Future Stars Camps Blog – Sports, Kids, Camp!

Meet Manuela Cornejo.  She speaks 3 languages fluently and is lucky enough to call 3 different continents home.  She has lived in Ecuador and Germany.  Currently, she is here working on her MBA in Marketing and playing her senior year for a nationally ranked D2 Tennis team.  Manuela spent her summer as a Future Stars Camps tennis counselor.  See what she has to share about her first year at Future Stars Tennis camp.

Alex Danson is a 33 year old English international field hockey player, who plays as a forward.  Alex has received a number of awards and in 2017 led the team as England Women's Hockey Captain through to the last four in the semi finals of the world league.   Alex is the founder of the Alex Danson Hockey Academy, with the goal of introducing children to field hockey in their schools to increase awareness and participation in hockey at a grass roots level.

Meet Madison! She is talented and easy to talk to and I had the pleasure of meeting her at lunch with the rest of her Field hockey camp!  I have seen her out on the field and this girl can play! Although a lot of her heart belongs to horseback riding, this camp has helped her realize her love for field hockey as well!

There are many reasons why people love playing field hockey.  Revolution Field Hockey Camps reviews 5 specific health benefits that can be attributed to playing the sport:

Stack.com shares five top reasons why college coaches prefer recruiting multi-sports athletes:

Meet Ben! He was attending Multi-Sports camp when I met with him but he is a Future Stars pro! He has been around this summer and last and is such a genuinely sweet kid.

Mark Rerick, athletic director shared with the National Federation of State High School Associations his thoughts on:

If you are interested in diving, then you should see what great Olympic divers do! If you are inspired, please do consider enrolling at Future Stars Diving camp for 2019 and get yourself wet!

Meet Grace! She had been in camp for 2 weeks and has improved a great deal in diving since attending Diving camp.  I chatted with her at lunch and loved to hear about the fun that she was having at camp!

USA Diving shared that Team USA announced last week that Jack Matthews (Powell, Ohio) and Bridget O’Neil (Southlake, Texas) will compete for Team USA at the Summer Youth Olympic Games Buenos Aires 2018, in Argentina.  Mandy Eby (Powell, Ohio), coached both divers and their qualification was  based on their performances in group A competition this summer at Junior World Championships in Kiev, Ukraine.