Basketball, soccer, tennis, bowling, Frisbee golf, archery, baseball, kickball, volleyball, or medic ball. Is it hard to decide what your favorite sport is?
Maybe you prefer arts and crafts or playing on a huge water slide?
If it’s still hard to decide which activity you prefer, you don’t have to - the Sportstyme summer sports camp at Independence Middle School in Jupiter offers all of those activities and more.
The Christian-based sports camp is wrapping up its third summer at Independence Middle School in Abacoa.
“We’ve averaged around 180 campers a week,” said camp director Christine Walther. “It’s a 20 percent increase from last year.”
A lot of campers sign on for more than one week, some were on board for all nine weeks.
“After they come for one week, the parents find out how much fun they’re having, they’ll sign them up for future weeks,” Walther said.
The camp is for boys and girls from 5 to 13 years old.
“We have split up into JV (5-7 year-olds) and Varsity (8-13 year-olds) so it’s almost like two camps in one,” said Walther.
“With the younger ones we do more games but we include sports. For the older group we do more sports and a few games,” she said.
“We offer an equal amount of outdoor and indoor sports. They always have one indoor and one outdoor activity so they aren’t outside too long in the heat.”
Campers are required to bring their own snacks and lunch.
Activities are usually done in half-hour blocks to try and get in eight activities a day.
For many, medic ball (a form of dodge ball) is their favorite activity but camper Timmy Perez prefers basketball.
“I love this camp,” Perez said. “It’s something to do besides sitting around at home on the couch being a couch potato and playing video games all day. That’s what I do when I get home.”
“Basketball is my favorite sport and next is football,” said Perez, 11, who plays basketball at St. Clare School.
Sports aside, all of the campers look forward to Thursday when a large inflatable water slide is set up.
College and high school students serve as the camp counselors and an art teacher conducts weekly arts and crafts classes.
Since it is Christian sports camp, a devotional period is conducted every day.
Camp sessions go from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. but early arrival and late stay options are available.
Lunch and arts and crafts activities are held indoors at the IMS cafeteria.
For details call Sportstyme at (561) 575-1228.
