NUC Special Teams U100 Camp...Two NUC Kickers Committ to Houston and Alabama

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Top Kicker

Name	Tee	Made	FG Attempts	% Good	Long	Total Points
F. Velez	Ground	13	14	93%	55	24

Top Kickoff

Name	Tee	Distance Avg.	Hang Avg.	Best Distance	Best HT	Total Points
F. Velez	1"	70	3.95	75	4.1	22

Top Underclassmen Kicker

Name	Tee	FG Made	FG Attempts	% Good	Long	Total Points
N. St. Germain	1"	14	16	88%	55	22

He is only a rising soph

Top Underclassmen Kickoff

Name	Tee	Distance Avg.	Hang Avg.	Best Distance	Best HT	Total Points
N. St. Germain	1"	58	3.55	67	3.7	7

Top Punters

Name	# punts	Distance Avg.	Hang Avg.	Best Distance	Best HT	Total Points
Jay Williams	17	48.8	4.6	57	5.01	117
Richie Leone	16	47.7	4.59	55	4.98	115

Jay is committed to Alabama
Richie is committed to Houston
NUC Kickers are now going major places

Top Punters Underclassmen

S. Clark	10	38	4.08	51	4.62	26
M. Lucas	10	43.8	3.7	50	4.3	23

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NUC is QB University

From the desk of Coach Schuman,

It all began in 2005 when Tyrod Taylor (Virginia Tech) came to the National Underclassmen Combine and stood out, along with then QB , now all american candidate CB Joe Haden (Florida)...started the prominence of standout QB's coming through the events. In 2006 amazing QB's such as Star Jackson (ALabama), Tom Savage (Rutgers) and Aaron Murray(Georgia), in 2007 with Tajh Boyd (Clemson), Joe Southwick (Boise State), Austin Carter-Samuels (Wyoming), and now check out the Class of 2010...these guys are our current committed past attendees, there are at least 10 more with offers that are yet to committ!!! NUC...UKnow!

The Tradition continues with these committs!!!!!

C.J. Bennett 6-0/198/4.9 Tampa, FL Wyoming
Brandon Connette 6-2/190/- Corona, CA Duke
Zach Lee 6-4/195/4.77 McKinney, TX LSU
Brett Nottingham 6-4/210/- Danville, CA UCLA
Tanner Price 6-2/195/4.7 Austin, TX Wake Forest
Jameill Showers 6-1/200/4.62 Killeen, TX Texas A&M
Connor Wood 6-4/209/4.6 Houston, TX Texas
Barry Brunetti 6-0/207/4.81 Memphis, TN West Virginia
Johnny Deaton 6-3/195/4.6 Sand Springs, OK Oklahoma State
Case McCoy 6-2/169/4.7 Graham, TX Texas
Kevin Spain 6-3/190/4.7 Phoenix, AZ Hawaii
Sam Stratton 6-0/185/4.56 Littleton, CO Wyoming
Caleb Watkins 6-3/205/4.53 Middletown, OH Bowling Green
Chandler Whitmer 6-1/185/4.89 Downers Grove, IL Illinois
Ricardo Young 6-1/170/4.52 Washington, DC Virginia Tech

K-M standout Visa Thach to transfer, play for Lions

Kent’s Visa Thach is only 15 years old and hasn’t yet entered his sophomore year in high school, but that hasn’t stopped him from quickly becoming one of the area’s most talked about football players.
Charles Cortes/Reporter

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By ERICK WALKER
Auburn Reporter Sports Reporter
Jul 09 2009

He can bench press 135 pounds 50 times.
Punch up his name on YouTube and more than a dozen highlight videos appear. Many are from the fall football season, when he was the starting linebacker at Kent-Meridian High. Another shows his tremendous prowess on the bench press, where he’s capable of tossing up 275 pounds three times.
On a recent sun-baked afternoon, he can be found working through strength and agility drills at French Field with half a dozen college athletes, two of whom play football at the University of Puget Sound, and another of whom is heading to Idaho State in the fall, and yet another who is going to Penn State to play rugby.
In the middle is the guy with the nearly shaven scalp, who posts the gaudy numbers on the bench press and who won’t be attending college in the fall. At 5-foot-9, 214 pounds and biceps the size of grapefruits, he fits right in with the college mix.
Except one thing: He’s just 15 years old.
On a summer day when most his age are hanging out and goofing off with friends during the warm afternoons of late June, Visa Thach is where he wants to be: training.
“The intensity and workouts, being around the older guys … it makes me want to work harder,” said Thach, who was the captain of the Kent-Meridian High defense last fall, even though he was just a freshman.
For Thach, the words come slowly and carefully, often sounding like a motivational advertisement one would see written on a T-shirt rather than coming from the mouth of a 15 year old.
But with each word and every syllable, one goal remains paramount to Thach.
“I am looking out for my future,” he said.
The future for the beefy and young linebacker started going airborne on May 29, when Thach took part in the National Underclassman Combine at Franklin High in Seattle. But he wasn’t just another face in the crowd during the Rivals.com-sponsored event.
Thach, who speaks softly and is polite almost to a fault, essentially was The Man. More than 300 football players in grades 9 through 11 from all over the Northwest attended. Each player was put through grueling tests: 40-yard dash, 20-yard shuttle, vertical jump, standing broad jump and bench press, among others.
When the one-day gathering was finished, Thach stood above most everyone else as he earned the combine’s Leadership and Defensive MVP honors. The achievement came with a $2,000 scholarship from the National Collegiate Scouting Association, which is used by colleges as a recruiting tool. The scholarship will go toward Thach’s athletic portfolio. That portfolio will be presented to various Division I schools across the nation through Rivals.com along with other sporting and recruiting Web sites.
But Thach isn’t about to rest on his laurels.
If anything, his accomplishment at the combine is pushing him to new levels already this summer.
“It means a lot,” said Thach, who recently enlisted with a training program at the Kent-based Imperial Fitness, which he was working out with at French Field during a recent Tuesday afternoon. “I realize now that I have to work a lot harder.”
Lucky for Thach, he’ll get that chance.
The scholarship came with an invitation to the Ultimate 100 camp, which is set for July 10-12 in Los Angeles.
Thach’s rapid ascension hasn’t been lost on those who’ve watched him work.
“I don’t know many 15 year olds like him,” said Ryan Riess, who owns, operates and trains athletes out of Imperial Fitness. “He’s a hard worker. He’s on another level right now physically and mentally (than other 15 year olds).”
Thach’s new coach at Auburn Mountainview Mike Clancy agrees.
“He enrolled a couple weeks ago through our registrar office,” Clancy said. “I didn’t know a lot about him at first, but his qualifications as a starter and leader for Kent-Meridian proceed him. We’re excited to have him and work with him and have him on our team.”
According to Clancy, he says the team has already elevated their performance in response to Thach’s work ethic in conditioning this summer.
“He’s already making this team better,” Clancy said.
Idaho State-bound lineman Isaiah Walker, Thach’s teammate at K-M, agrees.
“He’s got unlimited talent,” Walker said. “He’s very dedicated and works hard. He will go far because he wants it.”
But what Thach wants most of all is to play football at the University of Michigan after graduating from high school.
It’s a dream that began when he was just 9 years old, playing for the Kent Knights. That dream continued to grow while Thach was an eighth grader at Mill Creek Middle School, a time when he also was the water boy at K-M.
And though Thach is still just 15 and hasn’t yet begun his sophomore year in high school, it’s a dream he believes is well within reach — one that will only become closer the harder he works. It helps explain why he enlisted in the training program at Imperial Fitness and why he finds enjoyment in working out with athletes several years older.
“I’ve always wanted to go to Michigan since I was young and I’m really focusing on that,” said Thach, who is equally gifted in the classroom, where he sports a 3.6 grade-point average. “I love the sport and I love working hard.
“I have to be really dedicated.”

Some Tips from Coach Schuman on Pre Season Football

Top Prospect Camp Individual Heashots

Top Prospect Camp Individual Heashots

How to become a champion?

Athlete always ask what do i have to do to become  a champion? well a lot goes into being a champion, but most important you have to understand the road to get there. Interestingly enough, yesterday while doing our advocare shoot with Real Andrews, we came up with some great answers...and that video is coming soon, but let me go into a little depth on what I think you can do.

#1 Have a dream....dream big!
#2 Have Goals within that dream...what do i mean. For example. I want to rush for 1000 yards and by doing that, i will have chance to play in college.
#3 Have an action plan.  You must have a plan to accomplish that dream. Set things that you can do weekly, daily and monthly to make it happen.
#4 Stick to it ness...i know that sounds weird, but the ability to stick to your knitting and take each and every step to make it happen, you cannot let setbacks stop you.
#5 Unbridled Determination.....If you are determined you will not let anything stop you...period.

I hope this helps....stay with it!

Coach Schuman

Three NUC Alums commit to USC

Amazing, Randall Telfer,





Anthony Brown






and Robert Woods have all committed to USC To play for the Trojans and Pete Carroll. More amazing athletes to come!!!