The first stop on the University of Hawaii football team’s 2014 camp circuit is on the Manoa campus on Wednesday.
The Big Man’s Camp for high school offensive and defensive linemen is the first of six Rainbow Warrior-coached camps this month.
There also will be all-skills camps at Maui High on June 10, Roosevelt High on June 12, Waiakea High on June 16 and Kapolei High on June 22. Those camps are for players who will be high school students this coming academic year.
A two-day youth camp for students in kindergarten through eighth grade will be on the Manoa campus on June 23 and 24.
Each camp is $20 per day, a fee that covers insurance, lunch and a T-shirt.
"We want to make it affordable for everyone to come," said UH special teams coordinator Chris Demarest, who serves as the camp director.
For the second year in a row, Demarest and head coach Norm Chow arranged off-campus camps throughout Oahu and in Hilo and on Maui.
"Bringing the camps into the community allows us to branch out and make it more convenient for players," Demarest said. "They don’t have to come all the way to UH. It will ease the travel costs for the players from the outer islands."
Demarest said the camps fulfill the Warriors’ larger goal of "developing relationships with the high school players at an earlier age. We’re starting to do that, and the reason is through our camps."
Registration begins at 9 a.m. (only on June 23 for the youth camp), with instruction from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Lunch will be provided.
Here’s the schedule:
» Big Man’s Camp, Wednesday, on the UH-Manoa campus.
» Maui High, Tuesday, June 10.
» Roosevelt High, Thursday, June 12.
» Waiakea High, Monday, June 16.
» Kapolei High, Sunday, June 22.
» Youth camp, June 22-23.