Three Rivers Youth Football

Three Rivers Youth Football is an organization devoted to the sole purpose of providing full-contact, tackle football for the children in grades 3-6 in Aspen, Basalt, Carbondale, Glenwood Springs, Newcastle, Silt, Rifle, and Parachute and all areas in between. Read more...

Mission

Teach the youngsters introductory and fundamental football skills in a fun and nurturing environment while maintaining age-appropriate and educationally/psychologically sound objectives of athletic participation.

Objectives

• Learn to join others and leave the protection of home and parents.
• Learn cooperation skills
• Know and learn about teams
• Begin to learn what function each participant performs in a team setting
• Learn how they can contribute to a team
• Learn to compete
• While realizing the winning is important, emphasize participating and trying rather than winning over losing
• Emphasize progress in learning skills
• Try to cultivate the desire to play more than one sport
• Learn appropriate techniques and methods of tackle football, including ability to tackle and block correctly.
• Learn a variety of offensive skills, including positions in the interior line as well as ‘skill’ positions of center, quarterback, receiver, and running back with the understanding that not every player can learn and/or play every positions due limitations created by time, numbers of participants, and coaching and not every player is going to be able to play the position he/she wants to play due to limitations created by numbers of participants and the constraints and nature of the game of football itself.

Statement of General Philosophy of Youth Sports

History of the League