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NEW COACH, FAMILIAR FACE Los Fresnos CISD names alum, former assistant David Cantu as athletic director, head football coach by Kevin Narro | RSL
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After nearly two months, Los Fresnos has a new head man. Los Fresnos CISD approved Brownsville Veterans Memorial’s David Cantu as their new athletic director and head football coach. Cantu spent nine seasons as the athletic coordinator at Brownsville Veterans, going 61-33 as the Chargers head coach. “I had to think it over and talk about it with my family and my wife,” Cantu said when he first saw the job opening. “I did feel at peace when I applied
for it. Five years ago, I did not apply, I didn’t feel I had accomplished enough and, in my heart, I just was not ready. This time around, I felt ready and I knew there would be plenty of good applicants, so I just wanted to throw my name in.” Cantu replaces Patrick Brown, who was reassigned in early December after five seasons as Falcons head coach. In his five years, Brown guided the Falcons to three playoff appearances and two trips to the third round of the playoffs. There is plenty of history in Los Fresnos for Cantu as he will return
Courtesy Photo to his alma mater, where he began his coaching career at the junior high level and eventually served as an assistant for eight seasons in two separate stints between 2002 and 2009. After the 2009 season, Cantu spent two seasons at Brownsville Rivera
as a head coach before moving to Brownsville Veterans. Since the school first opened in 2010, Cantu has been the program’s only coach and has had plenty of success. Now, he’s eager to return to one of the Rio Grande Valley’s premier districts.
“Those types of games in 32-6A, the atmosphere is hard to explain,” Cantu said. “John Grisham couldn’t write a book on how amazing that feeling is. Those are strong and established programs. I’m just overjoyed to be able to be in the mix with the coaches there is great.”
By Tony Vindell
working on the sidewalk, following Bresson’s instruction. He said he wanted to give something back to the community and thanking the staff and teachers of one of the local school district schools that is the farthest from the main campus was a way of doing so. “I have been looking for something to recognize our educators,” Bresson said while waiting for the participants who were told to show up at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 27. “I found out about this on the Internet.” He was referring to the Chalk the Walk, a
campaign created in the late 1900s by the City of Iowa in which artists got together and painted inspirational messages on the sidewalk of that city’s downtown area. Bresson said giving something back to the community is of one of the goals of the church he opened in Los Fresnos in 2019. He said the Chalk the Walk event held outside Las Yescas school was to thank educators for the work they do and more so with today’s pandemic.
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Etzell and Karina Gonzalez and Chad Bresson painting and writing inspirational messages on a sidewalk at Las Yescas school. Photo by Tony Vindell.
The staff and students at Las Yescas Elementary School found a different looking sidewalk last Wednesday. Colorful messages left by members of the community adorned the concrete slab leading to the school main door. Each and every display was put there by students and parents who participated in a campaign called Chalk the Walk set up by Chad Bresson, pastor with The Table of Los Fresnos church. Nearly a dozen people showed up to the event and began
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