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NFA Quarterback Training at WRA

The past two days, WRA’s athletic facilities have hosted the National Football Academies (NFA) and their quarterback training camp. Darin Slack, Founder and President of NFA, and his team of certified coaches have been training approximately 30 young men, ages 9-18, on the mental and mechanical skills required to be a quarterback.

Exclusively for training quarterbacks, Slack founded the initial iteration of the program in 1988. Today, it has grown beyond just quarterback training, and the international organization runs nearly 80 camps around the world.

The program, as is made evident through NFA’s motto, “Coaching Football: Building Men,” doesn’t focus solely on the physical side of football training. Instead, Slack states, they utilize “a combination of motivational leadership along with the understanding of how to properly accelerate learning in quarterbacks.”

“The mental side is as important as the mechanical, so we try to build those together in a parallel relationship,” stresses Slack. His mix of “skills training, drill development and leadership understanding” during the camp allows NFA to simply “do more with less time.”

With regards to the facilities made available at Western Reserve Academy, Slack expressed his gratitude towards Head Coach Jeff Hildebrand and the school. “It’s relationships like this that allow us to keep doing what we’re doing in an effective way, and so we hope to keep that relationship going with Western Reserve Academy,” he said.