California Football Camps
Cal State Northridge - Los Angeles, California
California State University, Northridge is a vibrant, diverse university community of nearly 36,000 students and more than 4,000 faculty and staff, sited on a 356-acre campus in the heart of Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley. This summer it plays host to the Contact Football Camps.
Directing the camp is longtime Contact Football Camp instructor, Bill O'Boyle. Coach O'Boyle began his coaching career in 1988 at Dana College, and has since coached at St. Cloud State, Hastings University and prior to Whittier, the University of Redlands. Since 1993, O'Boyle has worked numerous summer football camps and NFL training camps. He was named the AFCA national assistant coach of the year in the NAIA in 2000.
Assisting coach O'Boyle is Walt Fletcher. For the last two years he has been the recruiting coordinator as he brings 10 years of coaching experience to the table.
Fletcher joined the Poet staff in 2006 after serving two years for Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference rival Occidental College in 2004 and 2005. While at Occidental he was the defensive line coach in '04 and moved to inside linebackers in '05. He helped the Tigers to back-to-back NCAA Division III Playoff appearances and mentored four different players to All-SCIAC honors.
Special team play and scrimmaging is also a big part of our programs. All phases of down-field coverages, wedge busting, tackling, blocking for punts, field goals, extra points, holding, kick-off, and kick receiving is covered. And after working hard all week, both individually and as a team, the final day 'live' scrimmage is the highlight of camp. Campers are divided into teams by age, weight, size and ability. Using light and dark jerseys, teams scrimmage as parents, friends and the entire camp staff cheers them on. Every camper plays at least one-half of our scrimmage.
HALF DAY MORNING SPECIALTY CLINIC - 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. (first morning) - $130
Quarterbacks - Personalized attention and instruction by our quarterback coaches. The focus of the instruction includes the following: leadership, passing techniques, drop-backs, quickness, footwork, speed and agility, ball handling, hand-offs, pitches and options, passing techniques, sprint-outs, bootlegs, rollouts and play-action, passing drills, grip, QB/center exchange, pivots, sprint-draw and play-action pass, progression for finding the open receiver, mental and physical preparation for playing QB, warm-up drills, reading coverages, secondary pressure, and audibles.
Wide Receivers - Personalized attention and instruction by our receiver coaches. The focus of the instruction includes the following: reading coverages, correct pass routes, working back to the ball, catching the ball at the highest point, catching the ball, following the ball to the hands, speed control, how to get open, spotting defensive coverages (man-to-man, zone and combinations), running drills, receiver drills, stance, release, patterns: out, post, hook, curl, post/corner, fade, in, fly, cross, etc.
HALF DAY MORNING SPECIALTY CLINIC - 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. (first morning) - $130, must sign up separately for this program!
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