Monthly Archives: July 2010
Checking in
The fan experience at Bing Training Camp all starts at the Landing in Renton, and today workers are putting the finishing touches on the Seahawks headquarters at the shopping center. Taking up an entire vacant storefront, the fan check-in for Bing Training Camp practices will feature six lines that will shuffle through to high-tech computerized [...]
On the number
Groundskeeper Sergio Pedroza applies the final coat of paint on the Virginia Mason Athletic Center practice fields today, with less than 24 hours to go before the Seahawks open Bing Training Camp 2010 with a workout at 9 a.m.
Getting physical
The training camp process has begun at Virginia Mason Athletic Center. Players are going through physicals all day with team doctors and trainers, churning through medical, orthopedic, movement and flexibility tests, along with recording the basic height and weight numbers. All in all, the important, annual procedure takes about 30 minutes to complete.
All about practice
The coaches made like Allen Iverson during this morning’s staff meeting. They were talking ’bout practice. Coach Pete Carroll led a spirited discussion about the team’s philosophies for practice, declaring the workouts — which all start with a two-a-day on Saturday — the “ultimate competitive experience for us.” “Practice is everything for us, because that’s [...]
Football, fun ‘n food
If you open training camp practices to fans, they will come – and they might get hungry. Two Snack Shacks will offer, well, snacks starting Saturday morning when the Seahawks kickoff Bing Training Camp. Fifteen practices are open to the public and space is still available for each. You can register here. The menu at [...]
Conditioned response
NFL conditioning tests have been in the news quite a bit lately. But what exactly does that test consist of? Every team does it differently, but the Seahawks will hold a short fitness exam at 3 p.m. today that will be composed of 20 reps of 40-, 50- or 60-yard dashes, depending on position, with [...]
Let’s get it started
The first practice of Bing Training Camp 2010 isn’t for another 24 hours, but the fun truly begins today at Virginia Mason Athletic Center. It’s reporting day for the Seahawks, as players will take physicals throughout the morning and afternoon before a conditioning test at 3 p.m. and meetings beginning at 4 p.m. Check out [...]
You can put it on the board
Consider it Pete Carroll’s new toy. And as a result, the Seahawks head coach is giddy with excitement. Workers installed a 16-by-24-foot scoreboard on the northeast corner of the Virginia Mason Athletic Center practice fields today, fulfilling one of Carroll’s off-field wishes for the 2010 season. The massive black scoreboard — which is adorned with [...]
Watching paint dry
The clock’s winding down toward Bing Training Camp 2010 — about 42 hours remain until the first practice — and the fields workers are putting the finishing touches on the turf today, including painting logos that’ll adorn the grass for the duration of camp. Take a look: Groundskeepers remove the stencil on the Bing logo [...]
Spectator sport
Workers have constructed fencing around the grass berm to encircle the fan area during Bing Training Camp practices. Register here to attend one of the 15 open workouts at Virginia Mason Athletic Center during the next two-plus weeks, starting with two practices on Saturday.
