Summer camp season underway around Juniata

Far from being deserted, the Kennedy Sports + Recreation Center and Juniata’s other athletic facilities can be busy places in mid-summer.

Take Friday, June 26, for example.

Head Coach Greg Curley’s basketball team camp got underway Friday afternoon with 20 teams in attendance. That kept three courts going in the KS+RC on a full-time basis. While most of the teams at camp were from central Pennsylvania, there were a couple from outside the region - including St. James School from Maryland.

Up on Winton Hill Fields, the Juniata soccer camp wrapped up on Friday with camper-versus-counselor games, in a 3-on-3 format. Approximately a dozen parents stopped by to watch the annual end-of-camp event, in which the campers in the upper age group actually upset their counselors.

Out on the tennis courts, Head Coach Beth Bleil’s Recreational Tennis Program is underway with a session that runs through July 2. The next session of Rec Tennis starts on July 13 and runs through July 30.

Five more camps will start up in the seven-day span following the Fourth of July holiday: soccer team camp, a pair of football camps, a women’s volleyball camp, and the Juniata field hockey camp.

For more information about any of the summer camp programs at Juniata, please return to the Athletics homepage (www.juniatasports.net) and click on the “Camps” link.

– Pete Lefresne, Sports Information Director