Summer Athletics Intensive in Massachusetts

A two-week intensive for athletes who already play their sport and want to train at it properly. Mornings are spent working with coaches. Afternoons move to the theory that makes training stick — anatomy for athletes, careers in athletics, and team building and leadership — and each evening adds a practice session or a scrimmage, so the day ends with the work applied rather than described.

The fee covers training, room and board, linens and laundry, course equipment, on-campus activities, off-campus excursions and internet access. Health insurance and personal spending are not covered.

Athletes live on the Northfield Mount Hermon campus in twin rooms within the school residences, with staff on site throughout the intensive.

Full board on campus — breakfast, lunch and dinner in the school dining hall, included in the fee.

Beyond training, the wider summer programme runs in the evenings and at weekends: movie nights, cookouts and ice cream socials, swimming, whitewater rafting, a day at Six Flags and a day exploring historic Boston.

Training uses the school’s sports hall and outdoor fields on a residential New England campus, with dining hall, laundry and campus-wide internet access.

Two weeks in which an athlete trains twice a day and spends the middle of it learning how a body and a career in sport actually work. The evening scrimmages are the point: the morning’s coaching gets tested the same day, in front of teammates who arrived from other countries and other leagues.