In May, the Saxman decade of football in Sedona officially ends — and with it 10 years of service for a football team mother like no other.
“Once I’m done with this, I’m going to go back to my favorite hobby,” said Allison Saxman, who in May will end more than eight years as president of the Sedona Red Rock High School’s Scorpions Booster Club after the graduation of her youngest son, senior Zeke Saxman. “That is hunting dead people.”
Genealogy has been a hobby the last 25 years for the Saxman clan matriarch, who has nurtured Zeke and his older brothers, Zane and Zack, through the Scorpions football program via Red Rock Youth Football — back when SRRHS assistant football coaches Scott Gilbert, Tony Hauserman and John Bradshaw were keeping the league active in 2004.
“I’ve just always volunteered, all the way up,” she said. “I actually worked with Scott Gilbert as a Sedona cub scout master for four years.
“So, of course, Scott’s going to recruit from our pack, especially since there were 65 kids in it. Zeke, Mason [Bradshaw and] Kevin [Schweiss] were together since they were all tiger cubs together in the first grade.”
Saxman assumed the role of SRRHS football “team mom” full-time beginning in 2006 under first-year head coach Brian Batty, when first son Zack started on both offense and defense as a freshman.
For the full story, please see the Friday, Nov. 28, issue of the Sedona Red Rock News.
