BY KRISTI REED
The Mill Creek Hawks finished their off-season work this past weekend with a trip to West Georgia College for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) team football camp.
30 days and counting...The Hawks wrapped up their summer conditioning program last Thursday. Over the weekend, the team traveled to Carrollton for a three day football camp. The Hawks’ first day of fall practice is this Friday.
Hawks travel to West Georgia for FCA camp
This is the first year the Hawks have attended the FCA camp. Mill Creek head coach Shannon Jarvis said he selected the camp to give his players the opportunity to come together as a team.
“The main reason we looked at this camp is because it is a team camp,” he said. “All of our linemen, all of our backs and receivers are together at this camp. One of the priorities of this camp is to take our kids off as a team and build team unity and camaraderie.”
Mill Creek sent 85 players and 15 coaches to the three-day camp – more than any other team.
Jarvis said the camp will catapult the team into fall practices which begin this Friday.
With the school year starting on August 11, coaches have little time to work with players prior to the start of football season.
“The days of traditional two-a-days are over,” Jarvis said. Years ago, coaches could take a team to camp and then follow it with several weeks of two or even three-a-day practices, Jarvis said. Those weeks of practice prior to the start of school allowed teams to build unity, he explained.
The FCA camp gave Jarvis and his players the opportunity to spend time together and focus on the upcoming season.
The camp included a 7-on-7 team passing camp, lineman camp and team assemblies. The camp also included time for coaches to work with their teams in a non-competitive environment.
“If a team runs a play against us and we want to see it again so we can coach our kids, we just tell them to re-run the play and they’ll do it,” Jarvis said. “It’s not just a competitive, cutthroat situation. It is for the kids so that you can coach them and make improvements and corrections on the field.”
With summer workouts and camps over, the Hawks will now get down to serious business. Thursday, the Hawks issue equipment to the players. On Friday, the team begins practice in helmets and shoulder pads. Next week the team goes to full pads and begins two-a-day practices. Once school starts the following Monday, the Hawks will have just two weeks to prepare for a pre-season scrimmage against Parkview.
The season and home opener will be one week later, August 29, against the Dacula Falcons.
“The main reason we looked at this camp is because it is a team camp,” he said. “All of our linemen, all of our backs and receivers are together at this camp. One of the priorities of this camp is to take our kids off as a team and build team unity and camaraderie.”
Mill Creek sent 85 players and 15 coaches to the three-day camp – more than any other team.
Jarvis said the camp will catapult the team into fall practices which begin this Friday.
With the school year starting on August 11, coaches have little time to work with players prior to the start of football season.
“The days of traditional two-a-days are over,” Jarvis said. Years ago, coaches could take a team to camp and then follow it with several weeks of two or even three-a-day practices, Jarvis said. Those weeks of practice prior to the start of school allowed teams to build unity, he explained.
The FCA camp gave Jarvis and his players the opportunity to spend time together and focus on the upcoming season.
The camp included a 7-on-7 team passing camp, lineman camp and team assemblies. The camp also included time for coaches to work with their teams in a non-competitive environment.
“If a team runs a play against us and we want to see it again so we can coach our kids, we just tell them to re-run the play and they’ll do it,” Jarvis said. “It’s not just a competitive, cutthroat situation. It is for the kids so that you can coach them and make improvements and corrections on the field.”
With summer workouts and camps over, the Hawks will now get down to serious business. Thursday, the Hawks issue equipment to the players. On Friday, the team begins practice in helmets and shoulder pads. Next week the team goes to full pads and begins two-a-day practices. Once school starts the following Monday, the Hawks will have just two weeks to prepare for a pre-season scrimmage against Parkview.
The season and home opener will be one week later, August 29, against the Dacula Falcons.
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