Swim Camp!

Anybody go to swim camp growing up? I remember going to the University of Virginia Swim Camp. I went three years and had a different coach each year. I'll never forget Coach Bernadino. He truly inspired me. No swim camps growing up, unfortunately. The focus was primarily football camps at the time.

One. It was awesome, wish I had gone to more.

I went to the swim camp at Camp Tanuga in Kalkaska, Michigan one summer when I was about 12. It was a lot of fun, but the down side was the swim camp portion was just a subset of the camp. The vast majority of the campers weren't there for swimming. It kind of sucked to have to swim twice a day when the other campers got to do other traditional camp activities. The swimmers got to do all that stuff, too, just not quite as much.

I went to John Trembley's camp at Mercersburg Academy back in the mid to late 80's a couple of times. It was interesting. The first year or so the emphasis was on getting your *** kicked by double workouts and it later evolved into more heavily technique-oriented clinic. I had a great time. Coach Trembley is a fantastic story teller (and, completely unrelated, had the most muscular calves I've ever seen). Mercersburg is a real throwback of a town (or it was in the 80s). We used to go into town and buy coke that came in re-usable bottles (something I had never seen before and never seen since). It tasted awesome. In fact, it looks like he still does it. www.mercersburg.edu/.../United_Swimming_Clinics.asp

UT(the real one) w/ Ray Bussard in the late 80's. ut(the other one) under Longhorn, Wolverine with Jim Richardson. In about 2 weeks, I am doing an adult master's camp with David Marsh and Kerry O'Brein(sp?) in Charlotte. Kerry is fantastic! (It's O'Brien) I'm thinking of doing his camp at Walnut Creek in March.

I was chosen to attend the White (1st Select Camp, past years has been called Bronze), Silver, Gold, and Eagle Select Camps at the Olympic Training Center as an age grouper. Each one was filled with new seminars, different challenges in the swim tank, and training at high altitude was a good experience seeing I was from So Cal. Not to mention all the people I got to meet over the years is priceless.

Is there any info on the web about the camp?

Is there any info on the web about the camp? Kirk, Wasn't sure which camp you're referring to but here's the 2008 info for the Walnut Creek camp. I'm certain the '09 camp will mirror this - perhaps some difference in coaching staff. It's currently scheduled for the first weekend (Fri nite-Sun) in March if I remember correctly. If not, it's a weekend away, either before or afterwards. www.teamunify.com/EventShow.jsp The WCM home page is www.swim4wc.org and the file is in the "photo" section. I've been to four of them in the past 9 years and come away enlightened each time. Great return on your investment.

I was interested in the WCM camp, but I'm also curious about the Charlotte one. There's no way I could make it this year, but still interested in the details.

No swim camps. Instead we would do one big travel meet a year, usually Omaha or Schraeder (Brown Deer, WI). My college had one during the summer but I never attended it.