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In the spring of 2020, Doug Caines was burned out and finished coaching football.

“The COVID season probably broke me,” he said.

He had been head coach at Dos Pueblos High since 2018. He had been head coach at Santa Barbara from 2012-14. He remained at Dos Pueblos as a media arts teacher and focused on his own kids.

Then, in 2023, he was approached about becoming the girls’ flag football coach in the first season of the sport. It changed his life.

“Honestly, I’ve never had this much fun coaching football,” he said. “Man is it fun. The girls are just coachable and want to play and most are other athletes first.”

That feeling of fun, players wanting to learn and parents watching t

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