Cori Metzgar, Director of Sports Performance at Western Oregon University and host of the Juneau Football and Sports Performance Camp, gives Ariana Connally encouragement lifting weights at the Thunder Mountain High School last July. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire File)

Cori Metzgar, Director of Sports Performance at Western Oregon University and host of the Juneau Football and Sports Performance Camp, gives Ariana Connally encouragement lifting weights at the Thunder Mountain High School last July. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire File)

Football, strength camps returning to Juneau

  • By Nolin Ainsworth Juneau Empire
  • Wednesday, June 20, 2018 8:27pm
  • Sports

Two sports camps are returning to the capital city next month.

The Juneau Football Skills Camp and Juneau Sports Performance Camp will run for the second straight year at Thunder Mountain High School. The camps will be July 9-12.

According to camp director Cori Metzgar, the sports performance director at Western Oregon University, the camps attracted a total of approximately 90 campers last year. This year, instead of grouping the football camp into the sports performance one, each camp will stand on their own.

“The main thing will just be we’ll specialize a little bit more so it’s not so broad,” Metzgar said. “Now it will be specific to football in the morning and then all other sports in the afternoon.”

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The sports performance training sessions won’t be tailored to any one sport in particular but rather apply to all sports besides football.

The camp is bringing up three additional coaches — including two extra sports performance coaches — to help out.

“I was completely shocked at the amount of kids that we got for the sports performance and how excited they were about it. It was a blast,” Metzgar said. “I left at the end of that week and I was absolutely exhausted. It was so much fun — the energy was great, the excitement was great, the kids loved it, it seemed like.”

To register for the camps, go to cor1athletics.com. Camp staff intends to donate a portion of the camp proceeds to the City and Borough of Juneau Parks and Recreation Department.

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