{"id":409712,"date":"2026-08-18T11:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T11:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/409712\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T11:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T11:02:13","slug":"iwa-angels-fly-into-first-11-man-football-season-under-coach-charlton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/409712\/","title":{"rendered":"IWA Angels fly into first 11-man football season under coach Charlton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 The Incarnate Word Academy Angels football program has been very excited to kickoff their first full 11-man football season. The past three years they&#8217;ve been playing in 6-man football. Making that transition can be pretty challenging, but with new head coach Craig Charlton who came out of retirement the Angels are in good hands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well it&#8217;s exciting,&#8221; Charlton said. &#8220;If you think about this for the first time in school history we&#8217;re going to 11-man football with a very young team, so I&#8217;m excited about the possibility and the growth that&#8217;s going to happen over the next four years with this program and also with this team. The majority of this team is underclassmen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787050932_837_.jpeg\" alt=\"Incarnate Word Academy Angels football\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"855\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Larissa Liska<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s impressive to see how far these Angels have flown, from learning the basic fundamentals, to trying out 6-man football and now grasping schemes for 11-man plays. Coach Charlton has been impressed with how much the offense has picked up so far.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you&#8217;ve got Sawyer who&#8217;s our quarterback running the ball he&#8217;s a really good athlete and we can throw the ball downfield some,&#8221; Charlton said. &#8220;We&#8217;ve got a really good running back as well too. We&#8217;re a little young up front with our offensive line, but those guys are really starting to gel too&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787050932_288_.jpeg\" alt=\"Incarnate Word Academy junior quarterback Sawyer Brown\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"855\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Larissa Liska<\/p>\n<p>Angels junior quarterback Sawyer Brown began playing football his freshman year, and he&#8217;s come a long way as well as his teammates who also for the majority of their life had never picked up the sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s amazing. I&#8217;ve seen all of my friends grow in each of their positions and they&#8217;ve all gotten better,&#8221; Brown said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve gotten a lot more confident. At the beginning I was definitely really scared to touch the field and play, but now it&#8217;s become really fun actually.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787050932_423_.jpeg\" alt=\"Incarnate Word Academy assistant coach Trevor Long\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"855\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Larissa Liska<\/p>\n<p>IWA will compete in TAPPS Division V, which is open to teams not in a specific district who are looking to join.<\/p>\n<p>The Angels officially kick off their 11-man season with a short road trip to St. John Paul II on Friday, Aug. 21 at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787050933_555_.jpeg\" alt=\"IWA 2026 football schedule\"  width=\"1034\" height=\"1440\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Incarnate Word Academy<\/p>\n<p>        Screenshot<\/p>\n<p>TAPPS Division V, Non-Aligned Teams<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 The Incarnate Word Academy Angels football program has been very excited to kickoff their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[143123,143124,13723,94975,155,157,156,57325,300,94976,105547,143125,143126],"class_list":["post-409712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-11-man","tag-11-man-football","tag-13723","tag-angels","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-craig-charlton","tag-football","tag-incarnate-word-academy","tag-iwa","tag-keaton-havelka","tag-sawyer-brown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}