The
Middle School Track Camp is located on a beautiful wooded peninsula that
extends a half mile into
Panther Pond. The 90 acre peninsula is criss-crossed by trails that
run through an oak, birch, hemlock, and white pine forest. The forest
trail system criss-crosses the peninsula and follows the shore of the lake
before connecting with over twenty miles of trails in the beautiful Sebago lake
region of Maine.
Distance runners will use a ten mile mix of trails, roads, hills, and
dirt roads around Panther Pond in the beautiful
Sebago Lake Region of Maine.
Throwers will practice on a professionally constructed throwing circle on the
edge of our large athletic field. The circle is shaded by towering pine
trees and the viewing area is protected by heavy duty chain link fence.
Vaulters will jump on our wooden raised runway which gives extra spring to
jumps and is easy on joints. The pole vault pit is nestled into the corner
of our field so that it is shaded from the sun and protected from the wind.
Long and triple jumpers will practice in our sawdust jumping pit and grass
runway.
High jumpers and hurdlers will practice on our expansive athletic field using
college-level equipment.
Cross-training,
speed, and
strength & conditioning exercises are conducted on our expansive athletic
field, grass hillsides, and
natural beach.
The
field and hillsides where many of our drills are done lie on
sandy soil that drains quickly. The edges of the 5000 square yard field
are shaded by
towering pine trees. Speed and conditioning games such as
tug-of-war and capture the flag are played in the field.
The
slopes of the hillside allow us to conduct hill sprinting exercises on a variety
of gentle uphill and downhill grades.
The
natural beach is flat, wide, fifty meters long, and composed of fine
golden sand that makes it a great site for swimming, beach volleyball,
and running drills.
The
camp dining hall sits on the shore so that every table has a view of
Panther Pond through large screened windows.
Campers
stay overnight in ten airy screened cabins that are as close as fifteen yards from
the beach and no more than forty yards from the beach. Girls' cabins are on
one side of the beach, and boys' cabins are on the other. Cabins are supervised
by the residential counselor staff every night. Campers fall asleep at
night to the sound of breezes rustling through the pine trees and waves lapping
up against the shore.