FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                           

For more information, contact:

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Sheila Champlin – (901) 448-4957, schampli@uthsc.edu or

Dena Owens – (901) 448-4072, dowens10@uthsc.edu

 

 

NFL-Sponsored Offense-Defense Camp to Take Place at

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center

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Memphis, Tenn. (May 23, 2011) -- The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will host an Offense-Defense (O-D) camp which will take place on June 12-15.  Organized by the National Football League (NFL), the camp is geared towards high school students and youth ages 7 to 14.   For high school students, the focus will be on upper thump tempos, college placement, video training, player-ranking system, and position-specific evaluation. Younger participants will focus on full contact, superior instruction, video feedback, adult supervision and technical evaluation. 

Offense-Defense camps have the most college scout representation of any football camps in the world.  These camps use actual NFL coaches and players as coaching staff.   In fact, O-D events have employed 30 of the current 32 NFL head coaches as coaches for the camps.

“It is a wonderful opportunity for both the campus and community to have O-D football come to Memphis,” says Frank Harrison, director of Campus Recreation at UTHSC.   “With a track record of proven performance and placement for high school students, NFL coaches and players giving instruction; and the national exposure for the campers, this is truly an experience that can benefit the entire community. ”

Participating campers will be placed in a group with others according to age, size, experience and personality (aggressiveness).  Resident NFL and college coaches will lead the campers through instruction of basic techniques and fundamental skills during progressive contact sessions.   As the week advances, controlled contact and age-specific scrimmages are introduced, culminating in a full-contact "Super Bowl" at the end of the camp. Past participants include Ray Lewis of the Baltimore Ravens, Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson of the Cincinnati Bengals, and newcomer Cam Newton of the Carolina Panthers. For more information, call Milow Weems at (843)-903-1888 or visit http://www.o-d.com/camps/locations/Memphis .

 

Those who wish to participate in the camp have options of  joining in day, extended day or overnight camps with fees of, $499, $695, and $795, respectively. Group rates at discounted prices are also available.

The Offense-Defense Camps are the largest full-contact youth football camps in the country.  For the last 42 years, the O-D camp has been committed to providing youth football players with the ultimate instructional football camp. In addition to the fundamentally sound football instruction campers receive at Offense-Defense, the initiative  provides campers with skills needed to succeed in life.  Offense-Defense provides an environment that fosters such skills as teamwork, discipline, responsibility, respect, family values, and hard work.  For more information, visit www.o-d.com.

As the flagship statewide academic health system, the mission of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center is to bring the benefits of the health sciences to the achievement and maintenance of human health, with a focus on the citizens of Tennessee and the region, by pursuing an integrated program of education, research, clinical care, and public service.  In 2011, UT Health Science Center celebrates its centennial: 100 years advancing the future of health care.  Offering a broad range of postgraduate training opportunities, the main UTHSC campus is located in Memphis and includes six colleges: Allied Health Sciences, Dentistry, Graduate Health Sciences, Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy.  The UTHSC campus in Knoxville includes a College of Medicine, College of Pharmacy, and an Allied Health Sciences unit.  In addition, the UTHSC Chattanooga campus includes a College of Medicine and an Allied Health Sciences unit.  Since its founding in 1911, UTHSC has educated and trained more than 53,000 health care professionals on campuses and in health care facilities across the state.  For more information, visit www.uthsc.edu.

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