The Weekly Camp Roundup! WEEK 3

REC CAMP ~ "Anything Can Happen" Week

Jen's Group - The funnest part of this week was the theme, "Anything Can Happen." It was fun to push the coaches into the pit while practicing our new gymnastics skills. We also had tons of fun on the zipline, bungee, and waterslides. "Everything was fun!" says camper Camille Skala.

Hassan's Group - Favorite Things:

- Pushing the coaches into the pit (Anonymous)

- Seeing Andrei let go of the zipline into the pit (Sydney)
- Ropes, tumble trak, getting wet on the water slides (Annie)

- Water fights with coaches and the water slide (Annika)

- Water fights with coaches and learning new gymnastics (Jordyn)

- Water slides, learning gymnastics and the Magician! (Mae and Livia)

Preschool - Exxcel's preschool campers have accomplished so much this week! Our theme was "Anything Can Happen" - in addition to gymnastics, we were suprised with silly string, threw water balloons at coaches, enjoyed the bungee and the trapeze, experiemented with science, and even made our own play-dough...just to name a few!

Team 1 - Eighty degree weather, Hassan breaking out his orange shorts, Tanya's field conditioning & water slide...oh yes summer camp '09 has officially begun. Although the constant brouhaha of summer camp makes us feel like we are "livin' la vida loca", team 1 is going strong. Camila Hernandez marked her name in exxcel gymnastics history when she established a summer camp world record for cast handstands in a row, with an astounding 13! You go girl! One of our fellow team members, Megan Lapp, who traveled intranationally this year to take on the best of the east in Tupelo, will be traveling internationally, this time, to Costa Rica next week. Have fun Megusha! Week 3 marked the first week that we performed both individual group dances and a team dance, and also marked our first trip to our beloved field for conditioning. Other highlights of the week included Franc the magician coming in and turning a balloon into a rabbit; he is quite an entertainer! Overall it was a stellar week for us and we can't wait for more to come!

Team 2 - This week was a blast! We had so much fun at the waterslides. We finally splashed Rustam after many days of trying! We went to the JCC and played very fun games such as categories and dibble. We had so much fun learning new skills and accomplishing goals. We can't wait for next week!

Team 3 - Highlights:

Margeaux - "I got my roundoff 3 backhandsprings," Dallas - "I landed front tuck on tramp," Caitlin - "I like camp especially when I get new skills," Sarah - "I got handstand back tuck off high beam," Ayana - "I got my gainer"