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WARRIORS GO CAMPING WITH GOLDEN STATE For the Third Straight Year, the Golden State Offensive Football Camp is hosted in Warrior Country Posted 06-24-05
The Warriors may have entered this year's Golden State Offensive Football Camp (formerly called the Golden State Wing-T Camp) without the distinction of being a defending champion, but after three days of hard hitting and running/passing savvy, Tehachapi has shown early that they have the artillery to get back on top of the heap in 2005. Many of the same faces immerged at the camp from 2004, with Narbonne and Roosevelt High from Los Angeles in attendance. Granite Hills-San Diego, Compton-Los Angeles, and Madera High School were also tapped to attend, but all three schools were late scratches coming into the event. Tehachapi didn't mind sharing the love with only three schools though, that many more reps for current and future Warriors. "We were able to get about 70 kids out, about the same as Roosevelt," said Warrior Assistant Coach Bill Carll. "It would have helped in scrimmage situations to have more teams out here, but as far as teaching and drills this is a better situation for us."
The primary instruction for the camp is still the Wing-T offense, a system that Tehachapi has used to win a CIF championship in 2003 and four SSL championships since installing the system in 1996. “We have some great people involved in this camp program when it comes to knowledge of (the Wing-T) offense,” said Mike Schonewolf in 2004, Tehachapi Golden State Instructor. “When you have a great support staff, it carries over to the high school coaches and the players, and over the years it’s been a great thing to see the success take off.”
The Wing-T has original roots stemming from the University of Delaware, where head Coach Harold R. “Tubby” Raymond installed the then-revolutionary offense with his Blue Hen team during his tenure from 1966-2001. Raymond, who coached his final season just three years ago, compiled a 300-119-3 record in 422 games with Delaware, winning the UPI small college national championship in 1971 and 1972, and the NCAA Division II National Championship in 1979. With the founding school giving notice to the potential of the offense, the concept of it's teachings served notice (and started to produce success) at the high school level. Many teams bought into the wing-t system in hopes of producing more successful results in their respective divisions. One of the teams that took on the wing-t concept locally was Clovis West High School, who successfully transformed their football crazed town into a title winning machine with heavy running and sophisticated blocking schemes. With Clovis West as a barometer of the offenses success, many teams like Garces, East-Bakersfield, North-Bakersfield, and Tehachapi bought into the winning system and joined the Wing-T bandwagon after seeing Clovis West's dominance in the Central Valley. “Overall I’d say that the Wing-T that we’ve been doing every year is a large part of the success of our program in the early stages,” said Warrior Head Coach Steve Denman. “When you have a chance to get together and run plays and learn from some great minds, it helps us fine tune many different aspects of our program and get the players on a higher level heading into summer practice.”
HURDLE WARRIOR - Tehachapi's Lance Lange (in black) runs play drills with a Roosevelt-Los Angeles runner as a Golden State instructor looks on |
