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On The Set! Jocks 2025
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When a community rallies around its youth sports programs, something magical happens. The Raynham Giants' annual Jocks Camp stands as powerful proof of this connection between athletics, mentorship, and community building.
This summer marked a significant transition as SRO Officer Jenny Lang and Sergeant Frank Pacheco stepped into leadership roles for the camp previously run by Lou Pacheco for decades. Their commitment to preserving traditions while looking toward the future captures the essence of what makes this program special—continuity paired with evolution.
What sets Jocks Camp apart isn't just the football fundamentals being taught; it's the remarkable community support surrounding it. With nearly 120 volunteers supporting 130 young athletes, the camp achieves an almost one-to-one ratio of mentorship. High school players return to coach younger athletes, first responders provide safety and positive role modeling, and dedicated parents ensure everything runs smoothly.
Bridgewater-Raynham High School coach Ian Bain's presence adds another dimension through his "Row the Boat" philosophy. Born from personal tragedy, this mantra emphasizes perseverance, teamwork, and direction—values that transcend football. As Bain explains, "It's really about just never giving up, always working forward to something."
The excitement of Combine Day—featuring the 40-yard dash, plank competitions, and various skill challenges—creates natural opportunities for young athletes to push themselves and celebrate achievements beyond just speed or strength. Every child finds their moment to shine.
For parents considering youth football, the Raynham Giants program offers more than athletic development. It provides a supportive community where children learn discipline, teamwork, and the value of giving back—lessons that will serve them long after they hang up their cleats.
Want to see community youth sports at their finest? Follow the Raynham Giants this season and witness firsthand how a football program becomes the beating heart of a community.
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Hello everybody, I am here today with the SRO Officer, jenny Lang. Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 2:You're welcome.
Speaker 1:Officer Lang is helping out as well with JOX camp, alongside Frank Pacheco. First question to you is you're getting involved more and more often with the Rainham Giants, especially being at JOX camp. So I'm gonna ask you how does it feel to be here, you know, just seeing all the kids you know gathered, gathered together, getting ready for football season, getting in shape and all that I love it.
Speaker 2:I love it. We took over for lou. We want to keep the tradition alive, so, uh, we had a couple meetings. We've got a couple new t-shirt colors. Um, I have a little guy that plays too, so it's fun, fun to be out here and I hang out with everybody. A lot of good energy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, love it what would you say to those kids who are interested in being a part of jobs?
Speaker 2:I would say get out here. It doesn't take a football player to be here, it takes the kids that maybe play flag football and you always want to try tackle. You might not even have any interest in playing, but you want to give it a shot for a week. Come on out. We have kids in different towns, all different ages, all different skill sets. We'd love to have you.
Speaker 1:So I'm going to ask you what are you excited about for Combine Day tomorrow?
Speaker 2:I love all the obstacles I love to see. The plank might be my favorite because kids wow you. I don't have the ab muscles that I used to have, so I'm very jealous of the kids that can hold a plank for five minutes or longer. There's several. A lot of these kids have absolute wheels and kill it on the 40 and the 50, so it's a nice to see that too.
Speaker 1:Very good, yeah. Now what is your host for the upcoming jocks camp next year, as where we're enjoying it now? But obviously we've got to look ahead.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we have to have a couple more meetings. A lot of things work here. They've been working. There's a couple things we might need to tweak for next year, whether it be different stations, adding in a couple more drills that we don't have, taking out some things that we already have, maybe figuring out a better way to utilize the coaches and the kids that are helping.
Speaker 1:Hello everybody and welcome to RainTap Channel's special coverage of the Jockey Menu. My name is Al Spade, the jockey men. He gets it, frank, good to be with you.
Speaker 3:It feels great. It's a lot of pressure, that's for sure. You know we've been running this camp for 20 something years now, so you know we passed the torch, we retired, so it feels good to be out here and continue the tradition. And I'm a little nervous but I think we've been running okay so far and I'm happy. We haven't actually changed a whole bunch because of how well it's been going okay so far and I'm happy we haven't actually changed a whole bunch because of how well it's been run. We try to keep a lot of the stations similar, so the kids are getting all the conditioning and football drills in and we're gonna see how it goes if we have time as far as changes for like offensive or defensive drills for later in the week.
Speaker 1:What are some tips to a successful doctor, especially since it's the first one to go on?
Speaker 3:Sure, I would say consistency and keeping a lot of things the same with how it's been run, because that's how all the coaches and kids are used to. So I would say, being consistent and keeping a lot of things similar to how it's been done will work the best.
Speaker 1:Last question for you Do the kids out there who are interested in being a draftsman? If they don't know where to start, what tips would you give to them?
Speaker 3:I would say, if you're interested and you don't know where to start, you definitely can't be sitting on your couch all summer long. It is a football camp, so it's hot, we're in the middle of August, you have a helmet on, you have equipment on, so you've got to be able to exercise on every day and running and getting ready because football's hard. So you can't just come out here with no exercise all summer and try and just jump right into the camp.
Speaker 1:Hello everybody, welcome back. I am here with the president of the Rain Cam Giants, mr Ryan Schleicher. Ryan, I think everybody likes to hear you speak a lot, but it's so good to be back with you again. Thank you very much for your time. Now I've got to ask you from the beginning of your time as the president of the Rain Cam Giants to now what have been some successes that you've brought to the Giants organization so far.
Speaker 3:This is my fourth year, so I'm excited to enter the fourth year. You know, just like I probably have said every year now, though, this is a program that has long been around for a lot longer than me, so I'm lucky to take it in amazing shape and I've had a lot of fun the last few years with an amazing board. You know. Overall, though, we're happy about certain things we've been able to do around the complex. We got a new visitor side bleachers. That has been important. Working on the field right now, getting some improvements done to the center of the field. We've continued to improve our equipment and get new equipment every year and upgrade and maintain our important health and safety protocols for all that. So that's been something that's been important to me and, honestly, it's people. So we keep recruiting more and more people to come in and help, either on the board of directors or we get, on average, 35 coaches every year.
Speaker 3:We have awesome people coaching these kids and we're lucky to continue to have the support that helps coach our kids every year. Very good.
Speaker 1:Now, as we approach the 2025 season, what are some changes that you have for the new program?
Speaker 3:I think the good news is it's more of the same, which, honestly, it's something that works. We've got amazing volunteers, like I've said, I mean just today we were super efficient with the JOGS program. I actually love the jobs program, something very important to the program for the Giants itself and even to the community. I'm sure we'll talk about that a little bit. But overall, in terms of being field ready, where we're ready to go with an improved field, we've invested in a con-ax to help our storage. We've invested in the equipment shed to put a new roof and vinyl siding. That was a major investment to give us storage for our equipment and so that's something we did.
Speaker 4:Two years ago, and so we continue to help.
Speaker 3:in the house's view, our voice is random giants and you know, overall, though, it's just being being ready for our kids for home and away games. We just had equipment handout last night with a bunch of volunteers. So, honestly, the volunteers keep the program going and I'm lucky enough to be a part of them.
Speaker 1:Let's talk about your relationship with all the first responders police, fire and also the community members. How special has it been that the rain can't change everything a little bit, along with all elements of the school.
Speaker 3:I know that's not always true everywhere, so I think knowing that it makes it even more special. So Rain and Fire Police running the Jocs program, supporting us during game days with officers walking around. Chief wants them to be involved and supports the community. Rain and Fire has always supported us through various various ways as well. Um, they come here sometimes a week. Um, they, they always support us with um daily and game day. Uh, paramedics, which is super important to make sure our kids are safe on game day.
Speaker 3:Um, and you know our town, you know we're obviously working on on school property and you know our town, you know we're obviously working on school property.
Speaker 3:So park and rec commission is super important to us and you know we have a strong partnership with them that is give and take of both sides. And you know we're working on their permits and their fields and they support us by working on things like the field that we need. And so I think you know if we didn't have that, honestly, we couldn't run the program as we do. So I think if we didn't have that, honestly, we couldn't run the program as we do. So we're really lucky to have who we have and it's exciting to be able to partner with people that are important to us and also, honestly, they have a lot of role models in our community as well. So the presence of RPD and RFD at games, at jocks camp, at practices, is super important to me, but I think it's more important to the kids to show that the sport's there itself. Now for the people who are interested in joining the Grand Camp Giants.
Speaker 1:That never has been a part of the organization before, especially this year with the Mighty Mites team that is just coming in for the first time. We had low numbers last year. What advice would you give to them specifically if they want to play football and want to be a part of this career as a student and help them.
Speaker 3:Sure, we always welcome as many kids as possible. We've had a really steady number of registrations. We're right around 145 to 160 any given year. That was up from like 110, 120 a couple of years ago, so we've got to hit a bump bovid, and we've been able to sustain it.
Speaker 2:Uh, our mighty lights programming first and second graders mostly second graders they're really the lifeline of our program.
Speaker 3:They go through the next six years after that um. But we have our mics group, which is a healthy 40 or so number we got our research have around 40, 41 and our midgets this year, our seventh and eighth grade team, has about 46. Let's go, let's go, let's go. And our midgets this year, our seventh and eighth grade team, has about 46.
Speaker 4:Let's go, let's go let's go.
Speaker 3:What's up. So every year we get a good cycle of kids. We're right around 20 to 25 per class and we welcome new kids that join from town, that never played before, that want to play. You can start as a second grade, you can start as an eighth grader. We encourage you to play.
Speaker 3:You know the Giants is not just about football and stay creative with the energy of playing. You know the Giants is not just about football. And this is where you know why I joined and why I wanted to do the role that I'm doing. It's all about the kids in the community and whatever we can do to help them grow up the right way and teach them some structure and some discipline. You know that's all that matters to me, and we have to also go to football, which is fun and good for their physical fitness too, and good for their physical fitness too, but we are equally emotional and mental. I've been involved for seven years now, so I've coached for seven years, been president for this.
Speaker 3:My fourth and jocks is just an incredibly fun first week of football. Not a lot of programs around us have it and you know we're able to get out here on the field a week early. We're kind of rotating around with our grades and these kids are getting a first crack at some physical fitness. We can't control whatever kid does during the summer, but it's really fun that we have a chance to give them a week of somewhere to go, something to be excited about.
Speaker 3:I know when we found this thing, you know, decades ago, like that was his premise was give every kid something to look forward to, give them something to do for, you know, five, five, ten hours a week, um, and for me it's. It's. This is an interesting year. We're unfortunately not with Lou this year, um, but Lou was super excited to allow us to keep this thing going. We wanted to make sure that he was cool with it because he he started this thing. So this is fun for us to uh to continue it. So luckily we have uh Sgt Pachico and SRO Lang amazing people, amazing workers in the community, incredible role models.
Speaker 3:So we're lucky to have them leading it this year and, honestly, so far we're in great shape, Kind of hit the ground running, obviously not as smooth as Lou this year. We'll work through it, but Lou set us up to succeed and to me it's the unofficial start of the season, but we're just lucky to have 130 campers this year. We have about 110, 120 volunteers, which is absolutely amazing. So we've got over 80 high schoolers kids from Bridgewater, kids from Rainham, kids from some other towns as well. We got about 35 coaches, so we have an incredible amount of support. It's almost a one-to-one ratio, which is absolutely unheard of. I'm lucky that Nick is here.
Speaker 1:Now, let's hope it leads to so many people. Yes, sir, mr Ryan, thank you so much. Thank you, kyle, I appreciate it. Hello everybody, I'm here today with Mr Alejandro Ocampo, one of the coaches for the Ringham Giants. Alejandro, it's good to be with you. Thank you for joining us today. Thanks, brother. Thanks for having me, of course, today. As you can see, we're getting ready for Combine Day, and so I have to ask you what are some things that you're looking forward to today for Combine Day?
Speaker 4:Just watching these kids want to get after it. You know, they always seem to want to challenge themselves and keep going back to the stations where they just want to get a better time and stuff. So I think those are the things I like to see Now.
Speaker 1:I got to ask you what is your favorite moment of Combine Day, Because you have been here at Jocks Camp for about a couple of years now.
Speaker 4:I like the 40-yard dash, you know, I don't know why, it's just I guess I just like watching these kids just take off, you know, and Just take off, you know, and for some reason that's usually the top thing that they want to get better at.
Speaker 1:What are some tips that you can give to those people who want to participate in the plank off but they're not very good plankers?
Speaker 4:I would say just take it one second at a time. You know what I mean, Because that's what a plank is right. If you can hold a second more than the person who's going to come in second, you can win.
Speaker 1:Go Giants. Hello everybody, I'm here with Coach Ian Bain, the head coach of the Bridgewater Rainham Children's. Coach Bain, thank you for joining us. I know this is a great honor to be standing right in your presence today and talking to you, so I appreciate it very much.
Speaker 5:It's great to be here talking to you and checking out these kids playing ball today. It's been a great camp so far.
Speaker 1:What are some expectations that you have this year for the Bridgewater-Rainham Children's Football Team?
Speaker 5:Yeah, I mean it was a really good season last year, a lot of positives to build on, you know, six and five. There were some games too that we probably left on the table, but we won a playoff game. I think we represented both towns and our school really well. This year it's just about raising the standard a little bit more. You know, I think we've always had those high standards and those were communicated last year and the kids bought in.
Speaker 5:But having a year under our belts, sort of knowing how we do things, you know that we want to continue to make steps forward and then you know, with that it can be something to handle those expectations right. It's a lot easier when you're maybe under the radar a little bit or even an underdog, but when you start to have some success, you know a target could get painted on your back a little bit. You know, I don't think we're going to be somebody that walks into a stadium without a team really respecting who we are and the presence that our players will bring on the field on Friday. So but that takes a lot to handle too. So you know, as we grow and mature as young people in our program, we've got to sort of raise the level a little bit more to meet the outside perception of the Trojans Last year.
Speaker 5:You know it's the first year new coaching staff, new systems, not necessarily better or worse, it's just different, right. So you sort of go into it with an understanding that there's going to be some mistakes made, there's going to be a learning curve, there's gonna it might take longer to install in training camp and things like that, but as we get to year two like aside from the freshmen, everybody's back in the system. Everybody should be a little fresher with it. The learning process and learning curve should be a little more efficient. We should be able to maximize our time in the building and in the facility when we get there on Friday the 15th and you know, understanding to having a better idea when we watch film, like what are we looking for?
Speaker 5:We've seen this concept before, we've seen this defense before and we should be able to perform and execute it at a higher level. So I think that's a big part of it. And then you know, I think also physically, the development of our players. Over the last 12 months they've really grown a lot, physically, mentally, mature. So I think that's going to allow us to do some different things, and maybe a year ago we weren't quite there yet with the physicality we needed or the execution we needed, but I think we're able to do some things better as a team, and so that's part of those expectations being raised as well.
Speaker 1:Now I know you have written a book before called Protecting the Run Game. Yeah, so for the people who are out there that haven't read the book yet, what is it all about and what does it entail?
Speaker 5:The book was actually just kind of written, something I just wanted to do. I like speaking at clinics and stuff. I like talking football and basically the book is about everybody. Everybody knows what the run game is. Right, turn around, hand the ball and running back uh, you can be really successful doing that. A lot of teams have done that. Uh, you know we do that plenty also.
Speaker 5:But there's a lot that goes into it to make sure that when a team loads up to stop your best plays, you know what are some things that you have. So so in our program we do a lot of run, pass options, rpos, and we have a lot of different kind of buckets. We'll put those in, you know, first level, second level, third level. Then obviously we have like play, action, pass and screen game. So that's really what that book's about. It's just kind of some ways that we'll take some of our favorite runs and how we categorize them and then when a team starts to maybe defend you a certain way, you know here's some wrinkles you could throw and just to kind of help keep them honest and keep them from overloading or over pursuing your best plays, and if they do all right, then do this and that's kind of. That's kind of what it's about.
Speaker 1:Is there any plays that you take specifically from the book that you use for the children's offense?
Speaker 5:I mean, everything in the book is something that we've done at some point. You know, maybe we haven't done all of them at VR, but okay. But for example, there might be a linebacker in a game and he's flowing really fast. We're having a hard time getting to him blocking the second level. So what we might do is read him and so if he scrapes over to pursue our running back, the quarterback will pull it and maybe throw a slant behind it and it's just something like that.
Speaker 5:Like you know, back in the 80s or 70s you know they might run triple options kind of with the same effect.
Speaker 5:It's really the same idea, it's the same premise, it's just a different way to get there. So instead of pulling the ball running and pitching it backwards, we're gonna pull the ball, keep our quarterback from getting hit and throw the ball downfield and it's allowed us to have some explosive plays but also maybe slow down that really good linebacker or maybe, maybe there's a safety that comes down out of the box and we can hit a post right behind them. You know, against Algonquin I think we scored three times on the same play. It was a run, but you know Jack would throw it and throw a five-step glance post behind it when the safety came into the box. So that's really kind of what that RPO system is about and there's so many ways to do it, but it's kind of the. You see it a lot on Saturdays and even Sundays now, and and we've had a lot of luck running it from back when I started at Franklin in 2016, before that at Framingham State and then and then now here at BR.
Speaker 1:That's very good. Now, just to touch up on your experience over at Franklin, I have to ask you what are some things that you know has changed for you from the time that you were at Franklin all the way to BR?
Speaker 5:Yeah, I mean I think the number one thing is the commute and just being a part of the community. I mean I felt like I was always embraced in Franklin. Don't get me wrong. It's a wonderful place. I love my experience there and the people there, but I don't live there, you know. So, like kind of when you kind of punch out for the day and drive home one, it's a 40 minute drive give or take, but then I'm either sort of that they're there, I'm over here, type of thing, and what's a little different here.
Speaker 5:The biggest change is, you know, when I go to the grocery store I see parents, I see alumni, I see players. You know my son's here at this camp. I couldn't send him to camps up in Franklin, you know, or I could, but it's just too hard with the family dynamic being separated. It's kind of nice. You could go to Coach Al's basketball camp and I'm in the weight room right next door so I can go out and check out the camp. Coach Al does a great job, pick them up at 12. I can come home for lunch if I need to go back to the school. So I really like that. My kids get to be involved in games and training camp and all the practices, if my practices. You know, if my wife has an appointment after school she can bring the kids to practice, so that kind of thing. I'm more involved in the community piece here where I never got to enjoy that at Franklin as much as I wanted to.
Speaker 1:It's wonderful and it's very evident as to the reason why you are here today at jocks camp. So I have to ask you, just being around here as you're seeing your players helping out, you know, with jocks camp this week, you week Does that speak a lot of volume as to maybe your coaching philosophy it does, and the morals that you have it?
Speaker 5:does. And I think, just to look at this camp and what it is, when Coach Pachinko ran it for all those years, there's a reason all these kids come back. It obviously had a really good impression on them and I think we try to kind of keep a similar idea, where we want our kids to be involved in the community, we want them to give back. You know we talk about when we develop our athletes. We want to develop them academically, athletically, socially and spiritually. And the spiritual piece isn't really about, like religion it could be, but it's really about giving back and being about something bigger than yourself, and that's what this is Like.
Speaker 5:If you're here volunteering, this is bigger than just you as an individual. It's even bigger than BR. This is about this whole community. You know, not every kid here is going to play high school football. Some of these kids won't even go to BR. Some of these kids might not play for the Giants, but you're here, you're giving your time, you're trying to inspire them and I think that's a really good example that was set with Coach Pachico and the way that this camp was run and the way he coached at BR, and it's definitely a part of our vision with our culture at BR as well. So I'm glad that we're able to continue that really positive way that our kids engage the community and the kids in our towns Very good.
Speaker 1:Then just a final question for you here today. We see this a lot on Twitter. You write the term row the boat, yeah, so you know? Obviously not, I did your homework.
Speaker 2:I know right.
Speaker 1:Obviously, I don't know the term personally, but to those who are not very familiar with you know the term Roll the Boat. What does it pertain to you and how does it pertain to the players and the coaching staff at Bridgewater Rainham as well?
Speaker 5:Sure Well, I didn't invent Roll the Boat. It's something that comes from dealing with a great adverse situation in your life. You know, my wife and I went through some things losing a child in 2017, which was really tough, and our son, michael, was in the NICU same you know they were twins was in NICU for four months, and there's a coach out in Minnesota named PJ Fleck. He and his wife also lost a child prior, so he had created this row the boat mentality, culture, mantra as a never give up mindset. It's really about you know the oar. That's your energy, that's what you bring to the table. You keep your oar in the water. You keep moving right.
Speaker 5:When you row, your back is to the future, so you really don't know what's ahead of you. You can look at the past and learn from it when you're in the boat. The boat is your vessel, so the more people you can get on board, the easier that row is going to become right. Hard to go across the Atlantic by yourself, but you get a big ship, like a big Viking ship. You can cruise across the Atlantic pretty easy if everybody's rowing in the same direction, moving in the same direction.
Speaker 5:And lastly, how do you know you're going in the right direction. That's the compass. And you know, if you take that long journey, being off just a degree or two, you're hundreds of miles from your destination. So you know what we tried to do as a family, like coach Fleck did at Western Michigan and then Minnesota is take something that was a very difficult moment and as best we could use it as a positive and use it as something that we could take with our family and give back and contribute and you know so Row the Boat. That's really what it's about. It's not just about football. It's really about just never giving up, always working forward to something. And you know you got to keep your own in the water and you know it came from a time it was really tough and then we just try to adapt it now every day.
Speaker 1:You know, you just finished your first jocks camp, Congratulations, thank you so? Much. How do you feel?
Speaker 3:I feel great. It was a success. We've been talking to a ton of the parents. We've been talking to the kids, the players, the volunteers, everyone out here. Everyone had a fun time. I didn't hear any complaints. I was really successful and very happy about it.
Speaker 1:Now I have to ask you what are some key takeaways that you got from the last, probably from day one all the way to now? Where did you get the most out of being your first time running this jocks camp?
Speaker 3:you get the most out of you know being, you know, your first time running this jocks camp. I put a lot of faith in all the volunteers and it paid off. We have so many helpers out here and they knocked it out of the park. You know all the kids in high school that came out to help out that some of them, you know, maybe they've never even played football and they came out and they've been doing awesome coaching the kids. So that's the biggest thing I've noticed out here so far. You know the kids we got. We got awards for 40 yard dash. We got you know, the plank off. We got awards for almost everything out here. So I love it. It shows. It shows some of the skill set some of these kids have that's. So you know, maybe you're not the fastest kid, but you did something else great, so it's. And we got campers of the week, stuff like that. So yeah, I I'm very, very proud of all these kids. They worked hard all week and they deserve these awards?
Speaker 1:What are some goals that you have for next year's Sharks camp, because it's going to be here like less than 365 days from now?
Speaker 3:I think we have a great product here and it's going to be tough to improve on it. We did so well.
Speaker 1:And please stay with us here on the Rainham channel throughout this football season as we provide you the BR football updates along with some of our Rainham Giants games this year, which is a brand new addition. So stay tuned for that. But thank you all so much for joining us and we hope to see you this fall.