Bucknell Men's Soccer High School Team Camp Set for July 14-17

Bucknell Men's Soccer High School Team Camp -- Summer 2024

CAMP REGISTRATION

Dates/Cost/Registration Details:

Summer 2024 HS Team Camp dates are Sunday, July 14 to Wednesday, July 17
Camp starts with check-in and registration from 11:30 a.m. to -1 p.m. on Sunday, July 14th, and camp will end at noon on Wednesday, July 17
Cost is $490 for resident campers (staying overnight with us in the dorms), and $390 for commuter campers (commuters are at camp from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.; they essentially miss just breakfast and overnight in the dorm, but otherwise do everything the rest of camp does throughout the day)
Sign up is through a Google Form, provided to each camper by that camper's coach, or by us, and submitted online
Payment must be by check, mailed to us here at Bucknell. Deposit required is $140, and deposit is due immediately upon registering. Balance is due anytime, or at the latest at check-in on the first morning of camp

Description:
A High School Team Camp open to any team of rising 9th-12th grade boys with an emphasis on three things:

1. Relevant, real skills that every HS player can use and get better at.

first touch/ball speed/handling speed
technical efficiency and a valuing of minimal touches
turning/squaring up/transition touch
penetration on the ground and receiving in tight spaces
comfort level in tight spaces and a philosophy of passing and what it takes to be a good passing team, regardless of skill level

Basic skills that are rarely taught well, rarely insisted upon, and rarely integrated into real game situations, and this is where our camp is different. Your players will be taught things that are simply not being taught in most environments.

2. Inspiring, High Energy On Field Environment
Not the typical camp environment where teaching sessions are slower as the week goes on, and something to just "get through" until it is time to play the games. Your teams will be immersed in a purposeful teaching and training environment where energy and a sense of inspiration are paramount. Your players will experience an intentional high-energy, high-concentration, top-level training environment that will have every chance to bleed into the consciousness of your players and teams heading into the fall season.

3. An intentional leadership and culture-building emphasis that will challenge your players off the field as well
Coach Brandt is one of the foremost builders of positive, inspiring, and intentional team cultures in the country, and the above-said is also a big emphasis in this camp experience -- an intentional values and mentality emphasis aimed at challenging players ideas of what leadership really is, what it means to create a "brotherhood" in your team, and what it means, and how simple it is to decide to pursue high standards in everything they do.

Staff:
Staff this summer will consist of a group of college and club coaches who align with our teaching and game philosophy and are committed to the same high teaching, coaching, and role-modeling standards that we espouse. We are far less concerned with the "pedigree" of our staff coaches, or how big the college they coach at is, than we are the energy they bring to sessions, and the genuine interest they take in coaching and impacting the players at this camp.

Each HS team will have a college or club coach as a head coach for the week, and then also a current college player assistant coach.

Dorms:
Players who attend camp can stay overnight in the dorm we are assigned, or they can choose to commute from home. The commuter day runs from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., and obviously overnight campers are here 24/7 for the duration of camp. Staying in the dorms can be a very positive team bonding experience, but we also take seriously monitoring the dorms and have a very strict, zero tolerance policy on any sort of bullying or misbehavior in the dorm. Players who do choose to stay in the dorm must commit to a high standard of behavior and abide by our dorm rules.

Meals:
Commuter campers eat breakfast at home, and then lunch and dinner in the school dining hall. Resident campers eat a light breakfast provided in the dorm lobby, and then lunch and dinner in the school dining hall.

General Schedule:
Morning Session: technical teaching session, followed by 30 minutes of tactical team instruction
Afternoon Session: competitive small-sided games that we call "ladder games". A camp highlight and the best and most positive and productive way in our opinion to spend a July afternoon at camp
Evening Session: 11v11 competitive games
*Character-Building Block Sessions twice a day, as well as off-field team discussions and breakout groups

Bucknell Men's Soccer High School Team Camp Set for July 14-17

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