R.I. Football Academy a success once again

Pete Fontaine
Posted 7/16/15

The Rhode Island Football Academy, which strives to make each participant a better player, completed its 13th annual Summer Camp last Friday at the Community College of Rhode Island’s Knight Campus …

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R.I. Football Academy a success once again

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The Rhode Island Football Academy, which strives to make each participant a better player, completed its 13th annual Summer Camp last Friday at the Community College of Rhode Island’s Knight Campus Athletic Complex in Warwick.

Some 200 youngsters ages 7-14 from all parts of the state – and as far away as England and Germany and other parts of New England – spent a week learning a variety of fundamentals from some of the Ocean State’s top schoolboy coaches and former standouts who have gone on to coach at the collegiate level.

The RIFA staff, which is considered one of the finest in the area and is committed to developing players’ finest possible skills, last week received high praise from a number of parents who actually took in many of the sessions at CCRI.

“The coaches at this camp take the time to instruct all the campers of all levels,” Rich Losasso, a Coventry resident whose son Anthony attended the youth division, offered. “This is a quality football camp where the kids learn all kinds of basics and techniques.”

The RIFA, which is under the leadership of founder/director Paul Sylvia and Cranston High East Head Coach Tom Centore, also features a high school division.

“We stress teaching football the right way,” Sylvia said prior to the youth division’s traditional last-day pizza party. “Our campers go through seven stations during the week.”

Sylvia explained that each camper learns about four offensive and three defensive sides during the fun and fast-moving day camp. Those offensive areas are: quarterback, receivers, offensive line and running back. Defenses are: defensive line, linebackers and defensive backs.

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