Summer Games
Lacrosse is just one of the many sports offered up this summer through Dickinson's sports camps. Photo by Carl Socolow '77.
Sports camps are a big part of the high-energy mix that comes to campus each summer
by Tony Moore
Even when most students are gone for the summer, Dickinson is a pretty busy place. Between the Center for Talented Youth program, the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet camp and summer sports camps, young people keep campus vibrant all through the summer months.
And in June, the sports camps kicked off in the Kline Center with Coach Alan Seretti’s basketball camp for kids in grades 3-9, marking Seretti’s 19th season of summer camps.
As is the case each summer, the camps are run with the assistance of Red Devil athletes, and the experience is always as rewarding for the students as it is for the campers.
“These camps are important for me because they help me teach the game I grew up playing to people who love it just as much as I do,” says Bridgette Corbran ’16 (psychology), a Red Devil forward who worked the girls' soccer camp. “I remember how much I looked up to college players when they used to be my counselors at soccer camps, and I hope to have as much impact on these athletes.”
"The connection our athletes made with the local athletes is priceless," says Women's Head Basketball Coach Katherine Bixby. "The majority of our campers were from Carlisle and surrounding counties, so it provides us with a supportive fan base that genuinely cares about our athletes."
Also on the agenda was Men’s Head Coach Brian Redding’s soccer camp, Head Coach Dave Webster’s lacrosse camp and a field hockey camp run by Head Coach Caitlin Williams. July brought girls’ basketball, under Coach Bixby, and more Seretti basketball camps, keeping all campus athletics facilities abuzz.
“This camp is important to me because I love representing this team, and I want to be as involved as I can be as a student-athlete in its development,” says Hannah Matlack ’16 (French), who also was a part of the soccer camp. “And it's an opportunity for the players to be involved with the college at a young age and have access to high-level coaching.”
Camps are only part of the summer activities afoot at Dickinson. Student-faculty research continues all season long across campus and at the College Farm, where the growing season is in full bloom. Dickinson also hosts free outdoor movie screenings on the Weiss Center lawn as well as exhibitions and a full program of community- and school-based arts-education programs at the Trout Gallery.
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Published July 24, 2015