This 7,000 seat lighted Stadium located in picturesque Worsham Canyon, was renovated during the summer of 2008.  Wallace "Chief" Newman Field was resurfaced with SprintTurf, one of the leading turf manufacturers in the world.  Aubrey Bonham Track was also resurfaced and along with the addition of the Donald E. Wood Press Box gives Whittier College one of the finest football and track facilities in the West.  The Stadium is home to Poets Football in the Fall and Track & Field and Lacrosse in the Spring.  It will also serve as the hub for the intramural program on campus.

 

Directing this outstanding week of camp is Head Football Coach BJ Hammer. Coach Hammer is coming off his second season as the head coach of the Poets. Previously he spent three seasons as the defensive coordinator for Whittier and continues in that role as the head coach. BJ began his coaching career as the outside linebackers coach for Wabash College in 2001-2002 and he was also the assistant strength coach.  In 2002, he was the linebackers coach for Heidelberg College in Tiffin, OH. Hammer was also the strength and conditioning coach for Heidelberg. Coach Hammer has been a veteran clinician of Contact football Camps and we are thrilled to have him directing this summer’s camp.

 Assisting coach Hammer is longtime Contact Football Camp instructor and Assistant Football Coach at Whittier, Bill O’Boyle. Coach O'Boyle began his coaching career in 1988 at Dana College, where he was the defensive line coach for five seasons.  He then moved on to St. Cloud State University for two and a half seasons and during his time there, coached the defensive line, defensive ends and linebackers.  In 1995, he became the defensive line coach at Hastings College.  He served in that role for two seasons before being named the defensive coordinator.  O'Boyle continued at Hastings until 2001, and helped lead that program to a #1 national ranking in 1998 and #3 national rankings before the start of both the 1999 and 2000 seasons.  O'Boyle's defenses were ranked in the top 10 in a number of categories during the 1998 and 1999 seasons.  He then went to the University of Redlands in 2001, where he assumed the defensive and recruiting coordinator responsibilities.  In 2002-2003, he helped guide the Bulldogs to back-to-back NCAA playoff appearances.  In 2005, he moved to the offensive coordinator position at Redlands.  Since 1993, O'Boyle has worked numerous summer football camps and NFL training camps.  He was named the AFCA National Assistant "Coach of the Year" in the NAIA in 2000.

 

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