By Robert Griffin

Sports Writer

It was a warm Monday morning at Callaway High School, and the school’s practice field was engulfed in activity with the second Pete Wiggins Football Camp.

A crop of eager players were on hand for the first day of the three-day camp, braving scorching temperatures in order to tone their skills on the field.

As the sun beats down on the field, Wiggins and his staff of players and coaches go through a variety of different drills that cover almost all aspects of the game.

Wiggins said that his approach to the camp is to give the younger kids a strong start in the fundamentals of the game, and also an introduction into the Cavalier family.

“We just go through fundamentals and do a lot of throwing catching, and how to have good technique with tackling,” Wiggins said. “We try to show them how to get into a good stance and hopefully they will learn a lot in those three days and take it with them and get better down the road.”

While the camp is providing training for the younger group of Cavaliers, those who don the black and red for the squad now were enjoying a chance to be on the other side of the whistle for a change and helped lend their hands to the camp.

Golden Sutton, a defensive tackle for the team, said he loved being able to wear the whistle and that he embraces the chance to be able to help teach younger players.

“Being able to help out the kids is great,” Sutton said. “These are all our future Cavaliers and it’s great to be able to come out here and help them out and help them become better football players in the future.”

Cavalier Ricky Parks said that he likes being able to work at the camp because he likes being able to impart the ways of the Cavalier team and what makes them a family.

“I like being out here and helping the kids and helping them learn a lot,” Parks said. “Being able to help the future cavaliers and teaching them the cavalier way. The coaches instill in us the cavalier family and when its in you its in you, and helping out like this is part of it.”

Building relationships with the younger players is something the Wiggins said was one of the things that he loves most out of putting on the camp.

“I love having the players out here,” Wiggins said. “To see those guys establish relationships with young people and be leaders it means a lot to our coaching staff. I really think that it means a lot to the older kids that are out here working with them. It builds that relationship in our school that is just good for everybody.”