The Dolphins may not make much of a difference in the landscape of the 2019 NFL regular season, but they’re making all the difference in the South Florida community.
Just a week after the Dolphins Cancer Challenge raised nearly $4 million on their 9th annual ride/run, the Dolphins welcomed over eight hundred youth and high school coaches to Hard Rock Stadium to help promote safe coaching habits for local players with their fourth annual coaches clinic.
Miami’s efforts to provide constant leadership in the local community are easy to overlook — after all, this is a football team. But the Dolphins continue to inspire on the local level, courtesy of all associated. Dolphins Youth Programs Director RaShauna Hamilton expressed her gratitude to Miami leadership.
“We are committed to making the game healthier and safer for South Florida student-athletes, coaches and parents,” said Hamilton. “It is great to have the support, time and resources of our senior leadership in Stephen Ross, Tom Garfinkel, Chris Grier and Brian Flores with important events like this that help advance our mission.”
Coach Brian Flores was once again on-hand, as he is seemingly every time the Dolphins host a pubic event. Flores kicked off the event yesterday by relaying how much football helped him as a youth to the coaches in attendance.
“I talk about this as much as I can: football, growing up a poor kid in Brooklyn, New York, I would say football is the only thing that leveled the playing field for me…what I want to do is give you guys a round of applause for doing the things you do.”
The feeling should be mutual.
