Women's Football Clinics Bring Out Communities

The Wake Forest Football Program will host their annual women's football clinic on July 18.

The affair will include breakfast at 9 AM, football instruction through indoor presentations and outdoor drills on the field with Jim Grobe and the Wake Forest football staff. The program is $30 and all proceeds go towards the Coach's Kids Program, which works to get home game tickets for unprivileged youths in the Piedmont Triad area.

The Demon Deacon's women's football clinic, in its 12th year, is not only a great way to raise money for local charity and bring good press to a football program in a basketball school, but also helps to break the boundaries of run-of-the mill fundraisers by incorporating new parts of the community into their program.

And Wake isn't the only one.

Breaking away from the pancake breakfast fundraisers of yesteryear, schools like Boise State, the University of Cincinnati, Austin Peay State, The University of Utah and Clemson University use their players and their facilities to educate and inform a demographic that, traditionally it would seem, pay little or no attention to the sport.

With an increased interest in the sport in recent years, females have even begun to participate in the sport themselves in some cases. Be it in high school or a league such as the Women's Football Alliance,  female interaction with the sport increased in the 1990's and has steadily pushed the interest forward.

Of course, these clinics are not made for players on the Binghamton Tiger Cats or the Emerald Coast Barracudas, but more for those who would like to learn more about the sport and help forward a local cause at the same time.

The clinics stray from the norm and help to inform the community of what the team is doing to stay in touch with the surrounding town and give back to the area in the process.

The funds for these events go back to local non-profit programs and help to show that these institutions are here not only during the Fall, but also during the offseason, willing to be a part of the community.

Originally Posted on SportInformant.com