BY RICK WRIGHT –
Mena High School will host the Mena Man Camp Thursday, July 21st and Friday, July 22nd.
In the past Riverview, out of Searcy, Murfreesboro and Mena held Man Camps. The coach at Riverview is one of Coach Tim Harper’s former assistants. “Murfreesboro’s coach is a good friend of Craig Bentley and Craig has known him forever,” said Harper. “You have to have three schools to make it legal. We added Augusta and another school two years ago here. It went real well.”
“Last year we rotated,” said Harper. “We went to Riverview and this year it was Murfreesboro’s turn and that’s why we went there Friday. It’s called our Man Camp. I’m doing two of them because there are some schools like Mansfield, where Bentley went, and we can get them now. So, we’re having Man Camp here this week on Thursday starting at 5:30 p.m. till nearly dark. We’ll eat, watch a movie of some sort, talk to them about doing things right, and building Christian character. We’ll get up at 7:30 a.m. Friday, and we will have Mena, Mansfield, Horatio, Hackett and possibly Poteau here for our Man Camp.”
“We will have times of 7-on-7 and times of padded team camp Thursday evening till dark and Friday morning from at 8:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m.” said Harper.
“Next week on Monday we will go to Mansfield. Wednesday we take the junior high to Ozark again. Then Thursday or Friday we will probably go to Mansfield for one day,” said Harper. “That will be it until practice starts on August 1st.”
“We’re doing things in the summer that we did after one or two weeks when we were playing,” says Harper. “Typically now by the time you finish your first week of practice in the fall, you could actually play a game. Not that you’d be really good, but that you wouldn’t have a lot of break downs.”
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