Tre Norwood football camp set for June 24 at Northside High School

Tre Norwood, who is making his name in the NFL, and his aunt, Tiffany Jarrett, a former Razorback cheerleader, will host football and cheer camps at Northside High School this month.

The camps will be 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 24 at Mayo-Thompson Stadium, 2301 N. B Street.

Norwood is a Northside graduate who played football at the University of Oklahoma and now is in his third year with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Jarrett, Norwood's aunt, is a former University of Arkansas cheerleader who also cheered at Van Buren High School and is now cheer coach at Booker T. Washington High School.

Special guests will include Green Bay Packers' cornerback Kiondre Thomas and other NFL players, including Terrell Edmunds of the Philadelphia Eagles, Tre Brown of the Seattle Seahawks and Kendrick Green of Pittsburgh Steelers.

It is a family event, with Norwood's mom, Shea Norwood, of Fort Smith coordinating the camps.

"This is our first camp and we are looking to make it an annual event," Shea Norwood said.

The family's long history of helping the community inspired the idea for a nonprofit camp, she said. Her father-in-law, the late Michael Norwood Sr., was a principal at Kimmons Junior High School. Her family has been involved in two mentoring programs, the Round Table volunteer group, which mentored the Golden Knights students at Northside, and the Jewels, a mentoring program at Kimmons and Sunnymede Elementary, Shea Norwood said.

When Tre Norwood played football at OU, the family was involved in distributing backpacks and school supplies to students.

"It's very important that we give back to the community We've always wanted to give back to help youth," Shea Norwood said.

The football camp features separate age groups for campers: kindergarten through fourth grade, fifth grad through eighth grade and ninth grade through 12th grad. The cheer camp is for ages 10-17.

A seven-on-seven exhibition football game will be at 5 p.m. at the end of the camp.

There will also be a silent auction for Tre Norwood gameday apparel including Sooners' and Steelers' jerseys during the day.

The NFL players and friends give motivating talks to campers. The camp will be open to the public for spectators and the concession stand will be open and two food truck's Kona Ice, and World of Fries.

The proceeds from the camp are being donated to Northside football program, the Donald Reynolds Cancer Support House and other community organizations.

Registration remained open Thursday for a limited number of spots, Shea Norwood said. For more information visit www.asgfootball.com/trenorwoodcamp.

This article originally appeared on Fort Smith Times Record: Football and cheer camp at Northside will be held June 24