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    Active Montgomery: Aqua Sports Camp

    Details

    • Listing Type: Summer Programs
    • Program Delivery: Day
    • Destination: United States
    • Provided By: Independent Provider
    • Session Start: June, July, August
    • Session Length: One Week, Other
    • Entering Grade: Below 6th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th
    • Gender: Coed
    • Category: Sports
    • Sub-Categories: Swimming, Water Sports
    • Selective: No
    • Ages: 12, 13, 14, 15
    • Minimum Cost: Free
    • Accreditation: American Camp Association
    • Credit Awarded: No
    • Location:Wheaton, Maryland
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    Overview

    Aqua Sports Camp is run by Mike Tober. Mr. Tober is a former NCAA All-American, 2 time gold medalist at the Maccabiah games in Israel, and USA National Dive Team coach.

    Immerse your child in swimming and fun sport activities this summer. Aqua Sports camp is designed to provide quality instruction and training to swimmers of all abilities. We’re dedicated to providing a swim and sport camp that is both instructional and informational along with creating a great atmosphere to learn and play!

    Swim training focuses on improving your child's strength, flexibility and endurance through stroke proficiency, good eating habits, mental training and individual discipline. Our goal is for each swimmer to have a rewarding total camp experience by taking every step possible to stimulate your love for swimming in a positive and healthy environment.

    Teaching the fundamentals of swimming isn't our only focus.  Aqua Sport camp has time for a few sports games too, like diving, trampoline, soccer, kickball and crafts and games!

    Reviews (1)

    • Do Not Send your child to Aqua Sports Camp
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      Reviewed on Aug/13/2015 by gjsail

      Do not send your child here.
      During the day there a several lulls in the activities where the children are left to mill about in one of the multi purpose rooms at the swim center. They put out 1 table with no chairs and call it craft time and the counselors just sit back and chat amongst themselves. The only interaction between the counselors and the children seems to be to yell at any child who gets bored and misbehaves. I had the misfortune to witness this when dropping off my children an hour late one day and picking them up early another. I quizzed the kids and lunch is the same. An hour where they do nothing but sit on the floor, play electronics, or cards and get bored while the counselors talk to each other.
      At lunch the counselors don't even bother getting out tables or chairs even though plenty were stacked against the walls. The kids are left to sit on the floor and given nothing to do if they finish early. All the while the counselors sit at their table, you guessed it, talk to each other.
      Same thing at the end of the day when they finish early to clean up before pick up and sit around doing nothing for 30 to 40 minutes.
      The counselors don't seem to do much better during activities either. From my children I gather they give a basic run down of a game, swim, dive, activity, etc and then stand back and watch.
      They are either being just plain lazy or think that their only job as counselor is to "watch" the children.
      I've tried to call the supervisor to talk about these issues but have not received any response.
      Between the lack of activities and borderline "abusive" disciplne I'm pulling my children from the camp early. Do not send your children hear.