in
Peabody and founder of the popular NFL Youth Flag
Football program in the city, is captain and starting
quarterback for Team England, his native land.
"It's our fourth year taking part in this event," said Bradshaw,
who drove from Peabody down to Miami with two friends. "I'm
confident we'll have a very good team, our best ever."
Bradshaw said that Team English will have two practices
before the competition starts. Teams at the competition will
represent Canada, Mexico, Italy, Virgin Islands, Panama and
the United States, among others, in addition to England.
In their first year together, the English team finished fourth in
Miami three years ago. They had to settle for two seventh
place finishes in the Bahamas and the Dominican Republic
the previous two years.
This year the team is 32 players strong, which Bradshaw
believes will help tremendously.
"We'll have a minimum of three games a day, so it's exciting
that we have so many players," said Bradshaw. "The heat is
always something to contend with, especially for teams from
a much cooler climate. It was 90 degrees in the Dominican
last year; in addition to heat exhaustion we had to deal with
some severe cases of sunburn.
"We're aiming for at least a fourth place finish, maybe even
better."
Bradshaw said that his team is picked from all over England,
and that they had to qualify in Portsmouth (England) last
June to earn the right to represent their country.
After competing against between 12 and 14 other countries,
the event will conclude with an open round-robin tournament
against teams from all over the United States. All games are
being played at Barry University in Miami.
NFL Youth Flag Football registrations will be held outside the
Higgins Middle School cafeteria on March 12 and 19 from 9
a.m. to 12 noon. Bradshaw said all games will be held at the
Middle School lower fields, with children ages 6-8 playing on
Tuesdays, children ages 9-11 on Wednesdays, and children
ages 12-14 on Thursdays from 3-5 p.m. The co-ed league
runs from April 5 through May 31
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