Flames take advantage of football camp
MARBLE FALLS — Faith Academy football coach Russ Roberts expected 10 players at his football camp.
Instead, 21 athletes attended.
“I’m thrilled with the turnout, and the kids are working hard,” he said. “We’re having a good time. The young men are learning to learn about football, to know about football, to enjoy the game and mostly the camaraderie and the fact that we learn to be teammates and play together.”
The coach was pleased with the skill level, noting several players already knew quite a bit about what Roberts and assistant coach and athletic director John Berkman were teaching.
“And a lot of it they will forget,” he said. “But when they get out for their seventh-grade football team or their eighth-grade football team or some of them will actually be freshmen this year, it’ll ring a bell, it’ll be true and they’ll understand it and they’ll pick up on it much faster.”
Four incoming freshmen, who can play on the varsity in 2012, participated in the camp.
“They’re all good, and they’re all going to make a contribution,” Roberts said. “It’s not crucial, but it sure is helpful. We’d like to see them, we’d like them to show us what are their strengths, what are their weaknesses, what things can they do best, and then they get used to me and how we work with them and how we adjust to them.”