Eric Stokes and Sheldon Rankins return to host football camp at Sharp Stadium

COVINGTON, Ga. – The Eastside Eagles soccer program hosted a youth camp at Sharp Stadium Wednesday afternoon with the assistance of two former Eagles.

Eastside alumni and present NFL professionals Eric Stokes and Sheldon Rankins stopped by to assist the coaches and present gamers with the camp.

The camp was free to enter and was held for youths in kindergarten all the way in which to seventh grade.

For Stokes, organizing camps like these is one thing he sees himself doing with the Eagles for a few years to come back.

“I needed to hitch with [Sheldon], we needed to do that with our highschool to arrange a camp for everybody,” Stokes stated. “That is my first camp; that is going to be our check run so we will come again and make it even higher subsequent 12 months.”

Like Stokes, Rankins noticed this camp as a possibility to point out children in Covington that having the will to play skilled sports activities is one thing that’s attainable for all of them.

“It exhibits that goals are actually attainable, once I was right here, I had the dream of desirous to play within the NFL, and I’m on 12 months eight proper now which is loopy to consider,” Rankins stated. “It’s about exhibiting the children that there is no such thing as a such factor as dreaming too massive.”

Following the occasion, Stokes spoke about how a lot taking part within the camp in his hometown meant to him and the way he views giving again.

“It is extremely vital [to give back] as a result of my neighborhood made me,” Stokes stated. “If it was notfor all of the individuals I met on the each day it will not have occurred. Having the ability to give again is a blessing to me.”

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