{"id":793483,"date":"2026-03-05T10:16:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T10:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/793483\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T10:16:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T10:16:39","slug":"ex-orange-lutheran-football-coach-rod-sherman-to-lead-cal-poly-slo-womens-flag-football-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/793483\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Orange Lutheran football coach Rod Sherman to lead Cal Poly SLO women\u2019s flag football \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/checkout.ocregister.com\/subscriptionpanel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former Orange Lutheran football coach Rod Sherman has landed a new coaching gig that closely aligns with one of his roles with the Lancers.<\/p>\n<p>Cal Poly SLO on Tuesday announced Sherman as the inaugural coach of its women\u2019s flag football team.<\/p>\n<p>At Orange Lutheran, Sherman assisted his wife Kristen with the girls flag football team while also leading the football program.<\/p>\n<p>Kristen Sherman, who built Orange Lutheran\u2019s girls flag program into a national power, will serve as an assistant women\u2019s flag football coach at Cal Poly SLO.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2026\/03\/02\/kristen-sherman-resigns-as-orange-lutheran-girls-flag-football-coach\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">She announced her resignation at Orange Lutheran on Monday<\/a>, about a month after her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2026\/02\/02\/tk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">husband\u2019s split with the football program after five seasons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rod Sherman posted a 33-29 record during his tenure, highlighted by a CIF-SS Division 2 title in first season in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>This past summer, Cal Poly SLO announce it would be starting a Division 1 women\u2019s flag football program. The Mustangs are expected to begin competing in the spring of 2028, Kristen Sherman said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe we\u2019re witnessing something remarkable in the space of women\u2019s flag football,\u201d Rod Sherman said during his introductory press conference Wednesday. \u201cIt is without a doubt the fastest growing sport in the country. It will be part of the Olympic movement in 2028 and I believe Cal Poly is on the front end that and it\u2019s going to impact young ladies in ways that we\u2019ve never seen before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am pleased to announce that Cal Poly is the first Division 1 school in the entire state of California to be offering a varsity flag football program and that\u2019s going to allow us to do an unbelievable job in recruiting California,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The NCAA has declared women\u2019s flag football as an emerging sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber.\u00a0Subscribe now Former Orange Lutheran football coach Rod&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[1443,37740,7,36633,54407,2682,3131,5764,9],"class_list":["post-793483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-california","tag-dan-albano","tag-football","tag-high-school-all-sports","tag-high-school-flag-football","tag-high-school-football","tag-high-school-sports","tag-orange-county","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116176052991251437","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}