HSN Interviews Twerp Football Coach Jeremy Boehm

Coach Boehm gave HSN a quick recap into his professional sports background, “I’ve worked closely with local athletes and their families in multiple sports including wrestling, baseball, martial arts, soccer, boxing, and football.  I played sports for 9 Years including football, boxing, martial arts, and track. While I no longer participate in any sports on a competitive level, I still train regularly to maintain personal well- being.

Thank you for HSN’s interest and continued support of our local sports programs.  Our community truly appreciates all that you do!

The Hopewell Youth Football & Cheer League is a 501C3 non- profit organization, created in the interest of providing recreational sports to local athletes from Kindergarten thru 6th grade. (Twerps: K-2, Termites: 3rd & 4th, Mitey Mites: 5th & 6th)  While we collaborate with the Junior High and Varsity level teams, we are an independent organization that is not affiliated with the school district.  This is an organization of volunteers that donate their time in the interest of providing a safe and positive environment for youth athletes of Hopewell Township.  We raise our own funds and conduct our own program based on established bylaws and democratic process.  However, we collaborate with the varsity staff in an attempt to best prepare our young guys for the next level.  This is a “feeder program” and our youth athletes are anticipated to be the varsity players of the future.  Any play structure, language, technique that can be applied at the lower level will make for an easier transition to the upper level.

“I got involved with the HYFL program in 2022 when my youngest son, Kellen decided to play.  I’ve been involved with coaching and training different sports with all 3 of my sons over the past 10 years.  I’ve enjoyed them all, but Football definitely has a special place in my heart.  I remember all of the great coaches that I had as a kid and love that I get the opportunity to be that guy to someone else!  I truly feel that youth sports are essential to developing invaluable life skills like; discipline, hard work, resilience, team work, pride, and humility.  Not to mention the excitement of competition!  Coaches often remark that on game day, those old butterflies come back and you feel like you’re about to play again!” – Said Coach Boehm

As a small town with a declining population most recreational youth sport programs struggle with enrollment, Coach Boehm explained that Youth Football is not immune to this either, “Hopewell Football has had its struggles over the years with getting the number of participants that is typically required to have a winning season.  Different sports all compete for the participation of our local athletes, and unfortunately football isn’t the first choice for a lot of families. However, last year 2 of our 3 teams made it to the playoffs, so we’re doing something right!  We hope to build enrollment by increasing awareness of our program in the community. A lot of folks are surprised to know that our coaches are enrolled in national courses to ensure a quality program of safe-play, concussion awareness, and sound fundamentals.  This season we have 18 Twerps, 24 Termites, and 33 Mitey Mites.  I would love to see enrollment in the 30’s at all levels to match the numbers of our most competitive opponents.”

Our 2024 Twerps are a special group, filled with awesome young guys just starting their journey into this sport.  There’s a great mix of talent and personality on this team.  We’re taking on New Brighton this weekend and I’m really excited to put our hard work into action!