Hitting the gridiron

Shannon LeClair

Times Reporter

 

Football season is still a few months away, but kids are already gearing up and hitting the gridiron. The spring football camps began on May 2 and will run until the end of the month. The camps are held at the Strathmore High School field every weekday, weather dependent, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. 

“The numbers are quite good. The first day out was actually yesterday (May 2) I don’t know exactly how many guys. We’re just under 20 guys in the high school level,” said Carl Seafoot, President of the Strathmore Community Football Association, SCFA.  

“Between the three groups there are probably 60 to 70 people registered.”

Seafoot is the head coach of the high school team and said some of the bantam team are moving up, and joining the senior team, which is good for Seafoot and his coaches to work with them directly. 

“It’s kind of a learning curve for everybody right at the start,” said Seafoot. 

He said there is the possibility of a new team coming sometime in the future if the new interest continues to grow. 

“We do have a fair amount of interest at the upper age of an atom group, so that’s something we’ll have to think about,” said Seafoot.

He said the SCFA just started the peewee team a few years ago, which is for kids aged 10 to 12, and he has noticed 9-year-olds have shown some interest, and some are out for the spring camps. Seafoot said the SCFA is not actively looking to add a new team to its roster, but the possibility is always there. 

In the third week of August the SCFA will be hosting their fall football camps, and the season begins in September.