Youth football camps sponsored by the High School

1.  We run a K-6, 7-8, and 9-12 camp the last week of July two weeks prior to the start of our Varsity practices
2.  Our K-6 camp runs Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday
3.  HS staff runs it but Youth guys are all welcome if you coach your kids get in for free the more the merrier...
4.  25 dollars a kid, all kids get a t-shirt and we have popsickles after every day and at the end of camp our tournament champions get 5 dollar gift cards to Mcdonalds
5.  Yep encourage all the HS kids to come help the more the merrier, they each have teams they coach at the camp.
6.  We run stations for the first hour of the camp we break the kids up by age group and each station teaches a different skill, Blocking, tackling, passing, route running/catching, pull drills, break drills, kicking, punting, snapping, and running are the skills we teach.
7.  The older kids become more specialized...

We end each day by breaking the kids in teams and play touch football, we organize a league that is played throughout the week, each varsity player has a team they come up with a nickname and play games that are all 6-8 minutes in length we then seed the teams in a tournament for the last day winner gets the McDonalds gift cards.  The popsicles at the end of each workout is a crowd favorite!  We generally have 110-120 boys at the camp and there is only about 150 boys in the district in those grades. 

1. July (dead week for HS)
2. 3 days (have gone 4 for the older elementary)
3.  Absolutely.  They observe/ help with drills.  We have a beer/ hot dog youth coaching clinic after.  Each position coach gives a quick talk about basic drills/ fundamentals for youth kids
4. We charge $10-15 per kid.  Enough to cover a T-shirt, insurance, the beer/ hot dog event, and a little something for the coaches for their time
5. We have players help lead drills.  Captains/ upper classmen mainly
6. We let 3rd/ 4th graders rotate through all positions.  We put the 5th/ 6th graders into positions we think they will have their success
7. We don't.  We just run a team camp.  I really like the idea of a lineman camp, QB camp, skills camp, etc.  Maybe take the 3 days and specialize each day as a different group?

1. When do you try to do them?
We do ours the first Monday and Tuesday after school is out for summer.

2. How many days/How long are you going?
We go 2 days from 9:00am-noon. During this time they will do fun agility drills, offense position stations (QB, RB, WR, OL and Extra Point kicking) Monday and then switch for Defense position stations (DL, LB, DB, Kickoff and Punting). We will do some kind of obstacle course every day and then finish with two hand tap footall. We have a punt-pass-and kick competition one of the days too.
*side note: The campers' favorite drill of all time is "Dizzy Field Goals". Depending on the age group is where they will kick from but anyway, just like the old put your head down and spin around a baseball bat X amount of times then try to swing & hit the ball, the kids will put their head down on the end of a baseball bat and spin around X amount of times then try to kick an extra point. It is hilarious and the kids can't get enough of it!

3. Do you invite the Youth coaches?
Yes I do invite them, and our junior high coaches. Obviously they don't get paid to coach the camp but I'll give them a t-shirt and they get to start knowing some of their kids.

4. What do you charge if anything?
If you pre-register it is $25.00 per kid. Walk up registration the day of is $30. We like to get pre-registers so we have an idea of how many shirts to order. For that $25/$30 dollars they receive:
-6 hours of instruction
-t shirt
- gatorade
-guest speakers both days (I try to get one of our successful alumni or if we have a star player to talk one of the days then I try to get a college coach to speak the other day.)
- 1 ticket to a home game

5. Do you have your players get involved?
Oh yes. They all wear their jerseys and they will run the position station drills. After I put together the practice plan for the day, I create small plans for each station with drills and coaching points. Our staff will meet with the kids before hand and go over the schedule and the position plans. Our seniors to be will be the "lead coach" at the station with the other guys assisting, coaching a kid. Our assistant coaches will be present at the station to observe and help as needed but we really try to emphasize to our players that these young kids look up to them and it makes their day interacting with you. They also will play on the teams with the campers when its time to play 2 hand touch football. Our players really get into it.

6. Are you teaching all positions to all kids at the camps? Yes every position plus punting, kickoff, and extra point

7. Do you specialize and put on different camps for different groups? For our annual Youth Football Camp, we open it to any kid entering 3rd through 8th grade. Then when camp gets going we break them into 5 groups based on age.

We also have a "Quarterback School" we start in January, once a week on Sunday nights for 5 weeks. This is also open to any kid entering 3rd through 11th grade. Alot of the young kids sign up because then they get to throw the ball around in the middle of winter! We break the participants in that camp by age. Our "White" group is 3rd-6th graders and we try to keep it fun and not over coach it. Our "Blue" group are the kids who play QB in junior high or in our high school program. With them there is much more of a focus on skill development even though we still try to make it enjoyable for the kids. That camp costs $10 per camper but they receive: 10 hours of instruction, 1 dri-fit shirt, 1 t-shirt, and gatorade.

*We used vista print to create post card flyers for the camp then visted the elementary and middle school and gave one to every single boy in the school. We also had a few yard signs printed up with the important info for the youth camp then put them around town. Highly recommend doing both of those.