Explore the Benefits of Working at a Sports Summer Camp

1.     Teach Others How to Enjoy the Sport You Love

As an athlete, there’s no more rewarding summertime gig than sharing your most beloved pastime with a group of enthusiastic youth. Not only do you get to improve your own game by educating others, but you become a mentor, a coach and a friend. You will be the vehicle through which kids can learn team-building, leadership and social skills, critical thinking, communication and fitness. Think about how a particular hobby shaped your character or values, or a coach who supported you through a particularly rough time. Aside from the awesomeness of coaching sports as a job, consider the empowerment and professional development opportunities for your resume (and your life) that you could obtain through working at a sports summer camp.

2.     Improve Athletic Skills and Game

If you live, eat, sleep, breathe, sweat and bleed soccer, you can spend your summer devoted to expanding your community’s love of the best sport in the world, or preparing an elite squadron of toned athletes for total domination. If you just love the general idea of spending the summer outside running around with an energetic group of short people, some sports summer camps are totally diversified in their programming. Start the day with tennis or badminton and tucker campers out with a rousing kickball tournament in the afternoon. Either style of camp you choose will help improve athletic skills, fitness, teamwork and mental sharpness for your youth. You may find such effects rub off on you as well!

3.     Flexible Schedules and On Site Lodging

If you’re not already sold on sports summer camp jobs and perusing the CampPage directory (http://www.camppage.com/summer-camp-jobs/), it’s possible that you haven’t yet thought of the flexible schedules and other savings. While you’re probably not going to start your 401k with a sports summer camp contract, the perks at some of these camps can be outstanding. Ask your future employer about on-site accommodations, meals, camp gear, nap time and maybe even pony rides (not very common, but one never knows until one asks).

Submit Your Resume to a Variety of Sports Summer Camps

Even if you have played and coached basketball your entire life and just started cross-training with ping pong over the winter, you will find that many of your skills will cross over as you apply for sports summer camp jobs. You can quickly adapt to a new sport, but the fundamentals of being a good counselor – responsibility, relating to kids, attention to detail (i.e. making sure you start and end each day with the same number of kids), experience, etc. – may qualify you for a variety of sports summer camps. Open yourself up to a myriad of opportunities on www.camppage.com.