LOS ANGELES - Competition winners, top prospects and rankings from the Ray Guy Prokicker.com Winter camp last weekend, Long Distance Field Goal Winner:  Mitchell Wheelon, 50 yards Long Distance Kickoff Winner:  Eric Sanchez, 69 yds, 3.67 sec Hang Time Punt Winner:  Cody Fisher, 52yds, 4.12 sec Out of bounds punt right winner:  Matt Barr, 6 yd line Out of bounds punt left winner:  Jose Munguia, 3 yd line Fastest single snap:  Shawn Murphy, .81 sec Most Accurate Snapper:  Joe Marx, 19/30 Top Prospects: Matthew Barr, K/P, 2013 Eric Sanchez, K/P, 2012 Rankings #1 kicker:  Eric Sanchez, 2012 #1 punter:  Cody…

By Donovan Aird / The Tribune News At many high schools around the country, it can be typical for coaches to shy away from attempting field goals from longer than 35 yards. Not on the Central Coast — at least not this year. Coming into tonight, five San Luis Obispo County kickers have made field goals of at least 35 yards, and four additional non- county kickers in the PAC 7 and Los Padres leagues have also eclipsed that mark through the season’s first three weeks. Of course, towering above them all is Arroyo Grande High’s Garrett Owens. Owens, a…

WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - Ray Guy Prokicker.com competition results from the camp in the San Francisco area. Long Distance Field Goal HS: Skyler Rand, 50 yards Long Distance Kickoff: Angus McDonald, 63 yards Hang Time Punt: Cole Thomas, 4.63 Out of Bounds Punt Right: James Donegan Out of Bounds Punt Left: Skyler Rand Fastest Single Snap: Hunter Morgan, 0.83 Most Accurate Snapper: Bruce Detter and Ryan Dunlap, 16 of 30 TOP PROSPECTS Skyler Rand, kicker-punter, 2013 Nick Lima, kicker, 2013

By Mark Maynard / Prokickernews.com LAGUNA HILLS, Calif. – Kickers Brady Runyon and Eddie Juarez were the top prospects from the Ray Guy Prokicker.com camp in the Los Angeles area last weekend. Juarez showed off his strong leg with a 72-yard kickoff while also charting 7-of-10 on field goals. “He’s a good one,” said Prokicker.com staffer Josh Raphael. “Big strong leg. He needs to keep working, but he has a lot of potential.” At the camp in the San Francisco area, campers had to endure 100-degree heat with temperatures hitting about 140 degrees on the field turf, said staff instructor…

LAGUNA HILLS, Calif. – Competition results from the Ray Guy Prokicker.com camp in the Los Angeles area Saturday and Sunday. Longest Field Goal High School: Dylan Peterson, 45 yards Long Distance Kickoff: Eddie Juarez, 72 yards Hang Time Punt: Cody Fisher, 4.36 Out of Bounds Punt Right: Sergio Hernandez Fastest Single Snap: Ross Ludwig Most Accurate Snapper: Joseph Marx, 20 out of 30 TOP PROSPECTS Brady Runyon, kicker Eddie Juarez, kicker

LAGUNA HILLS, Calif. – Dylan Peterson, a rising senior at Cathedral Catholic High School in San Diego, was the Long Distance Field Goal winner at the Ray Guy Prokicker.com camp here on Thursday. Peterson banged in a 45-yard field goal to win the competition. “The camp went pretty good,” he said. “A learned a lot of things that helped me. I was pretty satisfied.” Peterson said the drills he learned will be something that he takes back with him to San Diego. He said the Prokicker.com staff helped him improve his leg speed with the sweeping motion in his kick.…

First published by: Ray Hacke- This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Juan Gamboa had the leg. He just didn't have the experience. That's what the Bellarmine College Prep grad heard from one team after another as he tried to land a job as a kicker in pro football. Gamboa, 24, auditioned for the 49ers and Atlanta Falcons, as well as all four teams in the United Football League and all eight in the Canadian Football League. All told him they wanted someone who had kicked for another pro team. "That was the frustrating thing for me," Gamboa said. "How could I get experience when no…

First published by: Dan Albano Inspiring Trabuco Hills kicker Oleg Parent (6-0, 155) has committed to FCS North Carolina Central from the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, the senior announced. Parent, a second-team All-County pick, had several options - including a few preferred walk-ons at Division 1-A schools, but said he felt "absolutely at home" at North Carolina Central. "The coaching staff, facilities and players are amazing and it is relatively close to Washington, D.C. as I am considering a career in International Relations," Parent wrote in an e-mail. Oleg is Russian and his story is very inspiring. 

Two weeks ago at El Modena High School in Orange California some of the best high school kickers in the country gathered at the Ray Guy kicking camp to show their stuff. Mountain View kicker Chavo Camargo was there as well and put on quite a show. The 6-foot, 200-pound junior excelled in kickoff distance. Camargo had an average kickoff distance of 66.50 yards per kick which was 2nd nationally and #1 among kids from the West coast. He also had one kickoff that went 72.0 yards, which was also  2nd nationally and No. 1 among kids from the West…