[su_spacer size=”20″] The Georgia football team avoided the afternoon thunderstorms at the Woodruff Practice Fields but still returned to the locker room Monday in need of dry clothes.
[su_spacer size=”40″] After a 10-minute walk through indoors, Bulldog head coach Mark Richt surprised the team with news of a surprise trip to the Ramsey Center and the Gabrielsen Natatorium.
[su_spacer size=”40″] [foogallery id=”61717″] [su_spacer size=”40″] “We had jumpers not really divers going off the high dive today,” Richt said of the annual tradition of going to the pool and making newcomers take a leap off the 10-meter platform. “It was fun, they did a good job. There’s a certain time during camp when just you need one of those days, and a lot of times it has to do with the weather. We had a little bit of a warning that there might be some weather coming in and instead of sitting around waiting all day to practice, we decided to come on and do it. Also, It was a perfect time, it was practice eight or nine in a string of practices without a day off. Today we got a day off and, we’ll have four more practices before school starts.”
[su_spacer size=”40″] A pair of Bulldog veterans said they enjoyed the pool day in lieu of practice.
[su_spacer size=”40″] “It’s kind of a camp tradition,” junior tailback Brendan Douglas said. “I’ve been doing it since my freshman year, so this is my third time. It’s a good time just to have a little fun during camp. Camp can get kind of long and tiring, and it’s good to have a little day off and a day to rest your body and have some fun.”
[su_spacer size=”40″] “It’s great that you have a physical break,” sophomore tight end Jeb Blazevich added. “We still had the middle install today, but it’s just great when you have a nice physical break to show that the coaches do care about you. They want you to have fun; they understand that. But again we still got in some good work today.”