Notre Dame’s Flunder named bantam football coach of the year

Justin Flunder of the Notre Dame Jr. Cougars has been named Football Alberta’s Bantam Coach of the Year.

Flunder has had a brief but very successful run at the minor level in Red Deer.  As the Red Deer Steelers Pee-Wee Coach in 2015 he led the team to an undefeated season.  In 2016, he moved up to the bantam level with Notre Dame and went 1-6 before guiding them to a league championship in 2017.

The Cougars went on to defeat the Millwoods Grizzlies 56-21 in the Provincial Tier II Semi-Final then win a thriller over the Parkside Pythons 20-12 the next week to claim the first ever Provincial Tier II Championship won by a team outside Edmonton or Calgary.