It's a lot of good training. Dick Bartolomea, sport camps coordinator, explained there are no Penn State students living in East Halls during the summer. And it's no wonder. The popularity of his program has driven more than 16,000 campers to Penn State this summer, making Penn State Sport Camps among the biggest sports camps in the nation, he said. In the football camp alone there are 1,700 young players.
Campers live in same-sex dormitories, two to a room, with at least one coach per floor.
The girls and boys live on opposite sides of East Halls. Penn State provides a shuttle bus to pick up campers from the airport and return them when their camp session is over. And for refunding purposes, homesickness is treated like any other illness if a student must leave a camp before it is over. And off the fields, courts, rinks and courses, campers are encouraged to take advantage of University Park campus facilities, including the outdoor pool at McCoy Natatorium. I think it's great.