QB Magazine Athlete Feature
Some quarterbacks wait years for a moment like the one Camden Trevino already has.
“Running a QB designed run to score the game-winning touchdown in triple overtime,” he says, when asked for his favorite football memory. That’s the whole answer. He doesn’t need to dress it up.
Triple overtime, ball in his hands, and he took it in himself. Camden Trevino is in fourth grade.
The Class of 2034 quarterback from Surprise, Arizona, who attends ALA Vistancia, has been playing for four years — and the reason he started is the reason a lot of the good ones start.
“It was a hobby for my dad and I to do together, since he has coached all of my teams.”
Four years later that hobby has produced a state championship, and the way his team got there is worth telling. Camden’s squad went into the playoffs seeded third. To win it, they had to beat the second seed and then the first seed, back to back.
They did.
He lists that run as the biggest challenge he’s faced, which is a nice way of saying the hardest thing he’s done is also the best thing he’s done. Most players don’t get those to line up so cleanly.
What he loves about the game is refreshingly uncomplicated.
“Football is the best game. I have so much fun. I love being a QB because I can lead my teammates and throw touchdowns.”
Ask what makes a great quarterback and the list is short and all about conduct: be a leader, confidence, take charge, accountability. His favorite player is Patrick Mahomes, admired for the same reasons most kids his age admire him, plus one that shows he’s paying closer attention than most. “He completely takes over a game, he can make every throw, how passionate he is about the game.”
The training behind it is already organized. Camden works with Coach Mike Giovando at Elev8 QB Academy and with Coach Dylan and Coach Gil at Sling IT QB, and his camp schedule includes Coach Gio’s camp, the Sling IT QB camp, and First Down Training with Coach Grant.
His goals split neatly between the technical and the ambitious. The technical one is real work: get better at reading the field and identifying coverage — the skill that separates quarterbacks who can throw from quarterbacks who know where to throw. The ambitious one is a straight line from where he’s standing.
“I won a state championship, now I want to win a national championship.”
And the person he credits is the one who started it all with him.
“My dad has helped me the most in football. He challenges me, believes in me, and always makes football fun.”
That last clause is the one worth holding onto. A fourth grader with a state ring, a triple-overtime game-winner, and a coach at home who has kept it fun through all of it. That’s about as good a foundation as this sport offers.
Follow Camden: @camden.trevino on Instagram
Why a Membership Matters
Let’s be honest about where Camden is. He’s in fourth grade. No college coach is evaluating him, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something.
What’s true is smaller and more useful: he’s already done things worth keeping.
A state championship as a third seed, won by beating the second and first seeds back to back. A game-winning designed run in triple overtime. Four years of football that started as something to do with his dad and turned into all of this. Right now that lives in a few phone videos, a couple of team photos, and the memory of everyone who was in the stands — and memories get fuzzy faster than anyone expects. Ask a parent to name the score of a championship game from six years ago.
A free QB Magazine profile fixes that part at no cost, and it’s the right first step for a family at this stage. Recruiting page, performance and academic stats, film links, photos. One permanent place where the state title and the triple-overtime run actually exist in writing, instead of scattered across a camera roll that will get replaced twice before he reaches high school.
The season ahead is what fills it in. Camden says he wants a national championship next, and that chase starts this fall. Every game of it either gets recorded somewhere durable while it’s happening, or it doesn’t. Setting the profile up in August means the season builds as it goes, in real time. Setting it up two years from now means trying to reconstruct it from memory.
Where a membership earns its keep for a family like this is more practical than most people expect.
It helps to put the number next to something familiar. A blue verified check on X costs $8 a month, and what it buys is an icon — one that half the platform has now, that says nothing about the person holding it except that a card went through.
The most affordable QB Magazine membership is $17.99 a month. About the price of two blue checks, and instead of an icon somebody actually builds something for Camden: a recruiting profile with his stats, a custom graphic made for him every single month, two monthly story reposts on Instagram or X, a feature article every year, and 25 percent off camps.
That last item is the one to run the math on. Camden is already going to Coach Gio’s camp, Sling IT, and First Down Training, and he trains year-round with two different academies. His family is writing those checks regardless. A quarter off camps at Practice Squad, half off at Starter, and All-Pro covers them entirely — for households already this invested, the membership frequently costs less than it saves.
And the graphics are worth more at his age than the recruiting language suggests. An icon is automated. A custom graphic is a person sitting down with a nine-year-old’s championship season and making something out of it — something his grandparents will save, something he’ll still have when he’s seventeen and can barely remember the game.
Which brings up the real advantage here, the one nobody with an older kid still has. Camden is Class of 2034. That’s ten years. Nobody needs to be found right now, and nothing has to happen fast. But a record that starts in fourth grade and gets added to every season is a genuinely different object by the time it matters than one thrown together as a junior — and a name that’s been quietly surfacing for years is familiar long before anyone is deciding anything.
One last thing, and it has nothing to do with recruiting at all.
Camden wanted his dad in this article. The man who coached every team he’s ever played on, who challenges him and believes in him and — in Camden’s own words — always makes football fun. He wanted Coach Gio, Coach Dylan, and Coach Gil in it too. Every article and every graphic becomes a permanent piece of that record. Not a clip that disappears down a feed by Friday. Proof of what a fourth grader was building, and who he thanked while he was building it.
He already has a ring and a triple-overtime touchdown.
Somebody should write it down while he’s still nine.
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