From the Hill sports
A Colby Tr yout: Sports Camps I ntroduce Kids to the College fa·ery summer hundreds of
" People know how quickly they
kids ages 1 1 - 1 8 are introduced
fill up," she said. Serdjenian
to Colby on the soccer pitch
does no advertising, but the
w i th .\ lark Serdjenian ' 7 3 ,
1 7 5 spots in both of his one
during basketball drills with
week sessions are filled within
Dick Y\'hitmore or at one of
a week. Serdjenian, associate dean
se\·en other summer sport camps run by Colby's Office
of students and a former el
of Special Programs. Often it's
ementary school teacher, says
the beginning of a long rela
h e corn bi ned aspects of the
tionship. " From the first time
other New England soccer
I stepped on campus for camp,
camps he worked at before
I knew that I was going to
starting Colby's i n 1 97 9 . He
come here as a student," said
made it coed because, he said,
Jake Civie l lo 'O 1 of Bangor, a
" I always felt d1at it kept a real
f o r m e r camper and now a
sense of normalcy and civility. "
guard on the basketball team.
Serdjenian's camps also give
ince retired football coach
many kids exposure to Colby
Dick .\ IcGee first offered a day
The Pine Tree Baskeball Ca mp is one of the summer sports camps offered at Col by.
and many of his campers return
schools during his sophomore year of high
to campus as students, though not always as
rience, learned about the College's values ruid
school. " Basketball was important," he said,
soccer players, he says.
investigated Colby as a college option. McGee
"but I needed an education that was top-notch
started rus camp, wruch is still in action, to meet
regardless." Vinien Forsyth's parents came to
camp in l 9 7 6 , campers have enjoyed the ex'µe
a local demand for fundamental instruction. The Pine Tree Basketball Camp, directed by men'
coach D ick \Vh i t m o re, is t h e
o llege's longest-running overn ight camp. Pine Tree started at T homas College in the 1970s but mo\·ed to Colby in 1 98 3 for the fa cilities. I ts three one-week sessions bring about I ,000 boy to campus e\•ery summer.
ntil
three years ago it included a girl's camp. Now girls ha\·e their
mm
camp, run independendy
[)\· women' basketball coach Tricia O' Brien. " Pine Tree, of course, was the camp to go to," said
am Clark 'O I , of \ \'oohl-ich, ,\ Iaine,
a fomard on the basketball team. Clark says Pine Tree, \1 h ich he attended from middle �chool through his enior year of high school, \l<l� hi� fi r�t introduction to Colb�· and to be ing <J\I <1� from home. Clark looked at other 0- � CAC schools but he�1tated in appl�ing to Colby because he as �oc1Jted it \1 ith summer camp onl�-. " But die oach \\ 11itmore and
more I tai led \1 ith
former plJ� er. the more r reali7e<l hm1 com foruhle I felt \1 1th ,olb� ," he aid. "So a tour .m d ;1 \ 1�1t Luer T \1 a� appl�ing earl� decision, .md I don't think T \ e e\ er mac.le a better choice." D.n 1d For�� th '0 1 . of G rand RJpids, \ Jich. , read ; 1 ,\po11.i ll/11strt1Tcd <i rticle on '\' F .'C \C
1aine for a sailing vacation after hjs jwi.ioryear
Sarah Eustis '96, who grew up in vVaterville and now Lives in Albuquerque,
in rugh school, he signed up for Pine Tree. " I
I looked fon¥ard to my week at camp," she sajd. T hjs summer, her si.A'th year on the staff, will T rus summer's camp offerings include base see her taking a more !incited role since she tore ball, basketball, football, lacrosse, running, a knee ligament last fall. " I t's ruce to be in a soccer and softball. "It's nice to have the cam place where kids are appreciated, where a com pus full of life in the summer, '' said Joan mon purpose moves us," Eustis said. Sanzenbacher, director of special programs. This summer, coaches Heidi Godomsky Sanzenbacher has overseen the camps in die and Dave Zazzaro add boys' and girls' lacrosse 2 3 years they've been on campus. Her four camps to the schedule. Sanzenbacher says sons attended Pine Tree and d1e first cross word gets out diat Colby camps are well ruJ1 country and soccer camps. She says d1e ma and have great facilities. The cross-cowitry j o rity of campers are camp run by coaches Summer Sports Camps at Colby from . M aine or ew Debra Aj tken and J im England. H o wever, vVescott started wi di 1 3 Soccer (coed) grandchildren of area runners in 1 9 84 and Football (boys) residents attend, and now enrolls 1 00. Lacrosse (gi rls) some physicians partici N o t only d o t h e pating in the summer campers discover Col Lacrosse (boys) continuing medical edu by, says Sanzenbacher, Cross Country (coed) cation workshops of but so do their broth Softba l l (girls) fered at Colby enroll ers and sisters. "Camp d1eir kid . e rs a rrive in s t a t i o n Basketball (gi rls) Sanzenbacher says wagons that a r e a l so Basketball (boys) applications for men's filled with siblings," she Baseba l l (boys) soccer coach erd said. " I t's their first view j e n i an' coed soccer of college life." -Alicia For more information about these or any camp arri\·e by Fed Ex. of the other summer programs at Colby Nemiccolo tvlrtcLeay '97
fell i n love with the campus," he sajd.
ca l l Special Programs at 207.87 3 . 3 3 86 or go on l ine (www.colby.edu/spec.prog).
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