Newman’s Corner

Our own Anthony Newman talking about the Oregon Ducks with Joe Giansante!

Have you seen this video of our football camp? It's a great video of kids doing drills, playing games and cheering each other on. We offer football camp as well as a defensive football academy and a youth football coaches' clinic.

Our next Youth Football Coaches Clinic will be June 7th, in Portland. We've got some great speakers lined up. Neal Zoumboukus will talk about the offensive line, Tanner Smith on the defensive line, Steve Pyne will talk about the quarterback position, Juston Wood on the wide receiver, and John Neal will be discussing the defensive back position. Jim Radcliffe will be discussing strength and conditioning.

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Tanner Smith will be the guest speaker for the Defensive Line position at our youth football coach's clinic.

Coach Smith enters his fifth season defensive line and kickers coach for Willamette University. He played four seasons of football at Montana State University - Northern as a center and a kicker. He set five school kicking records during his career. As a freshman, he kicked a 23-yard field goal in overtime to give MSU-Northern its first conference win in 27 years.

Prior to joining the Bearcat football coaching staff in 2004, he coached football for one year at Sentinel High School, his alma mater, in Missoula, Mont. He graduated from Montana State-Northern in 2003 with a degree in Physical Education.

 Coach Smith, along with Neal Zoumboukis, Steve Pyne, Juston Wood and others, will be speaking at our upcoming youth football coaches clinic.

Jim Radcliffe will be the guest speaker for strength and conditioning at our youth football coaches clinic.

Coach Radcliffe, Oregon's head strength and conditioning coach for the last 21 seasons, plays a significant role in the Ducks' football program as the designer of the year-round development calendar.

Radcliffe, who guided the receivers during much of the 1999 fall camp, furnishes the student-athletes with a wide variety of exercise through weight training and lifting systems, and is a noted authority in the field of exercises dealing with the improvement of speed and quickness.

The 50-year-old native of McCloud, California, became the assistant strength coach at Oregon in 1985, a position he held for two years before assuming the duties of head coach in that area.

Radcliffe taught and coached a variety of sports and was the athletic trainer for four years at Aloha High School from 1980-83.

He then did graduate study at Colorado and worked in private business prior to joining the Ducks' staff. Graduating from Pacific (Ore.) in Forest Grove, he played four seasons at defensive back and was captain of the special teams. Radcliffe earned his Master's in biomechanics from Oregon in 1992.

Radcliffe is active in national organizations surrounding his profession and is certified by the United States Weightlifting Federation. He also has written books, been published in numerous professional journals and produced videos on plyometrics, one of the most effective exercise techniques.