One volleyball camp is dedicated to commitment at an early age to faster growth and development in the game. The Future Comet Volleyball Camp is back for another summer at Bellows Free Academy- St. Albans (BFA St. Albans) High School. It’s a weeklong training session for elementary and middle school students between the ages of third and eighth grade to improve their fundamental skills. “The drills that they’re doing focus on specific things, so you can better at those specific things, which help a lot,” said BFA St. Albans Eighth Grader Ellis Montgomery. “It involves passing, hitting, setting communication, working with other people that you don’t really know,” said another BFA St. Albans eighth-grader Harper Heald. Each day, the players are working on a different skill. Monday, they start the week working on offense and attacking. Tuesday features a greater focus on serving. Wednesday focuses on passing and defense. Thursday will focus more on setting up to the final day on Friday which is focused on gameplay and scrimmaging. BFA Junior Varsity Head Coach Lauren Liberatore is a part of the team of BFA coaches and current varsity players who help organize and run the camps. She says providing a weeklong opportunity to develop the younger athletes in the summer goes a long way in preparing them for when they become high school varsity volleyball players one day. “It’s been increasingly getting more competitive year after,” Liberatore said. “It’s interesting to see these kids in here touching a volleyball that is bigger than their head, but if we want to keep up to the competition, they have to start early. If they want to and they like it than we’re going to keep running it.” The Future Comet Volleyball Camp will continue at BFA St. Albans until Friday, Aug. 5.
One volleyball camp is dedicated to commitment at an early age to faster growth and development in the game.
The Future Comet Volleyball Camp is back for another summer at Bellows Free Academy- St. Albans (BFA St. Albans) High School. It’s a weeklong training session for elementary and middle school students between the ages of third and eighth grade to improve their fundamental skills.
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“The drills that they’re doing focus on specific things, so you can better at those specific things, which help a lot,” said BFA St. Albans Eighth Grader Ellis Montgomery.
“It involves passing, hitting, setting communication, working with other people that you don’t really know,” said another BFA St. Albans eighth-grader Harper Heald.
Each day, the players are working on a different skill. Monday, they start the week working on offense and attacking. Tuesday features a greater focus on serving. Wednesday focuses on passing and defense. Thursday will focus more on setting up to the final day on Friday which is focused on gameplay and scrimmaging.
BFA Junior Varsity Head Coach Lauren Liberatore is a part of the team of BFA coaches and current varsity players who help organize and run the camps. She says providing a weeklong opportunity to develop the younger athletes in the summer goes a long way in preparing them for when they become high school varsity volleyball players one day.
“It’s been increasingly getting more competitive year after,” Liberatore said. “It’s interesting to see these kids in here touching a volleyball that is bigger than their head, but if we want to keep up to the competition, they have to start early. If they want to and they like it than we’re going to keep running it.”
The Future Comet Volleyball Camp will continue at BFA St. Albans until Friday, Aug. 5.
