Future Stars Camps Blog – Sports, Kids, Camp!

Meet Collin.  He's at tennis camp this week, and you can usually find him on the courts.  Collin is 12 years old and has been playing tennis for about 6 years.  His parents played tennis and they encouraged him to learn tennis, and he has been playing here at camp ever since.  Collin shares his day with Meg Griffin.

Swim Swam's, Olivier Poirier-Leroy shares that being the best swimmer that you can be may not just be about swimming practices and drills, dry land routines, coaching, nutrition, natural abilities or physical attributes but also about your mental preparedness.  Try developing these habits:

Richard D Ginsburg Ph.D, with Psychology Today, questions whether playing high-level sports garners kids better opportunities to get into colleges of their choice.  The truth is " less than 5% in most cases as estimated by the NCAA and the National Alliance of Youth Sports" play college sports.  "Bill Pennington wrote in the New York Times, full scholarships are rarely given. In fact, most scholarships fail to match the years of annual youth sports bills that include membership fees and extensive travel bills. Is it really worth our time, energy, and dollars to invest in such an unlikely outcome?"

Meet Eliana.  Eliana is 9 this summer and started at Rising Stars camp when she was 3.    Eliana is a rising 4th grader.  This conversation stems from a chat with her previous counselor, Meg Griffin, who notes that Eliana is "so much bigger and stronger" than when she started at Future Stars Camps.

Soccer America's Randy Vogt has some good advice for young referees when confronted with angry adults when he gave a talk on reffing at intramural games.  Sadly, when aswering questions about soccer rules, Randy found that many of the young referees' questions were about how to manage adults who were behaving inappropriately during a game, whether they were coaches or players' parents.  These young refs were between the ages of  10 -14 and the players' they reffed were age 6 - 12.  Here is some advice that Randy shared:

Horse Network shares some pointers that you should think about to help you correct any mistakes that you could be making in the show ring. Here are some things to consider:

Meet Meg Griffin.  And as family traditions go, Meg is the daughter of Bill Griffin, a Future Stars Camps founder.  Meg started at the Rising Stars Camp when she was 3, in the days when you could start that young.  Meg has only missed one summer since she turned 16 workings as a counselor at the Rising Stars camp.  Meg just graduated from Wake Forest University and will be joining the Futures Stars Camp team as Head of Social Media.

Practical Golf's Jon Sherman shares that putting is one of the hardest things for him in golf because you need to do three things properly:

Dancers frequently suffer from dull arch pain often after tedious rehearsals.  Dance Magazine, shares what 2 podiatrists have to say about prevention tips and treatment advice.

"Future Stars Camps has been around for 37 years and keeping it fresh while maintaining the values that have made this summer day camp a family tradition are why parents, who attended as kids, want their children to come here."  -- Jordan Snider