After a great clinic in San Angelo last month, NAC is hitting the road again — this time we’re headed to San Antonio for the Texas High School Coaches Association Convention and Coaching School July 18-21, 2010 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center. Come by our booth and see us — we will give you the full demo. We will also be showing off the results of our five regional football combines held in Texas this year. Coaches will be able to nominate players for next year’s combines on site as well as register to receive NAC news, updates and information. Visit the THSCA website for registration information and other details.
Come see us in San Antonio, July 18-21
July 16th, 2010Angelo Clinic Successful for NAC
July 6th, 2010This year’s visit to the Angelo Football Clinic proved what NAC founders have been saying all along… “that there is a need for consistent, accurate, credible – and verifiable data” in the football recruiting world.
Coaches from high schools and top colleges alike came by the NAC booth at the clinic and were shown results from all five regional high school combines we conducted in Texas this year. The feedback was all very positive.
“How do we get this?” one college coach asked.
“This is all free to the athletes and their families?” another high school coach inquired.
Questions and comments from every coach that had the opportunity to see what NAC is doing followed this trend. “We are excited about our showing at the Angelo Clinic. It feels good to get that kind of validation from some very influential D-1 college coaches,” remarked John Owen, one of NAC’s directors. “It lets us know we’re on the right track.”
The National Athletic Combine was started in 2008 by former NFL, NCAA, and High School coaches in collaboration with leading athletic technology providers who saw the need for a “standards-based” athletic combine, through which high school athletes could be evaluated fairly and accurately for college recruiters and coaches. Participation in NAC combines is free to athletes and their families.
Looking for Combine Results?
May 18th, 2010All NAC video is exclusively provided to colleges and universities for talent evaluation and recruiting purposes. It is not made available to the general public. Participants and parents will also be able subscribe to the player profiles in the near future; however this phase is still in development. We will provide an update via this blog and our website when it becomes available. Again, we appreciate your patience.
Check Out NAC Top Performers (Updated 6/24)
See who shined at National Athletic Combine! View top performers in the 40 Yd Dash, Bench Press, Broad Jump, Vertical Jump, Short and Long Shuttles, and 3-Cone Drill at our 2010 Texas Regional combines in Greenville, Kilgore, Prosper, Odessa, The Woodlands and New Braunfels.
Central Texas Combine in New Braunfels This Weekend
May 17th, 2010This weekend marks our fifth Texas high school regional, and subsequently, our last event of this combine season — the Central Texas Regional at New Braunfels High School. This is the rescheduled event from our previously postponed March combine in Austin.
Don’t forget to pre-register online. Invites have been distributed via your school coaching staff. Have your letter and invitation number ready and click here to pre-register. Deadline for pre-registration is Wednesday, May 19th. Pre-registration is required for participation. We look forward to seeing you this weekend in New Braunfels.
Football’s future, past converge in The Woodlands this weekend
April 21st, 2010Whether you’re a fan of Houston football, or you play the game at a high school somewhere in Houston, Legends Sports Complex in The Woodlands would be a good place to be Saturday and Sunday.
This weekend is National Athletic Combine’s first-ever event in the Greater Houston area. NAC will take its high-tech instruments, big-name coaches and the technicians and coaches who operate things to the venue, a 100,000 square-foot facility at 602 Pruitt Road in The Woodlands (77380).
Among the former Oilers who’ll be on hand will be former QB Dan Pastorini, offensive linemen Carl Mauck and David Carter, and defensive coordinator John Paul Young, who is among the directors of NAC. There also might be an appearance by legendary Oilers head coach Bum Phillips.
Sign-in starts at 7 a.m. both days, and it’s expected that over 100 young men, made up of mostly of rising sophomores, juniors and seniors, will be taking part in the reps, the runs, the jumps and the drills. The action starts at 8 a.m. and will wrap up mid-afternoon, probably before 4 p.m.
Parents are welcome to accompany their sons to the event, but are encouraged to bring lawn chairs as seating is limited. There will also be presentations by Scott Pucek of Xplosive Speed, who trains NFL Draft prospects at the Athletes Performance facility in Frisco; and Segun Adebayo, who will head the inaugural One Play Away O-Line vs. D-Line Camp for linemen this summer at DeKaney High School, 22351 Imperial Valley Dr. (77073), from June 9-11.
Approaching Pre-registration Deadline for Texas Gulf Coast Regional Combine in The Woodlands
April 17th, 2010Don’t forget to pre-register online for the upcoming Texas Gulf Coast Regional in at the Legends Sports Complex in The Woodlands. Invites have been distributed via your school coaching staff. Have your letter and invitation number ready and click here to pre-register. Deadline for pre-registration is Wednesday, April 21. Pre-registration is required for participation. We look forward to seeing you next weekend in The Woodlands.
Closing in on Houston
April 3rd, 2010National Athletic Combine is finishing up the final details for its first-ever Houston-area combine later this month.
The Texas Gulf Coast Region combine, the last of the season, is slated for April 24-25 at Legends Sports Complex at 602 Pruitt Road in The Woodlands (77380). The venue boasts over 100,000 square feet of fields, courts, training rooms and sports facilities.
While the selection process hasn’t started yet, it’s expected that over 200 student-athletes will participate in the two-day event. High school coaches from around the Bayou City will be contacted starting next week and are encouraged to quickly get their notifications in.
“We’re excited to come to Houston, one of the richest cities in America for high school football talent,” said John Owen, one of the NAC’s directors. “We think we can find some of the diamonds in the rough as well as showing off the talent of several marquee players from Houston.”
Onward to Austin
April 1st, 2010National Athletic Combine is ready to have its first event in over a month April 11 in Austin.
The next NAC event will be at the Travis County Expo Center, 7311 Decker Lane. The pre-registration deadline is a week from Friday, April 9, and 250 athletes have been invited so far. We’re expecting about a third of them for our next combine.
Check-in will be at 7 a.m., and the day should wrap up by 4 p.m. We’ll have highlights from the combine on our Facebook page and will have top-five performances (by drill) on our Web site soon after its completion.
Following the Austin event, we’re finalizing preparations for our next combine in Northwest Houston. Nothing’s official yet, but we’re expecting it to take place on the second-to-last weekend of April. Stay tuned.
The big names are coming to San Angelo
March 28th, 2010The speaker lineup for the 37th annual Angelo Football Clinic, set for June 16-18 in San Angelo, was recently released, and it reads like a who’s who of top high school, college and pro coaches.
What’s that got to do with the National Athletic Combine? Well, besides the fact that any collection of gridiron minds is a valuable resource, several of the directors of the clinic (including John Paul Young and Jim Hess) are also directors of NAC.
Angelo Football Clinic has been held for almost four decades and annually brings together high school coaches from all over Texas as well as Louisiana, New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma and other states to hear intense chalkboard sessions with big-name coaches from around the nation. The clinic, held at Angelo State University’s Junell Center, has become a staple of the offseason for the Lone Star State’s best prep coaches, and offers them a chance to meet, greet and keep up with longtime friends in the coaching community as well as shaking hands with the numerous college coaches who regularly visit.
Nick Saban. Mack Brown. Jason Garrett. All these coaches will be presenting in June. Meanwhile, veteran NFL coaches Larry Zeirlein and Rex Norris will also be speaking, as well as coaches from several major schools (Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, Arkansas, SMU, Nebraska and more).
To see more, visit the clinic’s Web site.
Coming into focus
March 25th, 2010After weeks of uncertainty, we at National Athletic Combine are honing in on a date and a site for our next two combines in Central Texas (greater Austin) and South Texas (greater Houston).
“The challenge has been finding venues that have turf,” said John Paul Young, Sr., one of the directors of NAC. “We’ve visited several sites, but unless the facility has a high school team practicing there regularly or an arena team playing there, turf is hard to find.”
Young said one site he checked on Wednesday in the Houston area had been converted into a weight room, while two others were very impressive sites but lacked availability in May as well as turf. He said there is one more venue that could easily host an NAC event that is under consideration, but discussions are still ongoing there.
“We’ll keep looking,” he said. “We’re hoping to get something done in Houston in early- to mid-May.”
As for Austin, he said April 11 is the date NAC is focusing on, and he said he felt certain that date would hold. He added that both Austin and Houston are set to be one-day combines on Sundays, as was NAC’s last event at Permian High School in Odessa.
Stay tuned to The NAC Blog for more details.
