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July 16, 2010

Baldwin County Youth Football Camp concludes tonight with scrimmage

Brent Martin CNHI

MILLEDGEVILLE — The first annual Baldwin County Youth Football Camp continued Thursday afternoon at the Rec. Department as coaches ran all the young football players, ages 9-12, through a myriad of running, blocking, tackling and technique drills.

The coaches, led by Tremaine Mosley, had all the boys broken into two groups for the camp, 9 and 10-year-olds and 11-and-12 year olds. The older group will even participate in a full scrimmage tonight around 7 p.m.

“We are going to have a little scrimmage for the older ones. They are a little more advanced. For the 9- and 10-year-olds we are going to do a punt, pass and kick competition for the first 30 to 45 minutes,” said Mosley. “After that we’ll  have a scrimmage game where they’ll blow it dead on the whistle.”

The local Baldwin County Youth Football league had one of its most successful seasons in history last year as several teams finished undefeated, and several All-Stars made the county proud by bringing home district titles.

“Last year we had a wonderful run. The 7 and 8, 9 and 10, and 11 and 12 year olds all played for the district championship. And two of those teams played for the state championship,” said Mosley.

One of the primary reasons for the camp was to get all the local youth football talent ready to compete on a championship level, and also get them properly conditioned for the game of football. And according to Mosley, repetition is everything.

“We have a lot of talent out here and we just want to get these kids exposed — so, we will be able to compete when we play in these All-Star tournaments and play these teams out of town. We won’t lose because we don’t know the basics and fundamentals. Like I was telling the guys the other day, you could be the best athlete on the field, if you don’t know the basics of the game you can do your team more harm than good,” he said.

Mosley also went on to describe how getting these young kids ready for football was also getting them ready for the game of life.

“It’s like the game of life, all it takes is one blunder and you can blow it. That’s why I came up with the camp. We want to get these kids ready before the season, and the more repetitions they get the more it will become second nature to them. It’s the only way they are going to learn,” he said. “It teaches them teamwork, hard work and leadership. You can be a leader out here on the field and go into your job and be a leader. You can go into college as a leader. Football demonstrates all of this perfectly. It provides the building blocks for life.”

Early registration is still going on for the upcoming season. For more information call the Rec. Department at (478) 445-0785. 

“Hopefully we can have some good numbers this year. We didn’t want to just get the numbers up, but wanted to have something for the kids to do. It’s easy to get sidetracked. They can come out here and see that somebody cares,” said Mosley. “I hope that we can reach each individual on each personal level. If you got some anger and aggression built up in your life you can come out here and let it out. We are here for the kids and we will listen to them. Some of these kids are like my own.”

Mosley also wanted to thank Rec. Department director Bill McNair and Football Association head Tracy Rollins for all of their support.

The Football Association camp also wouldn’t be possible without the help of several area coaches. Mosley wanted to also thank the following for all their dedication and hard work at the camp this week: Mite coaches (9-10): Mike Francis, Daryl Ingram, Rafael Wright, Tim Bradshaw, Christopher Hurst and Thomas Massey.

Midget coaches (11-12): Kenneth Thomas, DePetro Ingram, Keith Easley, John Williams and Kendall Smith.

Mosley also wanted to thank his equipment managers Dorian Trawick and Lutrail Mosley.

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