Special to Neighborhood Post
In many girl football organizations, winning a joining championship ends a team’s period on a high note. In Pop Warner football, it means usually the easiest segment of that team’s period is over.
Pop Warner is a national group in that teams vie for informal and national championships, actions that have practically turn approaching of 36-year-old Port St. Lucie Pirates head trainer Jeff Miret.
In 2008, the Port St. Lucie proprietor took the initial Pirates team ever to the Pop Warner Super Bowl in Orlando, heading the Pee Wee (9-to-11-year-old) patrol to a national third-place finish. In 2009, he guided the undefeated Junior Midget (10-13) team to a national pretension with wins over teams from Michigan and California.
Last year, his Midget (11-15) team moreover modernized to the national championship game, but mislaid in a 24-22 thriller to the Northeast Chargers from Maryland.
Miret’s stream Junior Pee Wee (8-10) team is 12-0 – and wasn’t even scored on until its 20-8 win in the southeast informal playoff diversion on Nov. 12.
“But it was roughly a comfort to at last give up points, since right away the kids aren’t considering about that streak,” he said. “I was an helper to head trainer Greg Cheyne for this team last year, and motionless to take it over when Greg changed up to trainer a Pee Wee team.”
If Miret’s Pirates better the moreover undefeated Flagler Falcons in the southeast informal semifinal, and then win the informal pretension in St. Cloud, they’ll be going back to Disney World once again next month.
Miret, who runs his own Sunshine Carpet Cleaning business, gives credit to helper coaches Terence O’Leary, Rob Krip, John Curd, Greg Watkins, Duane Robinson, Joe Correa, Mike Celidonio, Tony Brown and Ryan O’Neill, in addition to team mother Stephanie O’Neill.
“They’re may the most appropriate staff I’ve ever had,” he said. “They make my life easy.”
Don’t think the modest seventh-year Pop Warner trainer completely. He commissioned the single-and-double-wing formations from that quarterbacks Nicholas Celidonio and Michael Cheyne and running backs Cedrick Wilcox IV and Luis Gonzalez have run roughshod over opponents.
The Pirates’ burly objectionable linemen, parsimonious ends and receivers are Jalen Mitchell, Dan Vaughn, Julian Rivera, Zac Barsuglia, Jacob Dutton, Jerry Johnson, Mikey Faurot, T.J. Curd, Dylan Pfeiffer, Codee Keighley, Quwayne Brown, Riley O’Neill and D.J. Robinson.
And the defenders who’ve surrendered usually a touchdown all period are Dwight Toombs, Jahfari Harvey, Connor Slappey, Lance Bianchini, Rolando Linares, Austin Estes, Zachary Schandelmeier, Justin O’Leary, Maurice Green, Xavier Correa and Anthony Brown.
Miret and his wife, Jennifer, have two sons who attend John Carroll High School in Fort Pierce.
His spouse teaches at St. Anastasia Catholic School in Fort Pierce. “Our starting quarterback Nicky Celidonio is a of her students,” Miret said, “so she’s a of the greatest fans.”