As summer quickly nears, we receive many questions about summer camps for players.
Summer camps are a terrific way to get improve skills and receive different coaching than you might get at a home-town youth league run by volunteers that just has practice a couple times a week for an hour or so. The camps my daughter attended tried to make it fun, taught the girls various stick tricks, fancy moves, and practice drills. I believe the camps helped solidify her love of the game. She was, however, a girl who definitely needed her friends with her. Most girls go with a group of friends and if your daughter is there on her own, I suspect it could be pretty lonely.
There seem to be two primary reasons for girls to attend a lacrosse camp:
1. To improve their skills
2. To be seen by college coaches
For youth players, obviously the first reason is more critical.
Many local private schools have lacrosse camps during the summer. Belmont Hill School has a girls lacrosse camp from July 18-22 this summer - several girls who came up through the Belmont Youth Program coach there and I've heard good things about it. BBN School also has a week-long camp, though it looks like it's run by a male coach. The boys and girls games are so very different, I urge girls to seek out female coaches who played the game themselves.
MBGLL posts a listing of various camps and clinics at http://www.mbgll.org/more-lacrosse/lax-clinics-camps.
There are also many camps run by local lacrosse leagues. Google "girls lacrosse camps MA" and many lists appear, such as:
http://www.laxjournal.com/newsinfo/camps.php
http://www.mysummercamps.com/camps/massachusetts-lacrosse-camps.html
Many colleges with strong teams also run summer camps and clinics. As your daughter gets older and starts thinking about playing in college, attending a college camp is a great way to be seen by the coaches and for your daughter to get a feel for what the coach and team is like. If your daughter is a strong player, this is a particularly good way to be seen and I strongly recommend that summers during the high school years you look to college camps. There are also specialty camps, for goalies, for example.
My daughter attended lax day camps at Wellesley College for two summers (6th and 7th grades) with several friends. In 8th grade, she went with three other friends to a sleepover camp at Bowdoin College, which she loved!
We did not, however, understand the value of college camps as a way to be seen by the college coaches - which may have been a disadvantage! (Though the past two years she worked as a lifeguard and also played on a club team, so I'm not sure when she would have found the time!)
The bottom line: If you're daughter is enjoying the game, you're looking to keep her occupied this summer, and she wants to improve her skills, consider one of the many lacrosse camps available in the area!
Summer camps are a terrific way to get improve skills and receive different coaching than you might get at a home-town youth league run by volunteers that just has practice a couple times a week for an hour or so. The camps my daughter attended tried to make it fun, taught the girls various stick tricks, fancy moves, and practice drills. I believe the camps helped solidify her love of the game. She was, however, a girl who definitely needed her friends with her. Most girls go with a group of friends and if your daughter is there on her own, I suspect it could be pretty lonely.
There seem to be two primary reasons for girls to attend a lacrosse camp:
1. To improve their skills
2. To be seen by college coaches
For youth players, obviously the first reason is more critical.
Many local private schools have lacrosse camps during the summer. Belmont Hill School has a girls lacrosse camp from July 18-22 this summer - several girls who came up through the Belmont Youth Program coach there and I've heard good things about it. BBN School also has a week-long camp, though it looks like it's run by a male coach. The boys and girls games are so very different, I urge girls to seek out female coaches who played the game themselves.
MBGLL posts a listing of various camps and clinics at http://www.mbgll.org/more-lacrosse/lax-clinics-camps.
There are also many camps run by local lacrosse leagues. Google "girls lacrosse camps MA" and many lists appear, such as:
http://www.laxjournal.com/newsinfo/camps.php
http://www.mysummercamps.com/camps/massachusetts-lacrosse-camps.html
Many colleges with strong teams also run summer camps and clinics. As your daughter gets older and starts thinking about playing in college, attending a college camp is a great way to be seen by the coaches and for your daughter to get a feel for what the coach and team is like. If your daughter is a strong player, this is a particularly good way to be seen and I strongly recommend that summers during the high school years you look to college camps. There are also specialty camps, for goalies, for example.
My daughter attended lax day camps at Wellesley College for two summers (6th and 7th grades) with several friends. In 8th grade, she went with three other friends to a sleepover camp at Bowdoin College, which she loved!
We did not, however, understand the value of college camps as a way to be seen by the college coaches - which may have been a disadvantage! (Though the past two years she worked as a lifeguard and also played on a club team, so I'm not sure when she would have found the time!)
The bottom line: If you're daughter is enjoying the game, you're looking to keep her occupied this summer, and she wants to improve her skills, consider one of the many lacrosse camps available in the area!
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