Here a couple campers pose for a picture

We love smiling faces here at Think Detroit PAL

Here are the boys playing lacrosse after lunch

This week was the lacrosse camp for Think Detroit PAL. I was very excited to see so many kids sign up for this sport that has been recently new to the state of Michigan. Warrior lacrosse helped out the camp by donating not only boys lacrosse sticks, but the girls field hockey sticks also, to which the campers get to take home and use for years to come. They also donated enough lacrosse balls and the jerseys for every camper, and gave away equipment and t-shirts as prizes. It was really cool to see such a big company caring so much about the youth. To help teach the camp, a couple coaches from the surrounding area schools came along with a couple of their players. The coach from Brother Rice high school, the coach from U of D Jesuit, and players from Eastern Michigan, Grand Valley, Farris and Michigan State all came to help out. As well as a bunch of other players who play for their club teams. Like I said before, it was great to see so many people care for the kids. I know that some of the kids don't realize it yet, but sports are very important, and to have people there at those levels teaching them is such a great honor.

It was my first experience seeing a camp being put on, to where I didn't have to coach it, and it was a great experience. There is so much preparation that goes into these camps. Every day each kid received lunch, to which had to be picked up and put out for the kids to receive, tables needed to be washed, water jugs had to be filled, water bottles had to be given out, registration was still going on, and at the end of the day, EVERYTHING needed to be cleaned up and prepared to do it all over again the next day. I have a lot of respect for the people running the camps and the directors. Think Detroit PAL does a great job of having great people to work all of these. The last week in August is the soccer camp and I’m hoping to be part of the planning action for that.

Hope everyone has a great rest of the day and a great weekend.
Thanks
Mariel