Football
Second Session of Buckeye Camp Begins
By John Porentas

OSU offensive line coach and offensive coordinator Jim Bollman (seated with his back to the camera) helps check in campers.
Photo by John Porentas

Fifteen hundred campers reported today for the second session of OSU's all-position youth camp.

This is the second of two sessions of the all-position camp. Session one ended yesterday, and it too attracted around 1,500 campers, making this one of the largest camps that OSU has every run.

While there are certainly many participants on hand that look the part of football players, the camp is not intended as a camp simply for elite players or players intent on showing their wares for college coaches. The focus of camp is on teaching players of all sizes, skill levels and ages.

(left to right) "Wojo" Wojciechowski, Reed Susor, Cody Smith and Derek Allgier came all the way from the Toledo area to participate in the OSU summer camp.
Photo By John Porentas

Participants of all sizes arrived wearing tee-shirts identifying them as coming from various parts of not only Ohio, but other states as well. The coaches for the camp were of varied backgrounds as well, ranging from mid-major Division I college coaches from schools like Toledo, Akron, and Miami of Ohio, to high school coaches not only from Ohio, but from out of state as well.

Some of the high school coaches were familiar faces, including Rich Rios from Toledo Rogers, Tedd Ginn Sr. from Cleveland Glennville and Sonny Spielman, formerly a high school coach in Ohio who now coaches both football and track in Florida, and yes, Sonny did have a couple of sons of his own who were pretty fair football players, one of whom played for Ohio State and later in the NFL and may have actually heard of.

We'll have more from the youth camp tomorrow.


The lines were long, but over 1,500 campers were checked in in about an hour's time at the OSU summer camp. Photo by John Porentas	Current Buckeye Tyler Everett (center) was on hand at camp check-in to help his two brothers Brandon Martin (left) and Brice Everett (right) check into the OSU summer camp. Photo by John Porentas

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