Camp instructor Chris Perkins talks to members of the BHHS girls soccer team during Tuesday’s session of camp. The Pilot/Jef Hatch

“You’ve got major league ideas, but minor league execution,” renowned college coach Cliff McCrath said. 

McCrath was speaking to an assembled group of Brookings-Harbor High School boys’ soccer players after asking them what they could do to make an exercise they just ran work better. 

McCrath, retired as one of the most winning NCAA coaches and owner of Northwest Soccer Camp in Kenmore, Wash., brought members of his camp staff to Brookings for the second installment of a personalized camp for the Bruin boys and girls soccer teams.

“This is all thanks to Dr. Spratt here,” McCrath said, motioning to Peter Spratt, a local business man and high school sports enthusiasts. “This is his vision.”

Spratt put personal connections to work last year to get the camp to Brookings, and it worked out so well they came again.

According to Spratt, the camp has been a real benefit to the soccer players at the high school, and because the teams have been able to hold fundraisers to offset the cost, it has been affordable to the them.

“It’s been really good,” BHHS senior Thomas Spratt said. “It’s been hot. Last year there was fog every day and it made things a little cooler, but it has been great.”

Accompanying McCrath were Joe Bean, a retired coach from Washington, and Chris and Tami Perkins, who came with McCrath to last year’s camp.

The camp runs from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., daily through Friday.