MIAMI (June 8, 2017) – Riccardo Silva Stadium was the site for Thursday's adidas Football Camp featuring over 650 participants.
 
FIU along with 13 other Division I programs, including Texas A&M, Nebraska, Rutgers, and N.C. State held an intensive camp designed to teach each participant the football fundamentals needed to excel at their position. The camp also included hands-on individual techniques as well as competitions.
 
"Tonight was a huge success and was great for the FIU football program," FIU Head Coach Butch Davis said. "Our coaches got an unbelievable opportunity to work with over 650 kids. For the kids, it was great for them because they got a chance to come out, showcase their skill level, get a chance to compete, have some fun and learn some football from our coaches. And obviously, because of our relationship with adidas, there were 13 other Division I schools here. So, a lot of kids got great exposure."
 
Thursday's camp was open to anyone entering grades 9-12 as of Fall 2017 and junior college freshmen and sophomores.
 
Butch Davis Football Camps will continue on Saturday, June 10, with two sessions. The first beginning at 9 a.m. and running to 1 p.m., while the second session will begin at 4 p.m. and will last till 8 p.m. FIU welcomes the staffs of Ohio State and Alabama to Saturday's camps with head coaches Urban Meyer and Nick Saban slated to attend session two.  
 
For more information, log onto https://camps.jumpforward.com/ButchDavisFootballCamps.  
 
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About FIU Athletics: FIU Athletics is home to more than 400 student-athletes in 18 different sports. Athletic events are played in eight different venues on FIU's campuses (Modesto A. Maidique and Biscayne Bay), including FIU Arena and Riccardo Silva Stadium.
 
About FIU: Florida International University is classified by Carnegie as a "R1: Doctoral Universities - Highest Research Activity" and recognized as a Carnegie Community Engaged university. It is a public research university with colleges and schools that offers bachelor's, master's and doctoral programs in fields such as business, engineering, computer science, international relations, architecture, law and medicine. As one of South Florida's anchor institutions, FIU contributes almost $9 billion each year to the local economy and is ranked second in Florida in Forbes Magazine's "America's Best Employers" list. FIU graduates are consistently among the highest paid college graduates in Florida and are among the leaders of public and private organizations throughout South Florida. FIU is Worlds Ahead in finding solutions to the most challenging problems of our time. FIU emphasizes research as a major component of its mission with multiple state-of-the-art research facilities including the Wall of Wind Research and Testing Facility, FIU's Medina Aquarius Program and the Advanced Materials Engineering Research Institute.  FIU has awarded more than 220,000 degrees and enrolls more than 54,000 students in two campuses and centers including FIU Downtown on Brickell, FIU@I-75, the Miami Beach Urban Studios, and Tianjin, China. FIU also supports artistic and cultural engagement through its three museums: Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, the Wolfsonian-FIU, and the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU. FIU is a member of Conference USA and more than 400 student-athletes participating in 18 sports. For more information about FIU, visit http://www.fiu.edu/.