Today, in addition to individual instruction, games and clinics, the campers were looking forward to the Friday night campfire. At this weekly ritual teams perform skits and the camper/counselor of the week awards are given out. Additionally, the team with the cleanest rooms of the week are also announced.
The camper of the week award is given to one camper per team who performed outstanding all week long. This boy may have a few or all of the following qualities; good character, athleticism, thoughtfulness, dedication, heart, hustle, etc... This year's award is an embroidered ball cap that reads "Woodberry Sports Camp".
A counselor of the week was chosen as well. This counselor was referred to as "a work horse" by coach Alexander. He showed great effort, dedication and pride all week long. He was attentive to the campers and never turned down a chance to offer help. This counselor was awarded a "Woodberry Sports Camp" embroidered towel. Congratulations Ade Oyalowo, who is a first time counselor here at the camp!
This summer we're offering a daily strength training clinic. The campers are learning technique in order to build their "core" strength. An award was given to the camper who showed great ability, dedication and achievement in this area.
Tonight was the first of the skit performances. Teams from the Eastern conference along with the Penn State team bravely took center stage down at the bonfire site. First up was the Cavaliers of UVA. They quickly won over the crowd with their mocking of certain counselors and Coach Alexander. All in good fun of course. We saw skits from UNC, Florida and finally Penn State. At the conclusion of the evening a winner was chosen by judging the applause for each team that performed. UVA was the big winner for the night. For an opening bonfire, these skits were amazing. The counselors and the campers are quite creative and certainly not shy! I'll bet some of you didn't even know you had a comedic thespian in the house. The winning team receives a pizza party this week.
Finally, another pizza party is awarded weekly to the team that has the cleanest rooms all week long. Daily Coach Hannenburg inspects dorm rooms after breakfast and assigns a score based on cleanliness. The beds need to be made, the fans are to be turned off and dirty clothes need to be put into a laundry bag. The scores are tallied weekly. The higher the score, the messier the room , so the idea is to have a low score. The lowest score this week went to the Tarheels of UNC. They were thrilled. Good job Coach Al Williams and his UNC team!
We've managed to escape poor weather this week. Although it was warmer today than any other day, the boys played hard and drank plenty of fluids. It looks as though the temperature should dip back into the mid 80's over the next few days. This is how we like it. We've been blessed and are truly thankful.
