Updated: August 2025
In selecting athletes as members of the Varsity Blues football team, the coaching staff will consider the following:
- Competitiveness in relation to your years of eligibility
- Overall competitiveness in practice and in scrimmages
- Work ethic in practice and games
- Technical skill for performance and safety
- Physical attributes (height, weight, jump, strength, coordination, quickness, speed etc.)
- Coachability, perseverance and leadership skills
- Conditioning & preparedness for performance and safety
- Communication skills and interactions with student-athletes, coaches, and support staff
- Make choices that reflect a positive and winning attitude
- Choices that indicate that you are a responsible student-athlete
- Good nutritional, sleep, training & study choices
- Be a part of a solution when there is a challenge
- Durability
- Physical preparation
- Knowledge and execution of team systems and schemes
- Player potential
- Chemistry (positive interactions with teammates)
- The ability to make all the right choices in representing the Varsity Blues Football program and the University - reflecting a winning attitude on and off the field and in the classroom.
- Due to the large numbers, we must be confident that you will get a fair opportunity to compete, get repetitions and proper instruction
Our 2025 training camp roster size is restricted by U SPORTS regulations and is full. If you wish to join the team in our off-season (winter) programming for an opportunity to be assessed and evaluated please contact the coaching staff in December 2025.
Thank you
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Coach Contact Information
Darrell Adams, Head Coach
darrell.adams@utoronto.ca
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