Bucknell University Athletics
There is No Off-Season for the Bucknell Student-Athlete: A Bucknell Volleyball Summer Experience
6/12/2009 8:00:00 AM | Volleyball
June 12, 2009
LEWISBURG, Pa. - Throughout the summer, members of the Bucknell volleyball squad will be checking in and sharing the various educational endeavors they are pursuing while away from Lewisburg. Here is the first installment of the 2009 summer, courtesy of senior neuroscience major and volleyball team co-captain Lindsay Smith.
For previous installments from the 2008 summer, follow the links below:
Six o'clock, the alarm goes off, it's a soothing song, but nonetheless signifies that my time to awake is imminent. I jump out of bed and dress in the dark, as to not wake my three roommates. Layers, it's still chilly at 8,500 feet in May. I venture down the rocky mountain road. Today is 100-yard sprints and cone drills. I pace out my yards through the flattest part of the mountain road I can muster. I begin my workout, pinecones for cones, rocks as my start and finish lines. It's just me, a beautiful sunrise over the mountaintops, and my thoughts for the upcoming season.
My workout is complete; it's 7:30. A quick shower and another day at Rainbow Trail Lutheran Camp begins. It's the end of staff training, a two-week time period set aside to teach our staff the ins and outs of outdoor and outreach ministry. As we prepare for the ten weeks ahead many goofy costumes and ridiculous skits help us, as directors, to teach staff important camp protocol as well as how to effectively work with all ages of children. My favorite part of these two weeks is that as a staff we do everything that we do with campers on-site including worship, bible study, a 14-mile hike to summit a mountain, a high ropes challenge course and white water rafting.
During the ten weeks ahead I will be traveling with groups of counselors to various places in Colorado and New Mexico to run Day Camps for elementary-aged children. I will also be directing a trip to Texas for a high school youth group to do Hurricane Rita recovery. This week I will head down the mountain for my first Day Camp of the summer, in Trinidad, Colo. Each week will be unique, eventful and fun-filled, and at the end of the week I know that my new family will be awaiting our return to one of my homes, Rainbow Trail.
