Football camps have been established for a while. It’s a setting that allows athletes to come in and get coached up by different coaches and trainers in different settings. They sometimes also allow athletes the opportunity to showcase their talents in front of college coaches and gain the exposure needed to possibly earn a scholarship offer.
These camps have proven to be very beneficial to both the student athlete and college football programs, but what separates one football camp from another? There are only so many different football drills, right?
Sound Mind Sound Body certainly distinguishes itself from all other camps across the nation.
This unique experience began in 2004 at MLK High School in Detroit with approximately 50-75 campers in attendance. Curtis Blackwell was born and raised in Detroit and founded Sound Mind Sound Body. He had hopes of helping student athletes in the Metro Detroit community graduate high school and earn college scholarships.
What has transpired is much more than that!
SMSB is now a six city tour with 30+ colleges represented by 100+ coaches at each location. Just like the name says, it differentiates itself by focusing on the mind and body. SMSB focuses on teaching the student athletes life skills including how to conduct themselves on social media, but also teaches the parents on recruiting.
Sound Mind Sound Body’s Chris Morman has been there from the beginning. He told PlayBookAthlete of a mother who has already had two sons that went through the recruiting process that went on to play for Rutgers University and The University of Florida. She told of how much they learned from SMSB and how impressed her other son is to be a part of this movement.
With everything they offer and bigtime coaches from across the country now showing up to each event, Morman says SMSB could make a lot of money off of the camp experience that they provide. But they have never strayed away from the reasons Sound Mind Sound body was started in 2004, which is to make it affordable for kids to get opportunities and exposure that they wouldn’t have otherwise.
