Football Camps Page

2026 Senior Showcase – Register Now!

Dates: Saturday, February 28, 2026 | 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Cost: $40 Per Person
Ages: Open to high school student-athletes in the class of 2026 or 2027.
Contact: John Grinde | jgrinde@fortlewis.edu
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Showcase Camp, Junior Day & Spring Game – Register Now!

Dates: Saturday, April 18, 2026 | 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Cost: $40 Per Person
Ages: Open to high school student-athletes in the class of 2026 or 2027.
Contact: John Grinde | jgrinde@fortlewis.edu
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7v7 Tournament – Registration Coming Soon!

Dates: May 23, 2026 | 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Cost: $300 Per Team
Ages: All High School Teams
Contact: John Grinde | jgrinde@fortlewis.edu
Description: Come see if you have what it takes against the best! Compete against 7's teams from all over the Southwest Region and play a high level of competition of all class sizes!
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Big Man Camp – Registration Coming Soon!

Dates: May 23, 2026 | 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Cost: $40 Per Person

Ages: All High School/U15 Teams
Equipment: Cleats, Shoulder pads, Helmet, & Mouthpiece.
Contact: John Grinde | jgrinde@fortlewis.edu

Description: Come see if you have what it takes against the best! Compete against other linemen from all over the Southwest Region and play a high level of competition of all class sizes!
Registration Coming Soon!

Elite Prospect Camp – Durango – Registration Coming Soon!

Dates: July 6, 2026 | 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM (All Positions)

Cost: $40 Per Person

Ages: Rising sophomore and up (class of 2026, 2027, 2028)
Equipment: Cleats, Shoulder pads, Helmet, & Mouthpiece.
Contact: John Grinde | jgrinde@fortlewis.edu
Description: Come get evaluated by our entire coaching staff in a one-day ELITE Prospect Camp. You will be able to showcase your skills athletically and experience beautiful Durango, Colorado! Competition drives improvement, and this is a great opportunity to compete with the best!
Registration Coming Soon!

QB-WR-DB Academy – Registration Coming Soon!
Dates: July 6-8, 2026 | 7:00 PM Monday - 11:00 AM Wednesday

Cost: $215 Per Overnight Player - Dorm/Meals Provided | $115 Per Commuting Camper - LUNCH ONLY

Ages: High School Classes of 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028
Contact: John Grinde | jgrinde@fortlewis.edu
Description: Come learn from the best! You will get to experience what it takes to be a Quarterback & Wide Receiver at the College Level. Film-watching techniques, Fundamentals, and keys to being an elite-level Leader!

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Youth Camp – Registration Coming Soon!

Dates: July 9, 2026 | 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Cost: $75 Per Camper
Ages: 6-13
Contact: John Grinde | jgrinde@fortlewis.edu
Description: Come have a fun-filled day with the Fort Lewis Skyhawks Football Team! We will learn the fundamentals of playing football, get to meet the Skyhawk Football Players, and learn what college football is all about while developing Skills!
Registration Coming Soon!

Adult College Football Experience Camp – Details and Registration Coming Soon!

Dates: July 10-12, 2026
Cost: To Be Determined!
Ages: To Be Determined!
Contact: John Grinde | jgrinde@fortlewis.edu
Description: Details Coming Soon!
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Nike Contact Camp – Registration Coming Soon!

Dates: July 12-15, 2026 | Sunday 1:00 PM through Wednesday 12:00 PM

Ages: High School Classes of 2026-29
Equipment: Full Padded Camp, No Rental Equipment Available
Contact: John Grinde | jgrinde@fortlewis.edu
Description: Come see if you have what it takes against the best! Compete against others from all over the Southwest Region and play a high level of competition across all class sizes!
Registration Coming Soon!

Elite Prospect Camp – Colorado Springs – Registration Coming Soon!

Dates: July 17, 2026 | 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM (All Positions)
Location: To Be Determined!

Cost: $40 Per Person

Ages: Rising sophomore and up (class of 2026-28)
Equipment: Cleats, Shoulder pads, Helmet, & Mouthpiece.
Contact: John Grinde | jgrinde@fortlewis.edu

Description: Come get evaluated by our entire coaching staff in a one-day ELITE Prospect Camp at Sierra High School in the Colorado Springs Area! You will be able to showcase your skills athletically and experience coaching from all our staff! Competition drives improvement, and this is a great opportunity to compete with the best!
Registration Coming Soon!

Morning Elite Prospect Camp – Denver – Registration Coming Soon!

Dates: July 18, 2026 | 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM (All Positions)
Location: To Be Determined!
Cost: $40 Per Person

Ages: Rising sophomore and up (class of 2026-28)
Equipment: Cleats, Shoulder pads, Helmet, & Mouthpiece.
Contact: John Grinde | jgrinde@fortlewis.edu

Description: Come get evaluated by our entire coaching staff in a one-day ELITE Prospect Camp at Smoky Hill High School in Aurora, Colorado! You will be able to showcase your skills athletically and experience coaching from all our staff! Competition drives improvement, and this is a great opportunity to compete with the best!
Registration Coming Soon!

Evening Elite Prospect Camp – Denver/Westminster – Registration Coming Soon!

Dates: July 18, 2026 | 3:00 PM - 7:00 PM (All Positions)
Location: To be Determined!

Cost: $40 Per Person

Ages: Rising sophomore and up (class of 2026-28)
Equipment: Cleats, Shoulder pads, Helmet, & Mouthpiece.
Contact: John Grinde | jgrinde@fortlewis.edu
Description: Come get evaluated by our entire coaching staff in a one-day ELITE Prospect Camp at Westminster High School! You will be able to showcase your skills athletically and experience coaching from all our staff! Competition drives improvement, and this is a great opportunity to compete with the best!
Registration Coming Soon!

Girls Flag Football Camp – Details and Registration Coming Soon!

Dates: July 19, 2026
Cost: To Be Determined!
Ages: To Be Determined!
Contact: John Grinde | jgrinde@fortlewis.edu
Description: Details Coming Soon!
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Four Corners Team Camps – 2026 Details Coming Soon!
Dates: Team Camp #1: June 2-4, 2025 | Team Camp #2: July 11-13, 2025
Times: Monday @ 1:00 PM - Wednesday @ 11:30 AM

Cost: $215 per overnight camper (dorms and meals provided) | $115 per commuter camper (lunch only)

Ages: High School Classes of 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028
Equipment: Full padded camp
Contact: John Grinde | jgrinde@fortlewis.edu
Description: Come experience a fast, physical, competitive team camp in beautiful Durango, Colorado. We provide an opportunity for your team to grow not only physically on the field, but also in building a team bond! You will have the chance to compete with schools of all class sizes from all over the southwest region. Varsity squads are required, but junior varsity and freshmen squads will have opportunities to compete against similar competition as well.
Team Camp #1 Registration: Registration Coming Soon!
Team Camp #2 Registration: Registration Coming Soon!

Johnny Cox – Head Football Coach

Office: (970) 247-7572 • Email: jcox@fortlewis.edu

Johnny Cox, one of Fort Lewis College’s all-time greats, looks to maintain the Skyhawks upward trend in his fourth season in the fall of 2025. Hired as the 16^th head coach in program history, Cox returned to Durango on Jan. 10, 2022, to rebuild his Alma mater into a quality program within the daunting Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference.

The 2024 season was a turning point for Fort Lewis as Cox guided the program to a 3-8 overall record and a 2-7 mark against RMAC competition and snapped the then-longest losing streak in college football at 40 games. The Skyhawks got back on track with a win over Arizona Christian (Sept. 14) before later handling Adams State (Nov. 2) and New Mexico Highlands (Nov. 9) on back-to-back weekends to earn the program’s first conference wins since 2019. In addition, Fort Lewis finished in seventh place in the RMAC among ten conference teams.

Since his arrival, Cox has emphasized student-athlete success both on and off the field and saw 18 Skyhawks named to the RMAC Academic Honor Roll and 24 Skyhawks to the National Football Foundation Colorado Chapter (NFFCC) Academic All-Colorado team in 2024. Four players then advanced to earn College Sports Communicators Academic All-District honors. On the gridiron, however, Fort Lewis boasted two Second-Team All-RMAC selections in Jacob Penney (LB) and Orlando Guevara (KR). Penney finished fifth in NCAA Division II with 122 total tackles (11.1 tackles per game), while Guevara finished second in the RMAC and 34^th in DII with 536 return yards and owned one of nine 99+ yard kickoff returns for a touchdown in the nation. The duo later earned First-Team All-Colorado honors from the NFFCC. Jacob LaCroix (OL), Cheilotam Udengwu (OL), Kalib Davis (FS), and Hunter Villavicenio (P) were all named Honorable Mention All-RMAC as well.

In his second season with Fort Lewis in 2023, the Skyhawks improved in various statistical categories across the board including rushing yards per game (+21.7), passing yards per game (+52.31), total offense (+74.1), posted six games with 300+ yards of total offense for the first time since 2016, and scored the most points in a single season since 2018 with 146.

Cox coached two-year Skyhawk Braden Wingle (QB) to one of the most statistically significant careers at Fort Lewis as Wingle hung up his cleats ranking eighth all-time in career passing yards (3,724), first in average yards per pass (9.7), second in career completion percentage (59.5%), sixth in completions (384), and seventh in attempts (645).

Fort Lewis saw Villavicencio (P) capture Second-Team All-National Football Foundation Colorado Chapter honors: he's the first to secure any such honor since 2018. Villavicenio was also named Second-Team All-RMAC, while Peyton Monson (WR) and Lacroix (OL) each earned an All-RMAC honorable mention. In addition, nine Skyhawks were tabbed with RMAC Academic Honor Roll nods, while Julio Romo (OL) and Tristen Williams (LB) were named to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Team.

In 2022, Fort Lewis improved its total offense by 42.9 yards per game under the direction of Cox and his new coaching staff's offensive scheme. Most notably, Max Hyson (DE) – a First-Team Academic All-RMAC selection – was named the NFFCC All-Colorado Scholar-Athlete of the Year over Colorado football athletes across the Division I and Division II landscape, including 2022 Harlon Hill Award Winner John Matocha from Colorado School of Mines.

17 additional Skyhawks earned Academic All-Colorado honors in 2022 alongside Hyson. Fort Lewis also captured three All-RMAC Honorable Mentions through the regular season, including Ryan Barkley (OL), Dylan Holt (WR), and Zach Russell (TE). Three additional Skyhawks were named to the RMAC Academic Honor Roll: Barkley, Williams, and Matthew Waid (P).

A 28-year coaching veteran, Cox is a 1994 graduate and two-time All-American at FLC. He rejoins the Skyhawks after spending eight seasons at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, an NCAA Division II program competing in the Mountain East Conference.

Inducted into the FLC Athletics Hall of Fame in 1999, Cox was a four-year star for FLC at the wide receiver position from 1990-93. Cox earned First Team All-American honors in 1992 and 1993 while being named the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC) Player of the Year for the 1993 season.

Cox still owns FLC school records in receiving yards (3,611) and receiving touchdowns (33), while his 220 career catches are the second most in program history. His dominance on the field made him a two-time finalist for the Harlan Hill Trophy, which is awarded to the best player in NCAA Division II football.

He continued his playing career in 1994-95 when he was invited to training camp with the Green Bay Packers in 1994. Cox also played one season with the Orlando Predators of the Arena Football League in 1995.

It was during that time when Cox also got his coaching career off the ground as he served as the defensive backs coach at FLC in 1994. After earning his master's degree and serving as a graduate assistant at the University of Texas from 1997-99, Cox returned to FLC to serve as the offensive coordinator in 1999 and interim head coach in 2000.

Following a four-year stint as an assistant coach at North Dakota State, Cox served four seasons (2000-03) as head coach at Rex Putnam High School in Milwaukie, Oregon, before making his return to the college ranks as special teams coordinator and wide receivers coach at Holy Cross for the 2007 season.

Cox made his NFL coaching debut as a part of former Dallas Cowboys defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin's defensive staff (quality control) with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for the 2008 season. He also spent time as both the wide receivers and offensive quality control coach for the Jacksonville Jaguars under defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio's staff from 2009-11.

Following a two-year stop at North Carolina A&T as the wide receivers coach and recruiting coordinator, Cox began his time at UNC Pembroke in 2014 as the offensive coordinator and, most recently, as the Braves' associate head coach.

The Braves made tremendous strides during Cox's tenure, going from a 2-8 overall record in 2014 to posting a record of 10-2 overall in 2016. UNCP set school records in wins, was ranked as high as No. 12 in the country, and won the program's first-ever playoff game that season en route to reaching the second round of the NCAA Division II playoffs.

Born February 5, 1972, Cox graduated from Fort Lewis College with his Bachelor of Arts in Exercise Science before later completing his Master of Science in Kinesiology at the University of Texas in 2000.

John Grinde – Offensive Coordinator & Skyhawks Football Camps Contact

Office: (970) 247-7248 • Email: jgrinde@fortlewis.edu
John Grinde is heading into his fourth season as the offensive coordinator for Fort Lewis College in 2025. Grinde joined the Skyhawks in 2022 after spending two seasons as the Offensive Coordinator at Hastings College in Hastings, Nebraska.

Skyhawks football turned a corner in 2024, as the program earned a 3-8 overall record and a 2-7 mark against RMAC competition. Fort Lewis got back on track with a win over Arizona Christian (Sept. 14) before later handling Adams State (Nov. 2) and New Mexico Highlands (Nov. 9) on back-to-back weekends to earn the program’s first conference wins since 2019. In addition, Fort Lewis finished in seventh place in the RMAC among ten conference teams.

The offense took a more balanced approach last year, improving its rushing game to 125.8 yards/game from its 65.5 yards/game the year prior. While the passing game supplied 154.6 yards/game, down 68.3 yards from the year before, the balanced approach maintained 280.5 yards of offense per game, leading to 201 total points (18.27 pts/game), the most for the program since 2018. Senior Jacob LaCroix (OL) and sophomore Cheilotam Udengwu (OL) were key figures up front for Fort Lewis, and the duo were rewarded with their second and first nods, respectively, to the All-RMAC Honorable Mention teams.

Fort Lewis' offense showed glimpses of its old self in 2023 as the Skyhawks tallied 300 or more yards of offense on six occasions for the first time since 2016 and scored the most points in a season since 2018 with 146. At the line of scrimmage, FLC improved in key offense metrics, including rushing yards per game (+21.7), passing yards per game (+52.31), and yards of total offense per game (+74.1).

Grinde's guidance in the trenches lifted LaCroix to his first All-RMAC Honorable Mention on the offensive line after losing three-year conference veteran and 2022 All-RMAC Honorable Mention Ryan Barkley. In addition, senior Peyton Monson (WR) also received an All-RMAC Honorable Mention nod. With Grinde's protection at the line, senior Braden Wingle (QB) was able to throw for the fifth-most yards (2,276) and completions (207) in the league.

Senior Julio Romo (OL) was also named to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Team; Romo – alongside linebacker Tristen Williams – was not only the Skyhawks first All-District honoree since 2011 but the first offensive lineman since 2003 to earn any Academic All-District/Region honor.

In 2022, Grinde's offense helped Fort Lewis improve its total offense by 42.9 yards per game and provided all three of the Skyhawks' All-RMAC Honorable Mention award winners: Zach Russell (TE), Ryan Barkley (OL), and Dylan Holt (WR).

Grinde has previous working experience with FLC head football coach Johnny Cox from their time together at UNC Pembroke (2016-2020). During his time with UNC Pembroke, Grinde coached seven All-Conference Academic Honor Roll recipients, an All-American while helping guide the team to the 2016 NCAA DII playoffs, making it to the second round.

As a graduate assistant at the University of Central Missouri, where he helped coach the offensive line, tight ends, and running backs over three years, he saw plenty of success with an appearance in the Live United Texarkana Bowl, along with coaching two All-Region and All-American performers.

Grinde brings a wealth of experience, having coached four different positions while also competing in the NCAA DII playoffs as a wide receiver at the University of Central Missouri. He knows the game very well and also comes from a quality football background as his father is a former college offensive line coach and is currently the Head Football Coach at Air Academy High School in Colorado Springs, CO.

A four-year dean’s list honoree, Grinde earned his bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology from Central Missouri and went on to earn his master’s degree in Kinesiology from UCM in 2015.

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