A cross country camp is on tap Aug. 1-4 at Allen Community College.
ACC head cross country coach Vince DeGrado announced he will conduct the Red Devil Cross Country Camp. DeGrado is in his second season as Red Devil head coach.
“When I was an assistant coach at Cowley (Community College) I ran a cross country camp and was successful in drawing high school runners to it to work with,” DeGrado said.
The camp is offered as a day camp for $145 or as an overnight camp for $175 per participant. There is also a team discount rate of $125 per camper if five or more runners come to camp.
The purpose of the camp is to provide knowledge of training techniques for success in cross country. There will be morning and evening runs, classroom sessions on running topics, running cross country trails and recreation periods.
DeGrado said each runner will receive a gait analysis using Dartfish video softball.
The fee for the day camp covers meals, camp T-shirt and water bottle, copy of running material and analysis. The overnight fee is more for the housing.
Registration for the camp is from 5 to 6:30 p.m. at Horton Residence Hall at ACC. Daily sessions run from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. Thursday and Friday and from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Saturday.
For more information contact DeGrado by email or telephone at degrado@allencc.edu or 620-228-2346.
DeGrado was the 2010 men’s and women’s cross country national coach of the year while at Cowley Community College in Arkansas City.
