2022 RAW Edmonton Summer Football Camp is ready to blast off!

RAW Sports is very excited to bring our one week football camp to Edmonton this year and for many years to come! Edmonton is one of the premier football cities in Canada, we are excited to add another brick to a thriving community.

About RAW Sports

At RAW, we passionately believe in using football as a vehicle to teach players the value of hard work, discipline, perseverance, teamwork, and other character building virtues that help players find success on the field and more importantly off the field in their future careers and relationships.

RAW Sports has provided qualitative football camps in Western Canada for the past 15 years including football camps in Calgary, Red Deer, Lethbridge, Kelowna, and now Edmonton!

About the upcoming Edmonton One Week Football Camp

The camp will be run by Jared West who has over 10 years of coaching football across Alberta and British Columbia with support from the Woodson brothers (RAW Owners &. CFL alumni). Our coaching staff will consist of current/former CFL players, USports players & coaches, as well as community coaches.

This camp will be held at the Emerald Hills Regional Park turf field which is one of the premier fields & facilities in the Edmonton area. This facility will help us provide our players with a second to none football camp experience.

Emerald Hills Regional Park Photo provided September 9, 2016 by Makloc (spotters box contractor)

Our Edmonton football camp will have players in ‘Shells’ equipment. At a ‘Shells’ camp, players wear a helmet, shoulder pads, and shorts, and the camp operates at a THUD contact level. This concept allow our players to receive almost all of the benefits of training in full pads, while minimizing their injury risk.

Our camp regimen will include: individual position training, general football skills development, competitive periods (1-on-1s, skelly, etc.), speed & agility training, chalk talk & film periods, a full combine (1st day only), and much more!

Throughout the camp, we will be using drones to capture footage of various drills and periods. This will allow us to provide players with high quality film periods each day where we will review different parts of the camp (1-on-1s, skelly, etc.) to help maximize players growth and improvement. All of the film will also be uploaded to hudl for players & parents to access. We have already implemented our drone footage system at our Calgary Youth Shells Spring Football Camp, check out some of the footage below:

Another tool we will be using at our RAW Edmonton Football Camp is the Zybek testing equipment which is used at the NFL Combine, CFL Combine, and the Olympic Training Center. Players will be tested in the following events:

40 Yard Dash
10 Yard Short Shuttle
Vertical Jump
Broad Jump

Standardized testing is an incredibly useful tool to measure an athlete’s growth over time, to compare how athletes stack up against their competition, and is also a tool that most University scouting departments look for in determining a players athletic profile. We strongly believe that players should attend as many combines as possible throughout their football careers, this will help prepare them for their most important combines in the future.

This year we will have football combines in 6 cities across BC and Alberta (Calgary, Lethbridge, Red Deer, Edmonton, Kelowna, and Abbotsford). We will be creating a free, sortable database on our website to display all of the results. We are modeling this database after the CFL Combine database (see image below). This will provide players and coaches with a standardized testing database that they can trust.

If you’re interested in joining us at the 2022 RAW Edmonton One Week Football Camp, please click here.

Our new registration process makes signing up for a camp of your choice easier than ever – even if you have multiple athletes who will be attending camps this summer. Less paperwork, and less time lost on day one means more time for football.

If you have questions about a RAW Sports camp this summer, or need any assistance with your registration, please Contact Us and we can help you as soon as possible.

Interested in financial assistance for youth sports? Learn more about support programs offered by Jump Start Canada and KidSport Canada.