Trubisky Mentor Football Youth Camp
When: June 11-14
Where: Mentor’s Jerome T. Osborne Stadium
How to sign up: To be announced
What to look for: Trubisky will be in attendance all four days of the camp.
The Mentor Football Youth Camp has a new name, and that name is as big as it gets within the Mentor football program.
The camp, which has been in existence for more than a decade, will now be known as the Mitchell Trubisky Mentor Football Youth Camp, starting this summer. The camp is set for June 11-14.
Cardinals football coach Steve Trivisonno said Trubisky’s involvement with the camp came about during a recent offseason conversation.
“Mitch said he loved the camp when he was growing up, one of his favorite things about the summer,” said Trivisonno. “He really wanted to get involved, and we were like, ‘Let’s do it.’ We’re excited to have Mitch involved.”
Trubisky will be in attendance during the four-day camp, which goes from 9 a.m. to noon each day at Mentor’s Jerome T. Osborne Stadium. Trivisonno said, depending on the amount of campers, some parts of the camp could be moved to the adjacent fields outside the JTO.
“We’re hoping there’s a lot of interest (in the camp),” said Trivisonno.
The camp is open to first- through sixth-graders, and will be hosted by Mentor coaches and players, as well as Trubisky.
Trivisonno said details such as the cost of the camp, and how to sign up will be announced soon.
“We’re still figuring out the details, but the camp is a go,” he said.
Trubisky graduated from Mentor in 2012, and left as Lake County’s career leader in passing yards with more than 9,000 yards. As a senior, he threw for more than 4,000 yards and was named Mr. Football in Ohio.
As a redshirt junior at the University of North Carolina in 2016, he passed for 3,748 yards and 30 TDs, then declared for the draft. A few months later, he was the No. 2 overall pick of the Chicago Bears.
In 12 starts last season, he threw for 2,193 yards and seven touchdowns. But those numbers could increase with the arrival of new Bears coach Matt Nagy, an assistant under Chiefs coach Andy Reid the last five seasons. Trubisky is excited about Nagy’s wide-open offense he’s implementing in the Windy City. The team started its offseason program April 3.
“The offense I want to run is the offense we’re installing right now,” Trubisky said recently on NFL Network. “Just after a couple days of installing it and actually being able to talk with coaches, I really feel like I was built for this offense. It’s just dynamic, it’s creative and it’s always balanced — and that’s what you want.”
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