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WҪY9This year s season was a drastic turnaround from last year s winless campaign. Early in the season we lost three close games in a row to fall to a 1-4 record. Rather than throw in the towel, our kids rallied after those three heartbreaking losses and knocked off an undefeated team. We finished 4-5 and won our last game. <br>Our team knows that we could have easily been in the playoff hunt. Yet perhaps the greatest tribute to this group of kids is that they didn t dwell on what could have been or what we should have done, they focused on winning today.<br>Coach Shepard, your seminar made a profound impact on our players and coaches. It was the best financial investment our football program has ever made. We already have captains for next year s team. One of them came up with the idea to have stickers for our helmets with the number eleven. The kids all want to do this. Another captain wants to paint the number 11 in the weight room and the locker room. Our team will be committed to touch it as they pass. Thanks for helping us develop our vision for greatness!<br> <br>The coach sent me their football program book. Some of the players wrote a thank you note. I would like to share one of these from one of last season s captains: <br> Dr. Shepard, you influenced our team to the fullest, and I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. Keep spreading your light. <br>In my quiet moments as I reflect on this experience, it is difficult to hold back the tears. I am so very thankful for coaches and kids like the players at this high school. May God bless our great country and help us all to Be An Eleven a little more often.<br>o take all that extra energy they had when they were off the football field and focus it on the field, an to work together to be the best team."<br>No matter how good a training program may be, inuries are a fact of life in football, and as such Madden believes, it's important for him to be involved as the third component in injury rehabilitation. "First you have your doctors, then your trainer, then you have me," says Madden. "All of us, including the athlete, communicate with each other on a daily basis. We keep our athletes informed about why we choose a particular course of action so they understand what's going on in their rehabilitation, and it works to keep them positive. Say a player has an injured right shoulder; we can still work on his left arm and on his legs so he doesn't get too far behind."<br>Another key in Coach Madden's strategy to getting the players back fast is Dr. Keith Pyne, who flies in from his chiropractic offices in Dallas to work on the Longhorns. Pyne is considered one of the foremost practitioners of Active Release Treatment Techniques"!, a hands-on method for the rehabilitation of soft-tissue mechanics. "Dr. Pyne does a great job for us," says Madden. "He has a great knowledge of physical imbalances, and he works down the whole chain of the body to figure out exactly what is wrong. For example, if a player appears to have a hamstring injury, it may actually be a lower back problem. We've been very fortunate to have Dr. Pyne in our program."<br><br>The NFL Connection<br><br>As part of the football coaching staff, Madden also plays a key role in recruiting and takes his role seriously. "You have to let these athletes understand what they