Category Archives: Camp

” . . . soccer socks on (if not their shoes)”

Atticus Hoffman is a 16-year-old soccer player in Boise. He runs a week-long soccer camp for refugee children in his city, which is a “relocation center”. In his third year of operation, he’s done tremendous good in providing a fun experience for children who’ve seen atrocities in their native countries. One child explained how in [...]

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College Summer Camps: Pros and Con$

College soccer camp brochures are arriving fast and furious at the Watson household these days. I really think that marketing of these camps may be the salvation of the United States Postal Service! In the middle school years, teammates  parents of teammates of Sherlock and Holmes bragged about how hard their kids worked at Ralph [...]

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