READING, Pa. - The Albright Football team hosted it's 3rd annual free youth football camp at Shirk Stadium. Over 50 youth from the Reading, Pa. and surrounding area participated in this years camp. As part of their continuing community service efforts, the Albright College football team developed, organized, and coached the camp through its entirety. The participants received a free t-shirt and lunch following the camp. Every aspect within the game of football was individually coached by the Albright College football team.
Camp participants were engaged in quarterback fundamentals and mechanics, proper stance and techniques of offensive and defensive linemen, and even the correct way to kick a field goal!
The free youth camp was concluded with a Punt, Pass, and Kick competition in which each winner was given an award. Dan Duddy Sr., the Hall of Fame High School football coach from Monsignor Donovan High School (Toms River, NJ) presented a motivational and inspirational message on the “game of football and game of life” to the camp participants at the end of the day.
Following the conclusion of the free youth football camp, campers and parents were given the opportunity to watch the coaches test their abilities in the third annual linemen challenge.
The offensive line competed versus the defensive line in six 'strong man' type events that tested strength, speed, power, and agility.
Players competed in the joust, atlas logs, cart pull, farmers walk, tire flip, and obstacle course. In the joust, players stood on platforms and used agility bags to knock the opponent off.
The atlas logs was a timed event in which players stacked increasingly heavy logs onto platforms of ascending height. In the third event, coaches loaded onto a maintenance vehicle in which the performers had to pull 30 yards for time. Competitors gripped thirty pound plates and walked for distance in the farmers walk contest.
The most popular event of the day, the tire flip, was an event that demonstrated strength and endurance. Competitors flipped a 400 pound tire continuously for 20 yards. To end the competition the players took part in the obstacle course which consisted of agility drills, a sled drive, tire flip, hoop run, weave, and sprint to the finish.
The offense and defense went back and forth changing leads throughout the afternoon. In the end, the defense ran away in securing the victory in the obstacle course.
