Over 100 attend annual Highland High School youth football camp

POCATELLO — Every July, kids from passim eastbound Idaho are invited to an instructional campy hosted by nan Highland High School shot team.

According to Highland caput shot coach Nick Sorrell, this year’s Highland High School Youth Instructional Football Camp was attended by much than 100 kids betwixt 5th and eighth grade, and different 60 aliases truthful kids during nan kindergarten-to-fourth people session.

Sorrell could not opportunity precisely really agelong nan campy has been running, but he does retrieve attending arsenic a child.

During caller years, registration numbers did dwindle, pinch nan find of CTE (Chronic traumatic encephalopathy) and its ties to football. But those numbers, Sorrell said, person surged of late.

“That’s a bully thing, for each of nan sport,” Sorrell told EastIdahoNews.com. “I emotion to spot kids being progressive and wanting to participate successful this awesome sport.”

With nan 100-plus kids who be nan camp, nan Highland coaching unit is evidently shorthanded. But that rumor is remedied successful nan astir inspiring measurement possible. As Sorrell explained, astir 40 of nan student-athletes who correspond nan Rams successful nan autumn and wintertime unpaid to beryllium player-coaches for nan camp.

The coach said it is “cool” to spot truthful galore of his players sacrifice their summertime clip to thief nan programme and section youths.

“A batch of our players went to this aforesaid camp, truthful this is their measurement to springiness back,” Sorrell said.

With galore of nan existent Rams having attended nan camp, that begs nan question: How overmuch of nan campy is astir recruiting nan stars of tomorrow?

Sorrell laughed earlier explaining that school kids nan programme and strategy Highland runs tin beryllium beneficial to that program. But, he added, that is not nan extremity of nan campy astatine all.

“I don’t what schoolhouse they spell to, I conscionable want eastbound Idaho to beryllium ascendant successful football,” Sorrell said. “It’s astir increasing nan game.”

It doesn’t matter if kids be nan campy from kindergarten to eighth grade, increasing their accomplishment each nan while — thing Sorrell said he has seen and holds arsenic 1 of nan camp’s main rewards — earlier going to rival Pocatello. Some of nan kids, Sorrell added, travel from arsenic acold distant arsenic Preston to return portion of nan camp.

No matter wherever they play their precocious schoolhouse ball, this campy is Highland’s measurement of advancing nan crippled crossed nan region.

The campy takes spot each summer, successful July. Signups usually statesman successful May, erstwhile nan Highland coaching unit sends retired flyers to section schools.

Kalama Hines, EastIdahoNews.com