By TENAJH SWEETING
tsweeting@tribunemedia.net
THE Bahamas Youth Flag Football League (BYFFL) hosted the spring football clinic on April 22 and 29. The clinic was opened to kids ages 6-17.
This year’s hosting of the event featured the largest number of participants ever registered with 180.
The programme was initially opened for only 150 participants due to limited space, however, after the influx of registrants, organisers allowed for more.
Jayson Clarke, programme director, talked about how he felt about the two-weekend flag football event.
“The clinic went exceptionally well. One of the highlights for me was that a lot of kids that competed in our high school tournament ventured to the clinic which means that there is a genuine interest in the sport itself,” Clarke said.
After hosting this year’s first high school flag football tournament at the beginning of April, the BYFFL looked to build off the kids’ excitement.
The clinic focused on skills such as quarterbacking, learning how to catch, how to run routes, learning how to be a defensive back, and how to increase speed in footwork.
The largest age group at this year’s event was the 12-15 division.
“It is by far the largest clinic that we have hosted personally so [I] am definitely happy about that because it definitely tells us that we are doing some things right in terms of getting the message out there about youth flag [football] and what we are doing,” Clarke added.
The programme director also noted that following their appearances at last month’s flag football high school tourney St John’s College and Kingsway Academy will be the first to receive their flag football equipment in two to three weeks. The event was geared towards raising funds to purchase the flag football equipment needed to integrate the new sport into the schools’ curriculum. The league will present the equipment as well as the winner’s trophy to Kingsway Academy after they were crowned the first over 14 champions. Additionally, the under 14 champions of St Augustine’s College will also receive a championship presentation in their honor.
BYFFL will look to continue their work on the field as their next event will be a flag football training camp that will include National Football League (NFL) players on June 24.
Additionally, for the entire month of July, persons can look forward to joining BYFFL’s summer camp which will be in conjunction with the Ministry of Youth, Sports, and Culture (MOYSC).
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