Navy SEALS teach Salem football players "team building" skills

LISBON, Ohio - Football is a game of inches. This week the Salem High School Football team got help finding every inch of their potential. They learned team building in a most unusual way.
It's training like no other. And what's being drilled into the minds of these young men from Salem High School's Football Squad is teamwork and endurance through adversity.
Navy SEAL Adam Newbold of Lisbon says, "We want to instill in them the knowledge that they can do it. We know that most men quit when they begin to tire. Good men go until they think they're going to collapse, but the very best know that the mind tires before the body and they'll push themselves further."
And no one knows that better than home grown Navy SEAL Adam Newbold and his staff at ATG or Advanced Training Group Worldwide out of Lisbon.
"We're a tactical training command. We teach special operators, Navy SEALS, Green Berets, Rangers and also SWAT teams," Newbold said.
Each and every exercise for this high school squad is not about perfecting their football skills, but a lesson in how to work together. How one person's strengths can balance out another's weaknesses.
Ron Johnson is the Head Football Coach at Salem High School, "No question. Anytime you can learn to work together with others from all different backgrounds, sizes, shapes and abilities. When you can work together in unison together with them and succeed you can definitely use that for the rest of your life."
Just when these young men think they can't take any more they some how find the strength to keep going, and that's what this drill was really all about.
Kade Byland is a Senior football player at Salem, "I think the team is getting closer together and we're learning how to go through the hard stuff."
And now this team plans to take what they've learned here and run with it, while hitting their stride not only in football but in the game of life.