Back-To-Back GLIAC Champion Ferris State Unveils 2016 Elite Exposure Satellite Camp Tour
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Big Rapids, Mich. - The back-to-back Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) Champion Ferris State University football program has announced its 2016 "Elite Exposure Satellite Camp Tour" with stops at locations across the state of Michigan slated for this June.
The Bulldogs, under two-time reigning GLIAC Coach of the Year Tony Annese, have posted the best overall record of all collegiate programs in the state of Michigan over the past four years and presently own a 25-game regular season unbeaten streak.
Ferris State's summer camp tour will include stops at East English Village (June 14), East Grand Rapids (June 16), Traverse City (June 20), Brighton (June 21) and Portage Central (June 23). All camps will be open to high schoolers in grades 9-12.
Each camp will run for three hours and is only $40 per person. The camp will include combine testing, position specific drills along with fundamentals and techniques. Campers should bring a helmet and cleats and each camp is open to all position groups.
To sign up for the camp, please visit FerrisStateBulldogs.com/Camps. Walkup registration will also be available via cash/check only. Additional information can also be obtained by emailing summercamps@ferris.edu or by calling 1-866-950-2267.
Below are the dates & locations for this summer's camp tour:
June 14th - East English Village HS: 6-9 pm
June 16th - East Grand Rapids HS: 6-9 pm
June 20th - Traverse City Thirlby Field: 1-4 pm
June 21st - Brighton HS: 1-4 pm
June 23rd - Portage Central HS: 6-9 pm
The Bulldogs will begin their 108th season of varsity competition this coming fall with their sights set on repeating as GLIAC Champions for the third-straight year and making a return trip to the NCAA Division II Playoffs yet again.
Ferris State is coming off another historic campaign as the Bulldogs recorded a second-straight unbeaten regular-season en route to claiming a second consecutive GLIAC Championship in 2015. The Bulldogs also claimed the school's first NCAA Playoff win in 19 years and stretched their current regular-season win streak to 25-straight games.
Last fall, the Bulldog football squad finished 2015 with an 11-1 overall record for the second-straight year. Under Head Coach Tony Annese's direction, the Bulldogs also led the country with four Academic All-Americans and senior quarterback Jason Vander Laan claimed his second consecutive Harlon Hill Trophy as the nation's top NCAA Division II player. FSU was ranked among the nation's top 10 teams all season, including the school's highest ever national rankings at #1 in the D2Football.com poll along with #2 in the American Football Coaches Association rankings.
Since his arrival at Ferris State, Annese has turned the Bulldogs into a national power on the Division II level. The veteran coach has posted a 37-9 overall mark in four seasons at the FSU helm and has been the mastermind behind a Bulldog turnaround leading to 22 wins in the program's past 24 games overall. FSU has posted the GLIAC's best league record over the past four seasons (34-6) and the squad owns the top overall four-year record of all 21 collegiate programs in Michigan (37-9).
Overall, Annese has won 83% of his games as a head coach on the collegiate and prep levels and owns 262 wins to date, which is the most of any current GLIAC member head coach at all levels.
This past week, three members of last fall's FSU squad took part in National Football League (NFL) Rookie Camps.
Ferris State, which will return upwards of 50 letterwinners for the 2016 campaign, opens the 2016 schedule this fall at home against Ohio Dominican in Big Rapids.