An 11th-hour coaching change isn’t generally what you want in a program, but it appears the Flathead flag football squad isn’t going away

Jess Hensley, a teacher at Edgerton, was highly interested in the sport when it hit Montana high schools in 2022. She was due to have her son, though, and the timing wasn’t right.

Now she’s coaching the Bravettes, but not in the longtime-assistant-moves-up sort of way. She got the call 4-5 days before practice was due to start.

“Instead, I just cannon-balled right in,” she said. “My two qualifications are that I’m into the business of human beings; I teach third graders.

“My second is I am a big football enthusiast. I get so fired up on Sundays for the Dallas Cowboys.”

Hensley quickly assembled a staff of three: Herself, defensive coordinator Carl H

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