 Youth Football Skills & Drills Camp
Special Day 2
 7.15.2006 Turtle
Bay Resort Scrimmage Field, Kahuku, HI--
UH coaches
Wes Suan and
Mouse Davis, players;
Colt Brennan (QB, preseason all-Western Athletic Conference
Team), Gerald Welch (former UH WR), and former UH Warrior
stand out
Darrick Branch came out to host the second of two
special camp days for the campers.
  The day started
with a blessing of rain, lots of it as camp got started at 4:00 pm.
I was not too happy about the rain thinking it could really
ruin this special day for the kids. But then I thought… this is a
football camp, the only thing that stops playing football would be
lighting or torrential flooding in which both was non-existent. So,
the coaches and campers carried on and actually the rain felt good
as it’s been so hot lately, helped cool everyone off.
 In the falling
rain coach Wes Suan introduced the hosts and coach Mouse Davis gave
an inspirational speech to the kids and by now everyone was really
soaked. After that, it was time for stretching. The kids formed a
big circle around Gerald Welch, Colt
Brennan and Darrick Branch who
led the campers
through a series of stretches while coaches Suan &
Davis helped out from the sides. About midway through stretching, I
noticed something; Mr. Sun
was starting to shine. Once he did with
full force, it never rained thereafter and turned out to be
beautiful day! Once the stretching was over, the kids broke up into
groups. All quarterbacks go with Colt, all receivers go with Gerald,
all
 defensive backs go with Darrick and all running backs go with
Coach Wes while coach Mouse managed the time. After several minutes
in each station, coach Mouse Davis yelled, “Switch!” All campers
rotated from the station/coach where they currently were to the next
one. This went on until all kids had a chance to visit and learn
from all coaches. They learned a little about how to carry the
football properly, catch high and low passes, run routes correctly,
throw correctly
and defend
properly.
A water break was
taken while camp assistants set up two 15X20 yard fields. The kids
were all called
up and broken into
4 teams of about 8 per team. The rules were given and the winning
team would receive a prize they were told. The first thing each team
 had
to do was come up with a unique team name then it was time to play
some two-hand touch football!
Team A played team
B while team C played team D. After about a 15 minute game, the
teams switched, A played D and C played B. The winning team was the
one who had the most points accumulated after two games. The games
were intense as it really brought out the competitive spirit in each
camper as well as the coaches. Once all the games were completed,
coach Mouse Davis called all the kids up and talk to them about how
important education was and that it should be as
 important as
playing football.
After coach Davis’
talk, an awards presentation took place, the top team coached by
Gerald Welch was awarded a UH visor for each team member. A most
valuable player award was also awarded to an outstanding individual
on each team, they were picked by each respective team coach. The
most valuable players were; Branden Galapia (coach Welch), Skye
Akina (coach Branch), Wesley Piena (coach Brennan) and Mano Kailikea
(coach Suan).
The last thing
for the campers was a personable photo and autograph session with
each coach which lasted about 40 minutes and at about 6:50 pm the
day ended.
View photos from
Special Camp Day 2 below.
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