One-Week Summer Sports Academies in Massachusetts

One-week sports camps for middle and early high school students who are relatively new to a sport, or who want to try a brand-new one. The week is built around intensive training rather than competition: days are given to coaching, team building and games, so that a beginner leaves understanding how the sport is actually played instead of having simply been introduced to it.

Each academy is sold as a one-week residential place on the school campus, covering the week’s coaching and the stay. The school has not published an itemised list of what the fee covers for these one-week academies — ask us and we will confirm it with them.

Students live on the Northfield Mount Hermon campus in twin rooms within the school residences, with staff on site for the week.

Meals are served on campus in the school dining hall during the academy week.

Alongside training the wider summer programme runs in the evenings: movie nights, cookouts and ice cream socials, with off-campus outings during the week.

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.

A short, deliberately unintimidating week. Because everyone arrives new to the sport, no one spends it catching up — and a student who was curious on Monday often leaves on Saturday having found the thing they want to keep doing.