Spring camp kicks off

Prospective players for next season at Carleton High School are taking “Football 101.”

The school's annual spring football camp kicked off on the warm Thursday afternoon at Prime Minister's Park. The first order of business heading into camp is recruitment, said Head Coach Rylan Michalchuk.

“The second thing is just to dust off some of the cobwebs and get the kids running around with their pads and their helmets and throwing the football, catching the ball and smacking some people around.”

Michalckuk is also hoping to use the four sessions to identify players to build around solid veterans who are slated to form the nucleus on both sides of the ball for next year's senior squad.

“Players like James Thorpe and Jordan Gabriel-Cannon on the offensive side and on defence we have had Graham Pedersen out for three years. We have been building toward this year and so we are looking forward to it and we have some big expectations.”

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However the work doesn't end when the camp comes to a close. The players are expected to stay in shape over the summer and report back ready to play in the fall, said Michalchuk.

“During the past couple months we have been working with then at school to teach them the right technique in the different lifting exercises and what they can be doing for conditioning, for cardio purposes on their own time so they have an idea of what they can do. So our expectations are that they do that over the summer and they are ready to play when they come back in the fall.”

Camp sessions are slated for Friday as well as Monday and Tuesday of next week. The Carleton vs St. Mary clash in their annual P.A. senior football showdown is Oct. 9.

dwilson@rawlco.com