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Ft. with 12 squat racks, 12 benches, 12 trap bars, 12 clean bars and a multitude of weight belts.&nbsp; Over 90 players lift before school from 6 a.m.-7:15 a.m. during all seasons.</P> <P>After the first year, the next six years saw consecutive playoff appearances.&nbsp; In 1993, the first BFS Trojan senior class made it to the semi-finals only to lose in overtime.&nbsp; The 1996 team saw no stars, just a cohesive group of athletes who believed intheir training, their coaches and themselves.&nbsp; There was a time when the players were mocked and taunted with the word, '14'; now the whole school, community and town finally understood the importance of a verbalized vision.&nbsp; BFS -- we couldn't have done it without you!&nbsp; Any Time, Any Place: and pigs really do fly in Yucca Valley!</P> <P><STRONG><EM>A Special congratulations to my good friend Mark Beckham in his miraculous 1996 C.I.F. Championship.&nbsp; There is no coach in America who cares more for his athletes or works harder than Mark.&nbsp; I would also like to thank Mark and the Yucca Valley Football team for inviting me to their celebration dinner at Mark's house.&nbsp; I feel truly honored to have been able to speak in front of this exceptional group of young athletes.</EM></STRONG></P> <P><STRONG><EM>-John Rowbotham:<BR>Yucca Valley's BFS Clinician</EM></STRONG></P>s to see themselves getting better.<BR><BR>How has your coaching staff and your school responded to the BFS program?<BR><BR>Most of my staff has either played for me or coached with me, going as far back as the early  80s. They ve known about BFS for a long time, and they re into all of it. And ourwhole school is involved with BFS - it s part of the curriculum.<BR><BR>How does your school implement the BFS program in the curriculum?<BR><BR>The coache teach the BFS program and they use the videos. It s like putting on a clnic, but you only have an hour. A clinic lasts eight hours, so it takes about eight class periods to teach everything and teach it correctly. They don t lift for about two weeks. The kids are so antsy after that they just can t wait to get going.<BR><BR><BR>How big is your weight room?<R><BR>We have two weight rooms-one is 40 x 70, and the other is 30 x 50.<BR><BR>Why do you have two weight rooms?<BR><BR>We needed more weightlifting classes because the kids wanted it. Having a class every day in one room wasn t enough, so the principal, the vice-principal and I made another weight room. We called BFS and bought four mor squat racks and five more bences, and platforms and dumbbells and a hip sled. We bought all of it just for the new room and now we get about 300 kids going through the program every day.<BR><BR>What has been the effect of the BFS program at Riverton High School in regard to