Football: AYFL to Sponsor Viva Loudoun's Saturday's State Title Game Coverage

(Dec. 6, 2012) - Ashburn Youth Football League, the feeder system that has helped produce five straight state title football championship teams in Loudoun, has signed on to sponsor Viva Loudoun's coverage Saturday, Dec. 8 of Stone Bridge High School's VHSL Division 5 state title game at the University of Virginia at noon and Briar Woods High School's Division 4 state title game at Liberty University at 4:30 p.m.

Players from both Briar Woods and Stone Bridge graduated from the AYFL ranks to the Falcons and Bulldogs. Ashburn has brought home state titles every year since 2007: Stone Bridge (2007), Broad Run (2008, 2009) and Briar Woods (2010, 2011).

Viva Loudoun editor Dan Sousa will be on the road at both games, bringing online coverage via the @VivaLoudounLive twitter feed, which will be streamed across the VivaLoudoun.com homepage. In addition, Viva Loudoun will have photographers (Steven Holland at UVa and Joel Wolcott at Liberty) at both contests.

About AYFL: Ashburn Youth Football League is a 501c3 (not for profit) youth sports league created for the children of Ashburn, Virginia and the surrounding areas.The AYFL exists to promote youth football in the Ashburn area, and is intended to be an instructional league that places an emphasis on the sound development of players and fundamentals of football, and strives to be a league that will inspire our youth to develop life skills of sportsmanship, character and teamwork.

The AYFL started play in 2000, and has continued to evolve into one of the premier youth leagues in the state of Virginia. The organization is comprised of four football leagues, A (7th and 8th graders), B (5th and 6th graders), C (3rd and 4th graders) and D which contains kids ages 6 and 7 who participate in a tackle program that is a purely developmental league designed to teach the basics of tackle football and prepare the youth for the more competitive A, B and C leagues and beyond.