Dave Canales Author

Dave Canales, author and American football coach who is the offensive passing game coordinator for the Seattle Seahawks of the NFL. Named to Seattle's coaching staff on February 4, 2010, Dave Canales entered the NFL after one season as USC's offensive administrative assistant in 2009. Canales enters his first season as the Seahawks offensive passing game coordinator after spending two years as the team's quarterbacks coach (2018-19) and three years as the wide receivers coach (2015-2017). In Canales' ten years with the Seahawks, he has played a variety of instrumental roles in helping the team to eight playoff appearances. He served as assistant quarterbacks coach for two years, during the Super Bowl XLVIII championship season and the 2014 NFC Championship season. He was the quality control/offense coach the previous three years working with wide receivers and quarterbacks (2010-2012). At USC in 2009, he was an assistant strength coach, video assistant and worked with quarterbacks, during a year that the Trojans won the Emerald Bowl. He came to USC from El Camino (Calif.) College, where he was the tight ends coach and special teams coordinator, coaching quarterbacks in his final season (2006-08). The Warriors football team won the California Community College State Championship in 2006 and won the Mission Conference twice during his tenure. It was during his time at El Camino College that Canales forged an invaluable relationship with Pete Carroll and the USC staff through working as a part-time coach at the annual Pete Carroll football camps. David and his wife, Lizzy, and four children, Ashby, Benjamin, Beatrice and Amaya live in the Seattle area. Lizzy Canales, author, speaker, High school and college athlete turned wife and mom to four amazing children. Lizzy has been teaching Crossfit for 9 years and inspiring others that they too can “get into shape” and have life-long functional strength and ability. She holds a Masters in Secondary Health Education, is passionate about nutrition, the mountains, nature and doing anything challenging that makes her better. Her and husband Dave Canales live in the Seattle area with their four children Ashby, Benjamin, Beatrice and Amaya. Tony Dungy, speaker, bestselling author of Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life. Dungy is a former professional American football safety, coach, and sports analyst who served as a head coach in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Indianapolis Colts. Dungy's teams became perennial postseason contenders under his leadership, missing playoffs only twice in Tampa Bay. He led the Colts to victory in Super Bowl XLI, making him the first black head coach to win the Super Bowl. Dungy began his head coaching tenure in 1996 with the Buccaneers, a franchise regarded as one of the league's worst. Through implementation of the Tampa 2 defensive scheme, Dungy brought new success to the Buccaneers, leading them to four playoff appearances in six seasons. He would be fired after the 2001–02 playoffs due to frequent postseason struggles, but is credited with constructing the team that won Super Bowl XXXVII the following year. After his departure from Tampa Bay, Dungy served as the Colts' head coach for seven seasons, qualifying for the playoffs in each. His greatest success occurred with the Colts' Super Bowl-winning season in 2006–07, the franchise's first in over three decades and the first since relocating to Indianapolis. He retired from coaching following the 2008 season. Since retiring, Dungy has served as an analyst on NBC's Football Night in America. He is also the national spokesman for the fatherhood program All Pro Dad and also devoted himself to lobbying for preventative heart screenings for children through the SafeBeat Initiative. Dungy was inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2016.