500 lucky kids train at Rockford Park District football camp

Chicago Bears linebacker Tremaine Edmunds and the Bears' first female assistant coach, Jennifer King, compete at Rockford on Saturday, hosted by the Rockford Park District and sponsored by several organizations, including the Fred VanVleet Family Foundation.・I was in the city to participate in a football training camp.

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“None of this could have happened without our great sponsors and all the local coaches who help with everything involved with soccer camp,” said Lamont Jones, general manager of youth sports. For the Rockford Park area. Mr. Jones is also in charge of the park district's flag football program. “This is a skills and training camp, but it also allows many young athletes to build relationships and meet Chicago Bears star players and great local coaches.”

500 children participated and thanks to our sponsors, they all attended the camp for free. In addition to Edmunds and King, dozens of area football coaches – both the men's tackle coach and the women's flag football coach – spoke to campers and offered advice throughout the morning and early afternoon. This year there was also a clinic dedicated to women's flag football. Women's flag football will begin as an IHSA-sanctioned sport this fall.