Participants in the Eastern Washington University football skills camp took part in a variety of workouts July 29 featuring quarterbacks, receivers and defensive backs. The day's activities concluded with one-on-one drills where the players got to put into practice what they learned from a variety of EWU coaches and players.
The Eastern Washington University football team will begin practices for the 2016 season on Tuesday, Aug. 9 on the Sports and Recreation Center practice fields.
Players will report on Aug. 7 and 8, then the team will practice together on Aug. 9 at 9:15 a.m. Eastern will practice in pads for the first time on Friday, Aug. 12 at 9:15 a.m., followed by its first of five days of two-a-day practices on Aug. 13. The Eagles are expected to exclusively use the practice fields through Aug. 17, after which Roos Field will be utilized leading up to the team's Sept. 3 opener at Washington State, which will be televised live nationally at 5 p.m. Pacific time on the Pac-12 Network.
The Eagles will scrimmage twice before the team's season opener. Eastern's first scrimmage of preseason camp will take place on Saturday, Aug. 20 at approximately 9:45 a.m., and a second scrimmage will take place a week later on Friday, Aug. 26, also at about 9:45 a.m.
Both scrimmages are free and open to the public, and will take place on the red Sprinturf surface at Roos Field. Times and locations of all practices and scrimmages are tentative and subject to change.
Eastern head coach Beau Baldwin, entering his ninth season at the helm and 13th overall at EWU, has a team ranked as high as ninth in the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision in preseason magazine polls.
The Eagles return 54 letterwinners and 14 starters from last year's team which finished 6-5 overall and 5-3 in the Big Sky Conference. The Eagles have advanced to NCAA Football Championship Subdivision Playoffs in eight of the last 12 years.
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