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Typical Daily Schedule:7:00-8:30 Breakfast
9:30 Day Campers Arrive
9:30-12:15 Morning workout session
12:15-1:45 Lunch & optional swimming
3:00-6:00 Afternoon workout session
5:30 - 6:00 Day Campers picked up at fieldhouse
6:00-6:45 Dinner
8:00- Evening Activity
Evening activities include: Track Trivia, Raft & Swim Relays, Talent Show, and an Oldies Dance.
For complete camp schedule, click here
Day campers
should arrive at the field house each morning at 9:45. Lunch is included in
the day camper tuition, but they do not get breakfast or dinner. Day campers
should be picked up each evening at the field house between 5:15 and 5:45.
They are encouraged to attend the evening activities.
Transportation:
Bowdoin College is 35 miles from Portland , 140 miles northeast of Boston
, and 360 miles from New York City . Limousine service is available from the
Portland Airport to the Bowdoin College campus.
Training Shoes
Spikes (with 1/8 inch spikes)
Shorts (4)
T-Shirts (6)
Long Sleeved Shirt
Sweatshirt
Sweatpants
Socks (6)
Swim Suit
Towels (2)
Toothbrush & toothpaste
Floss
Optional:
Musical Instrument for Talent Show
Room fan
Sunglasses
Hat
Sunscreen
Water bottle
Discouraged:
- IPods
- DVD's, videos, etc.
- All rooms can be locked, but it is better if you do not bring anything very valuable or expensive to camp. Expensive electronic devices become targets for theft.
- Electronic devices and video games get in the way of your camp experience. It's better to be part of the camaraderie of camp without the distraction of electronic devices.
The track camp provides pillows, sheets, and blankets.
Bowdoin College provides all major facilities and equipment for track camp, but field event campers should bring implements for the shot put, discus, javelin, hammer, and pole vault. Vaulters must bring and wear helmets.
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DIRECTIONS TO TRACK CAMP REGISTRATION:
20 College Street, Brunswick, ME 04011
Registration will be held by our dorms. They do not exactly have a street address, but you can do a MapQuest or GPS search using 20 College Street in Brunswick, Maine. Both those directions will bring you into the parking lot right next to our dorm. This parking lot is named campus drive. Such directions are printed below:
FROM THE SOUTH & WEST:295 North to Exit 28 - Coastal Route 1 Brunswick/BathDrive along the exit ramp which will merge with US Route 1 after a mile.Drive through two traffic lights a little more than a mile.After the second light you will pass a Shell gasoline station. You want to be in the right lane after the Shell station.When you reach the third light and the Sunshine Laundromat, take a right turn. This is Stanwood Street.Stay on this street across the railroad tracks.Stay on Stanwood Street a half mile up to some tennis courts until you come to a stop sign at a "T" intersection.Take a left turn at the stop sign onto McKeen Street.Drive straight on McKeen for a half mile through one stop sign until you get to second stop sign at another "T" intersection. You will see the college straight ahead. This is Maine Street. Take a right turn on Maine Street.Drive south on Maine Street 300 meters past one left turn to College Street which will be the first left turn.Check in will be at the first left turn off of college street. It is a parking lot called campus road.
FROM THE NORTH & EAST295 south to exit 31A Topsham and route 196, or otherwise be on route 196 in Topsham.Travel on route 196 for one mile past Interstate 295, and then turn right on Route 201. Follow signs to Brunswick's Maine Street.Drive down the hill over a mile to the bridge leading into Brunswick. Continue on Maine Street another mile through downtown Brunswick up past a large cream-colored church. This church and a statue of Joshua Chamberlain on your left are on the corner of the Bowdoin College campus.Stay straight on Maine street after the church. The college will be on your left. You will pass 5 brick college buildings. Take the next left turn onto College Street. There should be some special event signs on the corner of Maine Street and College Street.Right after you turn onto College Street, take your first left turn to the parking lot called campus road. Check in is adjacent to the parking lot.
The Portland International Jetport which is served by
* Business Express (Tel: 207-773-1640)
* Continental Express
* Delta Airlines
* Northwest
* US Air
* United Airlines
Mermaid Transportation Co., Inc. provides daily service to and from the Portland Jetport and Boston's Logan Airport. Coastal Transportation provides limited door-to-door bus service and a shuttle bus service operates in between Bath-Brunswick-Topsham.
