Summer Camp Ideas

Coach,

We take our kids out into the "boonies" for our summer camp. We don't take the freshman because it may be too much for them because we have a week-long camp at our school a couple weeks later that they must attend. Anyway, we go to a place in southern Ohio (our school is in Ohio), and we stay there for 4 days and 3 nights. There is NOTHING around to distract the kids (no t.v., etc...) Some kids bring portable video game modules, but they are so busy and so tired that they usually don't get to play them. We have 3 sessions a day. (session 1 and 2- 3 hours, and session 3 at dusk for about an hour and a half). The kids go swimming at the end of each day. We get three meals a day, and a dessert at night. On the last day before we go home, we divide the kids by school class (sophomores, juniors, seniors), and we have game competitions that all stress team building. The camp is ideal because there are no distractions, nobody to talk to except each other, and the coaches also get to bond with the players. It helped our team come together dramatically. I suggest something like what I described for team building and total concentration on football.