2008 Woodie Awards
Troy Brown Fantasy Football Camp returns for second year
Andrew Damron
Issue date: 4/3/08 Section: Sports
The second annual Troy Brown Fantasy Football Camp will begin Friday at Joan C. Edwards Stadium. The fantasy camp game will be played Saturday.
"The goal of the camp is to raise funds to help out the Marshall University Childcare Academy," said former Marshall football player and current New England Patriots wide receiver Troy Brown.
The camp will include two nights lodging for participants.
Friday evening will conclude with a reception and Saturday morning will open with practice.
The game will take place Saturday afternoon with an evening banquet and awards ceremony to conclude the experience.
"We want them to get some kind of experience of what it is like to go through an NFL combine," Brown said. "They'll run the 40 (yard dash), do vertical jumps and that type of stuff, so they will get some idea of what it is like to go through training camp even though it is on a much smaller scale than what we would do in the NFL."
Participants involved in the camp must be at least 23 years of age and pay a $1,000 entry fee.
All of the proceeds from the event go to benefit the Marshall University Childcare Development Academy where Brown's two sons went while he was away from Huntington.
"I'm very grateful to Troy; he's just such a wonderful asset to our community as a whole and to the children," said Marshall University Director of the Child Development Academy Susan Miller. "When Troy and I have sat down to talk about some of his visions, we also talked about doing some early education centers in his hometown of South Carolina."
Miller said Brown is very devoted to children and Brown's parenting skills show how he cares about education and youth in the community.
"I got to meet Troy Brown not as a celebrity, not as a football player, but as a dad," Miller said. "His boys went to the academy before they started public school and even though Troy was out of town a lot during the season, when he was here he was the one that picked the boys up."
"The goal of the camp is to raise funds to help out the Marshall University Childcare Academy," said former Marshall football player and current New England Patriots wide receiver Troy Brown.
The camp will include two nights lodging for participants.
Friday evening will conclude with a reception and Saturday morning will open with practice.
The game will take place Saturday afternoon with an evening banquet and awards ceremony to conclude the experience.
"We want them to get some kind of experience of what it is like to go through an NFL combine," Brown said. "They'll run the 40 (yard dash), do vertical jumps and that type of stuff, so they will get some idea of what it is like to go through training camp even though it is on a much smaller scale than what we would do in the NFL."
Participants involved in the camp must be at least 23 years of age and pay a $1,000 entry fee.
All of the proceeds from the event go to benefit the Marshall University Childcare Development Academy where Brown's two sons went while he was away from Huntington.
"I'm very grateful to Troy; he's just such a wonderful asset to our community as a whole and to the children," said Marshall University Director of the Child Development Academy Susan Miller. "When Troy and I have sat down to talk about some of his visions, we also talked about doing some early education centers in his hometown of South Carolina."
Miller said Brown is very devoted to children and Brown's parenting skills show how he cares about education and youth in the community.
"I got to meet Troy Brown not as a celebrity, not as a football player, but as a dad," Miller said. "His boys went to the academy before they started public school and even though Troy was out of town a lot during the season, when he was here he was the one that picked the boys up."
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