StFX to host summer soccer camp

Antigonish, NS – StFX University and X-Women soccer are set to host the 8th annual StFX Soccer Camp next week, July 13-18 at the campus in Antigonish.

Camp Director and X-Women soccer head coach Trevor Reddick is excited for this year’s camp and comments, “This is our eighth year of running the camp and we have been growing consistently every year.”

“It is a great camp for the local youth of the community and is great for the university and the StFX soccer program. Every year we try to get different X-Women and X-Men soccer players coordinating the camp to give them experience at running a large event and every year they do a phenomenal job.”

This year’s camp will run Monday through Saturday, July 13-18 and features a mini camp for boys and girls aged 4-7, day camp for youth aged 8 years and up and overnight camp for youth aged 12 years and up. Reddick is pleased to see an increase in the overall number of campers this year, in particular the overnight campers.

Along with Coach Reddick, X-Men soccer head coach Graham Kennedy will be an instructor along with several X-Women and X-Men soccer players. Among them are assistant camp directors Allie Anderson (Antigonish, NS), a veteran striker with the X-Women, along with X-Women goaltender Anna Thompson (Calgary, AB). Two-time AUS first team all-star and former AUS Rookie of the Year Miroslav Novak (Prague, Czech Republic) of the X-Men soccer squad will also be an instructor.

“All of the instructors are really looking forward to camp this year,” comments Allie Anderson who was this year’s StFX Female Community X-cellence award winner. “It is always a great week, we have many returning campers and also many new campers from all over the province.”

Activities planned throughout the week include specific soccer drills to improve techniques such as dribbling, shooting, passing and heading; game instruction; competitions; daily awards; evaluation and a parents versus campers barbeque to conclude the week. All campers will receive a StFX Soccer camp T-shirt and a soccer ball.

For parents still wanting to register their children for the StFX soccer camp, they can do so by contacting Coach Reddick at treddick@stfx.ca. Further information on the camp is available here.