On the heels of significant growth in the cheerleading, touch football and flag football programs, Ouellet will become the director, girls program, and oversee the first, multi-tiered, six-a-side girls’ tackle football program in Ottawa. While serving as a girls’ touch football coach last spring, Ouellet was constantly asked why the boys had tackle football teams, but not the girls. The Manitoba Girls’ Football Association staged its inaugural season in 2011 as the first full-contact football program in the world. The Panthers girls’ tackle football program, which will include the safe contact training concept to teach proper tackling and blocking, will be divided into U12, U15 and U19 divisions. As he spoke about the girls’ tackle football program, the mother of a daughter he coached in touch football stopped to listen to his words.

Source: National Post November 28, 2019 23:26 UTC