CLEVELAND — A free youth football camp was held on the campus of Cleveland State University, featuring a number of Browns players, Buckeyes players and NFL players from Northeast Ohio to help coach up the kids participating.
The Varsity House Local Legends Camp, hosted by Cleveland native and former Notre Dame cornerback Shaun Crawford featured guest speakers, including Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb and Browns legend Bernie Kosar.
A skills portion of the camp was led by instructors, including Browns kicker Cade York, running back Demetric Felton and offensive tackle Tyrone Wheatley Jr.
"If I'm in this area and there’s a camp going on, of course, I’m going to show up. To be able to spread a positive message to kids and be out here and just show the kids they might look up to are also just normal people, and you can come talk to them. You can have fun with them, so it’s pretty cool," York said.
Additional instructors included Cleveland native and Saints linebacker Andrew Dowell, as well as former Buckeye and NFL cornerback Doran Grant, a native of Akron.
The event, held at Krenzler Field, quickly reached its registration capacity, offering the free camp to numerous boys and girls in second through eighth grade who signed up to participate on Saturday.
While this year reached capacity, in its inaugural year, The Varsity House Local Legends Camp plans to continue the free camp in years to come, allowing more youth in Northeast Ohio to participate.
"We want it to be a camp that is free for the community. We wanted to get East Siders, South Siders, West Siders, North, everyone involved, so we picked a central location at Cleveland State," Crawford said. "That’s just our biggest thing is we want to involve the community in the best way possible. We did have to limit the registrations, but that leaves room for doing more in the future."
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