June A Busy Month For CSC Athletic Camps

 Chadron State Athletics hosted a total of nine athletic camps and over 2000 athletes in the month of June.
 
A total of 60 different teams participated in three different team camps hosted by the Chadron State football program.
 
Last week, 29 teams were on campus for the six, eight and nine-man camp. A total of 464 athletes were registered.
 
Nebraska’s eight-man runner-up in the 2022 playoffs, Howells-Dodge, and Haxtun, a state semifinalist in Colorado, each have 32 players on their camp roster.
 
Nebraska, South Dakota, Colorado, Kansas and Wyoming were all represented by different teams.
 
The second of the three camps was the largest, hosting 647 athletes from 14 schools.
 
Natrona County, home to many CSC football alumni, had 116 athletes on the roster. Chadron and Scottsbluff High School also attended.
 
The first of the three was an 11-man camp on June 4-7 for smaller 11-man schools.
 
A total of 13 schools attended, led by Douglas, Wyoming with 57 total campers. Douglas is coached by Chadron State Athletic Hall of Famer, Jay Rhoades.
 
Sturgis High School, the alumna of CSC Head Football Coach Jay Long, had 52 players registered for the camp. Tyler Lewis, a linebacker for Chadron State in 2015-19, is the defensive coordinator for the Scoopers.
 
Men’s wrestling hosted 406 total athletes for a three-day camp last week, while women’s basketball had 77 athletes and 12 teams attend their camps and men’s basketball had 60 athletes.
 
Ponderosa High School in California made the jaunt to Chadron for the wrestling camp.
 
The CSC women’s golf team has a junior golf camp starting tomorrow. The camp is open for boys and girls in grades K-12.
 
There will be three half-day sessions in the morning from nine-noon and it runs through Thursday.
 
Chadron State’s volleyball and softball programs will hold their camps in the month of July.