Trey’Dez Green holds football camp
BY JACKSON REYES
Staff writer
LSU’s Trey’Dez Green grew up just 45 seconds from East Feliciana High School. He remembered walking down the street to school.
He takes pride in being from Jackson, Louisiana, and representing the community Following his sophomore season, Green got the opportunity to give back with a youth football camp he held at East Feliciana High earlier this month.
The camp was free for kids aged 6 through 14 years old
“It means a lot to me,” Green said. “Being from here, being from the state
of Louisiana, and being from the city of Jackson. The turnout was amazing, everybody came out and supported me and I’m thankful for everybody.”
Green had wanted to do a youth camp since he joined LSU as a freshman two years ago. Entering his junior year, he felt he had the resources to put a camp together
“We got the resources to do it, why not give back to the community that has just pushed me and poured so much into me,” he said.
He described the full circle moment of hosting a football camp at the same place he was once a student, playing high school football.
“I have never thought that I would be
out here,” Green said. “Just be a leader for this community I just want the kids to know that they can too, minus all the haters and the doubters that tell them that they can’t.”
Green, who graduated from Zachary High, wanted the kids at the camp to see that they can also make a name for themselves and represent the East Feliciana community He loved what he saw from the kids at the camp.
“We’ve got some dogs out here at East Feliciana,” Green said. “For all the coaches out there listening, come down and check us out.”
The camp included position drills, skills tests like races, and one-on-one drills between receivers and defensive
backs. Green enjoyed seeing the effort shown by the kids.
“I saw the grit and the will to want,” he said. “They could’ve used their free will and come out here and half-sprinted, not jogged, not been intent, but they came out here and gave 110%.
“That’s all we just ask for,” he continued. “They were amazing. I love to see the smiles on their face. They made my day.”
He hopes to keep the camp going as an annual event in the summer Green wants to keep giving back to the community that poured into him and pushed him to be great.
Let’s catch up on Zachary summer sports
After a too-short summer break where I hiked the Colorado Rockies in zero percent humidity and temperatures that rarely got over 80 degrees, I returned to the heat and rain that I ignorantly thought would have eased
So what has been happening while I have been gone with Zachary’s sports, and what is going on around Zachary as we collectively fight the heat and flooding conditions?
Future Bronco youth have been jumping, shooting, spiking and running in summer sports camps. The most recent summer camp was the Zachary High youth wrestling sum-
mer camp hosted by coach Ben McHugh, staff and current female and male wrestlers. Earlier this month, the ZHS wrestling team hosted and participated in the Jeff Ragan Wrestling Camp. Former Bronco track and football, and LSU track star
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After a short break, the 2026 Zachary High football team has begun off-season workouts under the tutelage of strength and conditioning coach Richard Johnson. Johnson will be working with all Zachary athletes and enters his second year overseeing the program.
Johnson has worked at all levels from defensive coordinator and strength coach at Northwestern Middle School (yes the one in Zachary) to working as a strength and conditioning coach at Southern, Prairie View A&M, University of
Rhode Island and University of Maine where he has worked with athletes in multiple sports.
Johnson has also interned or apprenticed as a strength and conditioning coach at Springfield College, Auburn, Georgia Tech and Georgia State. Johnson’s wife, Morgan, is a kindergarten teacher at Northwestern Elementary School.
Out at the Zachary Youth Park, Gordon “Pee-Wee” LeBlanc and staff continue to host tournaments every weekend with softball games during
Zachary FFA delivers Relief Buckets
aid kit, socks, toothbrushes, Liquid IV and a blanket. Mayor McDavid McDavid expressed his appreciation for their generosity and commitment to service, noting that they are living out their FFA motto, “Living
by giving back and helping others in times of need.
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Stephens, emergency preparedness director; from left, Mayor David McDavid; and Zachary FFA
President Carly Bozeman and FFA
Erica Mayes with relief buckets prepared by FFA members.
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LSU tight end Trey’Dez Green talks to kids at the youth football camp he held at East Feliciana High School on June 13.
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LSU tight end Trey’Dez Green talks to kids at the youth football camp he held at East Feliciana High School on June 13.
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Two players run through a running back drill at a youth football camp held by LSU tight end Trey’Dez Green.
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LSU tight end Trey’Dez Green celebrated with a player at the youth football camp he held at East Feliciana High School on June 13.
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the week. LeBlanc notes that “halfway through 2026, Zachary Youth Park has already had a very successful year.” The park has hosted more than 20 successful tournaments this year and will continue mixing softball and baseball events through November The work and activities
at the Zachary Youth Park go beyond games. On May 27, the Zachary Youth Park partnered with Feed the Children, the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank and the Popeyes Foundation to provide $125,000 worth of food and personal care items to 400 families facing food insecurity in the Zachary Area. Upcoming summer events at the park include: n Boys Legendz baseball tryouts, June 22-25, June 29-30 and July 1-2 on Field 2 from 5 p.m.- 9 p.m. for ages
6U-14U;
n USSSA Girls Collegiate Showcase, June 26-28
n Girls Legendz softball tryouts, June 25 and June 30 on Field 9 from 4 p.m. 9 p.m.
n Summer girls’ recreational softball league games July 6-Aug. 7. The league will include four 8U teams and six combined 9U/12U teams n Fall baseball registration for boys will start July 6 and extend through July 31. Registration is $75 and prac-
tice starts Aug. 10th. The fall season runs from Aug. 24 through Sept 25
n Registration for fall coed softball and men’s senior softball from Aug. 4-20.
Warren Brady covers sports for the Advocate/ Plainsman. To contact Brady, email zachary@ theadvocate.com.
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Hosted by the Baker Lions Club, the banquet celebrates the chartering of the Zachary club. For tickets or information, contact Sherri Collins, (225) 916-6542 or cortellia914@gmail.com, or Gloria Johnson, (225) 937-2868 or gharrj@bellsouth.net.
Community outreach
New Beginning Baptist Fellowship is hosting a free food and clothing distribution from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. June 27 at 5825 Groom Road, Baker In addition, church members will offer prayers
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