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Bengals players report July 30 to training camp at
Georgetown (Ky.) College, with the first practice scheduled
July 31.
The training camp facility, officially known as the East
Campus Athletic Complex, is one of the finest in use by
an NFL team. Athletic Management, a national sports
management magazine, has recognized the complex with
its “Excellence in Outdoor Facilities” award.
The Bengals moved their training camp to Georgetown
in 1997 after 29 seasons of training at Wilmington (Ohio)
College. Georgetown’s commitment to meet state-of-theart
standards has brought unprecedented media attention
to training camp and has helped the Bengals develop their
Central Kentucky fan base.
The centerpiece of the complex is Toyota Stadium,
which offers permanent stands for 5,000 and is built
in a bowl shape that can accommodate seating for up
to 20,000 fans. The stadium is designed to provide
fans with a festival-like atmosphere, concessions,
merchandise, interactive pavilion areas and promotional
activities developed by corporate sponsors. For the team,
it features locker rooms and showers, weight and aerobic
rooms, training facilities, a press box and guest booths,
as well as a fi eld with a natural grass playing surface.
The facility, an hour’s drive south of downtown
Cincinnati, also includes a conference center used for
coaches’ classroom instruction and meals, two additional
full-size practice fi elds, apartment-style resident quads
TRAINING CAMP
GEORGETOWN COLLEGE
for player housing and executive guest townhouses. The
complex joins the college’s already existing tennis courts,
soccer field and baseball field.
For the seventh straight year, the Bengals will have
a two-day format for training camp’s major fan events.
The full-contact scrimmage will be on Friday night, Aug.
7. On Saturday afternoon Aug. 8, the team will stage the
Orange-Black Mock Game, which coach Marvin Lewis
has described as “essentially a live game, but without
tackling.”
Training camp admission is free. There is a charge
for on-campus parking.
Free autograph sessions for fans are scheduled
periodically throughout the camp.
Founded in 1787, Georgetown College is a fouryear,
private, residential, liberal arts institution that
is among America’s Colleges of Distinction, and is
the only school in Kentucky to be named both one of
America’s 100 Best College Buys and one of America’s
Best Christian Colleges. The 104-acre campus is fi ve
miles north of the Kentucky Horse Park, its academic
partner and site of the upcoming Alltech FEI World
Equestrian Games 2010. The campus is fi ve miles west
of Toyota Motor Manufacturing-Kentucky. Dr. William H.
Crouch Jr. is the 23rd president of the College, which
has an enrollment of nearly 1,900 undergraduate and
graduate students.
Photo by Paul D. Atkinson
STADIUM , NFL & MEDIA
TRAINING CAMP DATES: July 30 - Aug. 18*
DIRECTIONS: From downtown Cincinnati, take I-75 South approximately 70 miles to Exit 126 (Georgetown). Turn
right off ramp onto Cherry Blossom Way (US 460 Bypass). Stay on this main thoroughfare for approximately two miles
and turn right at the sixth traffic light, Lemons Mill Rd. (Route 1962 West). Pass the Johnson Controls plant on the right
and turn right onto Crawford Drive, which leads directly to the training camp facility.
TRAINING CAMP TELEPHONE: (502) 868-6300.
GEORGETOWN COLLEGE TRAINING CAMP WEB SITE: www.bengalscamp.com
*- Camp is closed to the public and/or media on selected days, due to team practice and travel schedules. Daily schedule information
is available at (502) 868-6300.
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