Fitzgerald High wraps up annual youth football camp

FITZGERALD, GA – With high school football just one month away, it was only right that our next stop on the camping trail was a youth football camp held at Fitzgerald High School.

“This is a day we look forward to a lot,” said Hurricanes head football coach Tucker Pruitt. “It’s a day for us to just come out here and give back to these young kids and teach them a little football, but mainly just have fun.”

The free camp saw roughly 40 kids from kindergarten through sixth grade working with Purple Hurricanes coaches and players on offensive and defensive drills: passing, catching, tackling, holding onto the football and ending with a two-hand touch game.

There were many potential canes at the camp this morning, but Pruitt says one of the most important parts of today was making sure his canes were involved in working with the youth.

“We’re a community,” Pruitt said. “When you think feeder program, you think your ninth grade team in your middle school, but really it goes as deep as this age right here and starting to kind of teach them some of the basics, but also just build relationships with them and start to get to k

now them and they get to know us and just really have a positive experience that hopefully will bring them back.”