Fullerton Junior All American Bears

The Fullerton Junior All American Bears are members of the Orange County Junior All American Football Conference (OCJAAF). Comprised of twenty-nine (29) chapter (city) members throughout the Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside counties, OCJAAF is the largest youth football and cheerleading organization in the nation. The Fullerton Junior All American Bears are honored to contribute to OCJAAF's diversity, which makes the Orange County Junior All American Football Conference number one in competition. The Fullerton Junior All American Bears are proud to sponsor OCJAAF's core values of "family" and of "community" - the standards that keep OCJAAF and the Fullerton Junior All American Bears a leading youth football and cheerleading organization. Families come in many combinations and we celebrate the word of "family" as meaning: team, the Fullerton Junior All American Bears, community and the OCJAAF Conference. There is nothing stronger than the spirit in the word of family and you will see it and feel it within the Fullerton Junior All American Bears organization and our OCJAAF Conference.

The objective of the Fullerton Junior All American Bears program is to inspire youth, regardless of race, color, creed, or national origin; to practice the ideals of health, citizenship and character; to bring our youth closer together through the means of a common interest in sportsmanship, fair play and fellowship; to impart to the game elements of safety, sanity and intelligent supervision; and to keep the welfare of the player and/or cheerleader first, foremost and entirely free of adult lust for glory.

Friday, September 9, 2011

Pop Warner football coach arrested

Pop Warner football coach arrestedDecember 07, 2000

by Tariq Malik

HUNTINGTON BEACH -- A youth football coach has been stripped of his responsibilities after facing drunk-driving and willful child-endangerment charges in connection with a car accident he and three of his team members were in last week in route to a weekend competition in the town of Needles near the Arizona border.

Barrett Brown, a 35-year-old Pee Wee coach for the city's Pop Warner football chapter, was arrested by the California Highway Patrol after his 1995 Isuzu Rodeo overturned on a rural highway at 6:15 p.m. Friday, five miles outside the California city, authorities said.

Brown's attorney was unable to comment on the case Wednesday due to its preliminary nature.

A Cypress resident, Brown was carrying three boys between 11 and 12 years old destined for a postseason consolation game Saturday in Laughlin, Nev. None of the boys, nor Brown, were seriously hurt in the accident.

"The boys were all wearing their seat belts," said Officer Bill Haney, spokesman for the California Highway Patrol. "Oddly enough, Brown was the only person not wearing one."

Brown and the boys suffered bruises and scratches, and were treated at Needles Desert Communities Hospital and released that day.

Officials with the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said Brown was jailed over the weekend in lieu of $1,053 bail for drunk driving, and $100,000 on the willful child-endangerment charge.

San Bernardino Superior Court Judge Joseph R. Brisco, of the Needles office, dropped Brown's cruelty to children bail down to $15,000 in a Tuesday arraignment hearing, where the Cypress man pleaded not guilty to all charges, court officials said.

Brown posted bail Wednesday morning, and is due back to the Needles courtroom for a pretrial hearing Dec. 19.

San Bernardino County Deputy Dist. Atty. Mauri Braun said Brown faces a maximum of five years in jail if convicted, one for each of the child endangerment charges, as well as one year for causing injury while under the influence of alcohol, and another for having a blood-alcohol level above the state's cap of 0.08%.

"This is an abominable situation and our thoughts and concerns go out to boys and their families," said Steven Sherman, president of Huntington Beach Pop Warner. "It's amazing that no one was seriously hurt ... we were very lucky."

At least one of the boys, he added, slipped out of his seat belt and was thrown through the window of the sport utility vehicle after the glass had popped out.

For the past two years, Brown has coached football for boys age 12 years old and younger in the Pop Warner organization, and was representing the city chapter's six team leaders on the agency's board of directors before the accident.

"Obviously, he has been removed both as coach and as a representative," Sherman said, adding that all coaching positions in Pop Warner are voluntary, and until now, Brown has shown himself to be a fair and compassionate team leader.

Pop Warner officials said the city's chapter has zero tolerance for alcohol use, and Brown "broke every rule."

Brown's team was one of five city teams traveling to play in the Saturday football games. His three young passengers were not able to participate, though one was able to attend the competition to cheer teammates on, chapter officials said.
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