YOU’VE HEARD of soccer moms, and more recently, hockey moms. But Lisa Giles is a far more unusual species — a football mom so in love with the game and the kids who play it that she found her way to the sidelines as a coach.
Giles has been assistant for six years with the San Leandro Crusaders Pop Warner league, coaching boys age 8-10 at the junior pee-wee division (ages 8-10). She doesn’t just hand out halftime snacks, either. She runs drills, calls plays, dissects film and dishes out discipline with the best of her male comrades.
