{"id":295687,"date":"2026-06-04T11:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T11:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/295687\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T11:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T11:23:07","slug":"hall-miami-dade-county-flag-football-coach-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/295687\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall: Miami-Dade County Flag Football Coach of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Edison.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"The Miami Edison flag football team celebrates after winning their second consecutive state championship on Saturday at the Advent Health Training Center in Tampa, Fla.\" alt=\"The Miami Edison flag football team celebrates after winning their second consecutive state championship on Saturday at the Advent Health Training Center in Tampa, Fla.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        The Miami Edison flag football team celebrates after winning their second consecutive state championship on Saturday at the Advent Health Training Center in Tampa, Fla.<\/p>\n<p>            Courtesy of Edison<\/p>\n<p>Winning state championships was once just the dream of the Miami Edison flag football team.<\/p>\n<p>But over the past two seasons, the Red Raiders have made it a reality not once, but twice.<\/p>\n<p>This season, despite fielding a younger roster full of talented freshmen and sophomores, Edison made it back to the top and once again was one of the most dominant teams in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Under the tutelage of longtime coach Vince Hall, the Red Raiders repeated as state champions in Class 1A.<\/p>\n<p>And so, Hall is once again the Miami Herald\u2019s Miami-Dade County Flag Football Coach of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Hall has helped set a standard of winning at Edison for a decade as the Red Raiders made their seventh trip to the state final four since 2017.<\/p>\n<p>After winning their first state championship last season on a Hail Mary touchdown pass from senior Rakyia Louis to former receiver Poetry Auguste, the Red Raiders didn\u2019t need any dramatic moments to win the title this season.<\/p>\n<p>Behind Louis\u2019 on-field leadership and four touchdown passes, Edison routed Somerset Canyons 33-12 to claim the Class 1A title this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Raiders made history as the first Miami-Dade school to win back-to-back state championships.<\/p>\n<p>The victory capped a 19-1 season, which included another district championship along the way.<\/p>\n<p>Louis graduates as one of the most prolific passers in Miami-Dade County history, and Edison also loses two-way standout Malaysia David.<\/p>\n<p>But Hall will have the majority of his roster returning next season, setting the Red Raiders up for a run at a potential three-peat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing the first one to repeat is special,\u201d Hall said after the state final. \u201cWe let the girls know before the game that we had a chance to make history for Miami-Dade teams and maybe even beyond that, and they did it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/255586171\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1780572187_302_01HEADSHOT_ANDRE FERNANDEZ.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Andre C. Fernandez\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/255586171\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andre C. Fernandez<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Miami Herald<\/p>\n<p>            Andre Fernandez is the Deputy Sports Editor of the Miami Herald and has covered a wide variety of sports during his career including the Miami Marlins, Miami Heat, Miami Dolphins, University of Miami athletics, and high school sports.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Miami Edison flag football team celebrates after winning their second consecutive state championship on Saturday at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-295687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}