Successful Week of Camp Completed

WHOOO! (attempting to spell out the sound for a sigh of relief, LOL) OK it's now time to finally take a calm and relaxing breathe.  We finished our week of camp on Friday, July 26th with our Team Camp Championship.  It was a great way to finish the busy week and the match itself was very exciting. I'll add more details soon.

We started the week off with our HS Skills camp and Youth Camp from Monday to Wednesday.  We accomplished so much with all of our campers in this short amount of time.  It feels so rewarding to get such an enthusiastic "YES" when you ask the question if the campers learned a lot and improved during the camp sessions.  We had a solid number of campers come for each camp and were excited about the talent level that came on to campus as well. Those of you that couldn't make it really missed out on a great experience, so you'll have to try next summer to get it in your schedule.  It was also a great opportunity for us to bring some of our recruits on campus for the 2014 and 2015 classes to train with our staff and players and to visit campus.  We may have locked up a couple of recruits with this opportunity that was presented to them.

The team camp was a great way to finish the week.  This camp that focused on skill and team development more than game play was a huge success.  It was capped off with a very competitive championship match between Ethan and Britton-Hecla.  Every set played was very competitive and within 2 to 3 points of each other.  Ethan came away with the championship and pride of becoming the first back-to-back DWU Team Camp Champions.

A very special thank you goes to all of our DWU players that came back to help out with camp to be instructors and team coaches.  Without them our camp week would not be as successful as it is. They are all so giving of their time and energy.

We are looking at adjusting a couple of things with our camps next summer such as doing our HS level as a couple of position specific camp days rather than an all-skills camp.  We should have the new dates and formats for all of our camps next February.

Best wishes to all of you that read this as you prepare for your upcoming seasons.  We will have our next post be about our preparation for the preseason and upcoming early matches.

Take care all of you,

Coach V