John Schultz was an avid football fan and a Yavapai Sheriff's Office detention officer. He died in a two-vehicle head-on collision on Highway 169 during a heavy rainstorm in August 2010, along with fellow officers Brian Callaghan of Prescott Valley and Jose Presas of Dewey. The officers were headed for their shift at the Yavapai County Jail in Camp Verde.

What better way to honor the memory of the fallen detention officers and simultaneously give back to the Prescott Valley community than to start a football team?, reasoned Schultz's widow, Carie.

The Arizona Outlaws professional indoor football team is the result. Team colors of black and yellow reflect John's favorite NFL team, the Pittsburgh Steelers. (Presas was a Dallas Cowboys' fan.)

"It's two-fold for me, really," Carie Schultz said. "The community rallied around me and it's a nice way to give back to the community that gave so much to me."



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