cUL cAMP 2015

14/8/2015

This year's Cúl Camp ran from August 10th to 14th on the sunny grounds of Club Aras. Almost 180 children ranging from 5 to 13 yrs got together for a week of fun, games, sport and most of all, memories. We had children from all over the world, from Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Fuerteventura, and from some of our local clubs. The emphasis this year was on fun and plenty fun is what they had! This camp is a very important part of their development in sport, as all the kids had 4 different coaches and helpers every day and would only have met each coach twice (at most) over the week. There was 13 coaches all together, so each day the children got a different style of coaching along with different drills (and a different voice) to their own regular coaches, which made a nice change for all. On Friday, Youghal/Cork hurling star Bill Cooper and Killeagh/Cork camogie star, Laura Tracey called to see all the children, take pictures, sign autographs etc. Luckily for them, they escaped before a little water fight took place!! All in all, it was a great week where the children had fun, made new friends and got a taste of our national sport. A big thanks must go out to all who helped over the week, to all the parents who patrolled the field all week. To the first aiders who gave up their precious days off to be on site, thank you. A bid thanks to Aine Martin for all your help with the coaching plan etc. and to the staff of Club Aras for having the fields/club in perfect condition for this all to go ahead. Thank you to everyone. This year's Cúl Camp coordinator was Catriona Hill and club coach John Bulman was the head coach for the week. They would love any feed back/ideas that may help improve the camp going forward. This year's coaches were -