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Camp a learning experience for some, required
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A tune up as the football season looms |
The Tiger Football Camp ends with sunburns and a
better knowledge of the game |
By Gary Allen,
Newberg Graphic news editor
E-mail Gary at
gallen@eaglenewspapers.com
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Aspiring football players
and grizzled veterans alike took advantage of Tiger Football Camp
this week to introduce themselves to the sport or prepare for
upcoming seasons.
Despite 90-plus degree heat more than 60 youths ranging in ages
from 12 to 18 appeared at the camp at Mountain View Middle School.
Eric Carlson, head football coach at Newberg High School and the
director of the camp, put the players through their paces over the
course of four days.
He said his goal for those attending the camp was twofold,
depending on their age and experience:
“For the older guys, I tell them if they can just improve on one or
two things they know they need to improve” the camp will have been a
success, Carlson said. For the younger kids, he continued, the goal
was to try to teach them the fundamentals and begin establishing
through repetition the muscle memory they’ll need to be successful.
“It’s helping me with the fundamentals and making me more
(prepared) for the season,” said NHS senior David Marvin, a
first-year player who expects to play receiver on offense and
cornerback at NHS.
Carlson speculated the experience had been a valuable one for those
attending the camp. “It really has for the older guys,” he said.
Although the camp immediately precedes the Aug. 23 beginning of
practice for the NHS football squads, Carlson said the atmosphere is
pretty low key – some varsity players are there, some are not, and
it’s not required that NHS players attend.
“It’s really hit and miss who’s there,” he said.
However, Carlson said the entire backfield and some of the lineman
for the NHS varsity squad attended the camp.
Carlson concluded that despite the concentration on the basics
during the camp, the message the coaches most want players to go
home with is something different.
“It’s not fundamentals, it’s the idea of how (the players) fit into
the team and trying to know their place,” he said, adding that it is
a message carried over from NHS’ 2003 season. “It sounds kind of
hokey, but the more I do this the more I think that it is
important.” |
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From
Aug. 14,
2004, Newberg Graphic
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