The program

Football, taught the way it should be taught.

Bexley Youth Football teaches boys in 3rd through 6th grade the fundamentals of tackle football. It’s a program that gets passed down: coaches on today’s sideline played in it as kids.

A Bexley ball carrier turns the corner in the sun, a teammate trailing and the chase closing behind him.

Straight from our parents meeting

What we’re building

We build football players. Kids come in learning to love the game; they leave knowing how to play it: blocking, tackling, and competing the right way, taught by coaches who played in this program themselves.

We ask a lot of the players. Attitude and effort are the two things nobody can take from you, so the takes-no-talent parts of the game get coached, and rewarded, as hard as the highlights. Every kid earns his moment.

We’re the start of the pipeline. Our job is to build the player and build the program, and send athletes up to the middle school and high school ready to win there. 27 moved up last year alone.

The motto

Family. Grit. Win.

FGW is new this year, and it’s bigger than us: the same pyramid now stands behind Bexley football at the youth, middle school, and high school levels: one program, from third grade to Friday nights. Family and grit are the base. Winning stands on top of them, not the other way around.

Family, Grit, Win: WIN at the peak with FAMILY and GRIT beneath it: how we treat ourselves, how we treat each other, how we practice, and how we prepare.
The FGW values, shared across Bexley football programs.

Three teams

Blue, Black, and White

Teams are grade-based. Player safety shapes the rules all season: the league weighs every player in and larger players play line positions, so kids compete against kids their own size.

Blue

6th grade

  • Mark Reiner, head coach
  • Mike Reggie
  • Scott Smith
  • Adam Licker
  • Jason Harr
  • Bill Kalush
  • Rob Heggestad
  • Justin Doyaga

Black

5th grade

  • Magnum Davis, head coach
  • Justin Morrow
  • Alonzo Burley
  • Mark Stevens
  • Simeon Daniels
  • Randy Sokol
  • Joe Meisse
  • Gene Gregory
  • Ryan Farley
  • Christian Rocker

White

Junior, 3rd & 4th grade

  • Matt Canterbury, head coach
  • Mike Porter
  • Drew Dersom
  • Matt Zimmer
  • Marc Solomon
  • Parker Endel
  • Doug Yeager
  • Vince Tassone
  • Mike Nolan

The question every parent asks

What you’re signing up for

White 3rd & 4th grade

Three practices a week: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.

Black & Blue 5th & 6th grade

Four days a week: Tuesday through Thursday practices, plus Bexley Strength on Mondays.

Games all teams

Six games, on Sundays. Season runs July 21–October 4; playoffs conclude October 18.

Touchdown TuesdayOffense
Warrior WednesdayDefense
Throwdown ThursdayGame plan

A third grader’s season and a sixth grader’s season are different commitments. That’s on purpose.

Who can play

Eligibility

Boys in 3rd through 6th grade. Placement is by grade, not age. The league applies age cutoffs that can move a player up a division, and our coaches will walk you through where your son fits.

You don’t have to live in Bexley. Neighboring communities, Eastmoor and others, are eligible through the league’s residency exemption, which we file for you. Email us and we’ll sort it out.

The calendar beyond the games

Traditions

  • “Lions on 3, Lions on me” - how every huddle ends
  • Bexley Day of Football - all three teams, one field, one day
  • The Moms vs. Sons flag game
  • The end-of-season awards cookout