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NEWS | Jan. 12, 2009

Flag football team to national championship tourney

By Thomas Warner 12th Flying Training Wing Public Affairs

Randolph Air Force Base has sent its sponsored flag football team to participate in the United States Flag Touch League's national championship tournament this weekend. 

The Bravehearts placed fifth in the state championship tournament and will be playing among a field of 230 teams at Kissimmee, Fla., when the tournament begins today. 

"We are a B bracket team and there will be four brackets (A,B,C and D) at the tournament," said Winsome Culley, Bravehearts head coach. "We've had a lot of scrimmages since we played in the state tournament. We've tried to prepare ourselves for this national tournament." 

The actual brackets for the event in Florida had not been released at press time, but a round-robin format will be used and losses in the early rounds will drop teams to lower brackets. 

"We are currently the No. 20-ranked "B" division team in the state," said Culley. "We set up a scrimmage earlier this week at Grater Field against the No. 14-ranked team in the "A" division, the San Antonio Stars. We wanted to see how we'd fare against one of the better teams in our area because there will be a lot of great flag football teams down there at the national championship tournament." 

The Bravehearts have won numerous trophies over the past two years, using a lineup of veteran players familiar with one another. That is likely to change this spring, when the Randolph team will need a virtual makeover due to PCSs and deployments of many of the players. 

"We'll be breaking up sort of like the Jackson 5," said Culley. "This is our last hurrah."