Storm open training camp Monday

Posted Mar 9, 2010 by Adam Adkins

Updated Mar 9, 2010 at 03:22 PM

The Tampa Bay Storm will begin preparations for the 2010 Arena Football League season on Monday when the team opens training camp.

The squad will hold two 90-minute workouts per day beginning Monday, one beginning at 8 a.m. and the other at 10 a.m., through March 25. Most training camp workouts will be held at Skyway Park in Tampa. The team will play its only preseason game at home against the Orlando Predators on March 26.

The Strom will enter training camp with 35 players and must have the roster trimmed to 23 by March 29. Tampa Bay opens the regular season at the Tulsa Talons on April 3.

Here is a breakdown, provided by the team’s media relations department, on who the Storm will differ from the last team Tampa Bay had on the field before the original AFL folded:

Returnees
(college in parenthesis)
OL Emmanuel Akah (Winston Salem St.), DB Daryon Brutley (Northern Iowa), QB Brett Dietz (Hanover), DL Cliff Dukes (Michigan State), WR Hank Edwards (Texas Southern), DB Byron Jones (Texas A&M), OL Tom Kaleita (Eastern Michigan), DB Reggie Lewis (Florida), DL Tim McGill (Illinois), LB Terrence Royal (South Florida), WR Tyrone Timmons (Mississippi Valley State)

Departures
On defense: DB Jeroid Johnson (Oklahoma State), DB Tracho Rachal Texas A&M-Commerce), DB Rayshun Reed (Troy), DL Tom Briggs (West Virginia), DL Ernest Certain (FAMU), LB Torrance Marshall (Oklahoma), LB Nyle Wiren (Kansas State)

On offense: OL Damion Cook (Bethune-Cookman), OL Geir Gudmundsen (Albany State), OL Kenyatta Jones (South Florida), K Seth Marler (Tulane), FB Phil Glover (Utah), QB Stoney Case (New Mexico), WR Henry Douglas (North Carolina A&T), WR Sedrick Robinson (Kentucky Wesleyan), WR Terrill Shaw (Southern Miss)

Acquisitions
On defense: DB Brandon Hefflin (Toledo), Anthony Ivy (UT-Martin), DB James McCoy (North Carolina A&T), DL Alfred Peterson (Rutgers), DL Jermaine Smith (Georgia), LB James Bear (Western Kentucky), LB Cole Mason (West Alabama), LB Eric Ortiz (Belhaven University)

On offense: FB Chad Cook (Murray State), K Garret Rivas (Michigan), OL Dennis Conley (Hampton), OL Cornelius Fuamatu (Nebraska), OL Robert Powell (Purdue), QB BJ Hall (Webber), WR Reggie Gray (Western Illinois), WR Frantz Hardy (Nebraska), WR Paul Raymond (Brown), WR John Roberson (Texas A&M), WR Talon Saint-Michaels (Navy), WR DeAngelo Woodie (None)