When area youth sports teams needed to raise money, the players’ moms and supporters stepped up — and, for the first time in their lives, stepped between the hash marks.
The Mount Vernon-based Pitbull Warriors, a football team made up of 17 local women from their late teens to their 40s, wrapped up their three-game season in June with a 2-1 record, a trophy and several thousand dollars raised for athletes.
The team was started as a fundraising venture for Mount Vernon Youth Football and the Mount Vernon Pitbull Wrestling Club. Epi Sedano, a coach in both programs, suggested to some athletes’ moms that they join up with a Snohomish County-based league that plays flag football that includes some “incidental contact.”