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Ohio State’s football players were coaches for a day on Friday.
Less than two weeks before the Buckeyes return to the field for their first practices of preseason camp, the Ohio State football team welcomed 175 athletes with special needs to the Woody Hayes Athletic Center on Friday to participate in the Special Skills Football Invitational.
While the camp has now been held at the WHAC for a dozen years with Ohio State football players serving as coaches each year, Friday was the first time the entire football team turned out for the event, as 110 Buckeyes were on hand to coach the campers through various drills and take pictures and autographs.
Ohio State football players are coaching at the annual Special Skills Football Invitational at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center. pic.twitter.com/BDVOyosMEe
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The event served as an opportunity for the Buckeyes to give back to the community and as a reminder of just how fun football can be.
“It just makes your day a lot better,” Ohio State left guard Luke Montgomery said of coaching at the camp. “They're awesome, they're having so much fun and just to be able to be a part of it is such a blessing ... Sports are supposed to be so much fun, and we're out here having fun, laughing, smiling, and we're playing football. I don't know if you get a better day than that.”
Following the camp, Eleven Warriors caught up with a half-dozen Buckeyes – Montgomery, quarterbacks Julian Sayin and Lincoln Kienholz and defensive linemen Beau Atkinson, Eddrick Houston and Kayden McDonald – to check in on how their preparation for the 2025 season has gone this summer. You can watch all of those interviews in the videos below.
