Frostburg Soccer Camps

Frostburg Soccer Team Camp

The Perfect Pre-Season Soccer Experience for
High School or Club Teams

at Frostburg State University
in early August

Teams that have attended our camp over the years include:
FC Frederick, Aberdeen, Cambridge-S. Dorchester, Clear Spring, Fort Hill, Good Counsel, Elizabeth Seton, Calvert, Kent Island, Linganore, North Point, Severna Park, Winters Mill, Poolesville, Hancock, N. Hagerstown, and Frederick High Schools.

1. Limited Enrollment

+ 2. A Staff of Only College Coaches

+ 3. Innovative College Prep & Teambuilding Workshops

+ 4. Customized Team Training

+ 5. Plush Irrigated Fields & Rooms with A/C

+ 6. Team Coaches that can attend for Free

= A Truly Unique Soccer Experience

Call or e-mail the Director for more information or to apply for your team:

Brian Parker, FSU Women’s Soccer Coach

301-687-4356 or director@frostburgsoccercamps.com

*What’s Still So Different About Our Camp?*
1	We Are Selective: Enrollment is limited in the Frostburg Team Camp. We have designing a unique program that provides customized and innovative soccer and teambuilding activities on the best fields on our campus. We are not just a for-profit soccer business that is after the bottom-line, but a soccer program interested in sharing knowledge and our passion for the game.
2	We Guarantee a College Coach will train Your Team for Every Session: Our staff is comprised ONLY of U.S. college coaches with experience in all three NCAA Divisions! We do not have paid "trainers" or current players responsible for providing instruction. Players and teams will be instructed and evaluated in all training sessions and games by coaches with college coaching experience who clearly understand and will convey the demands of the collegiate game.
3	We Provide Unique College Prep and Teambuilding Activities: Every day at our camp, a unique seminar or activity is conducted with all campers to educate them on the college selection process and/or to help build team unity. By the end of camp, we guarantee that every high school aged camper will have a clearer understanding of the college selection process. Our professional staff also conducts unique teambuilding activities for each team throughout the week.
4	We Customize our Curriculum for Your Team's Needs: Our first priority is to improve your team’s play and prepare them for the upcoming season. We don’t teach you soccer “our way” but rather build training sessions and objectives to meet the immediate needs of your team. Our staff will work with each team's coaches and use their own daily evaluations to target the most urgent training needs for the team and players. We provide each team coach a complete written team evaluation with recommendations and player ratings by position. We also utilize certified officials to referee every full-sided game while at the camp.
5	We Use Only our Best Fields & All Rooms have A/C and Microwave/Refrigerator Units: All of the grass fields we use on the FSU campus are irrigated which makes them plush and green all summer! We also access our brand new Sprinturf Stadium field for evening games as well. We use ONLY air-conditioned rooms with microwave/refrigerator units for ALL campers and our dining services are outstanding.

Camp Director: Brian Parker
FSU Women's Soccer Coach Brian Parker is a 2-Time AMCC Conference Coach of the Year as his teams at FSU have won Conference Championships and appeared in the NCAA or ECAC Tournament in each of his six seasons at the helm. He has been coaching women's college, high school, ODP, or premier-level club teams for 18 years. He created and directed a select soccer club in central Maryland, was a Division I men's college assistant, has recently been on the MD ODP girls staff, and has been organizing and directing summer camp programs since 1993. In addition to having solid coaching credentials (a USSF "B" license and an NSCAA Premier Diploma), Parker was a MD High School girls coach for 7 years winning two regional championships. His complete bio from FSU is linked HERE

From the Source:

"The Frostburg camp provided an excellent preseason experience for my team. It has a well thought out and balanced format that provided a good mix of technical and tactical instruction and real game experience against other schools. The team building element made it an ideal high school team camp"
Jim Bruno, Good Counsel HS Coach and 1994 All-Met & 1998 National Coach of the Year

“The FSU camp provides a strong week of conditioning while giving athletes a technical and tactical edge prior to the season. The team building experience paid dividends for us throughout the year.”
Bryan Shumaker, former Winters Mills HS Coach and 1999 All-Met & MACS Coach of the Year

“There just isn't a camp like this in the region. Everything about the camp is done well and with an attention to detail you don't get at most camps. Our kids will be back again.”
Gary Lam, Severna Park HS Coach and 2002 All-Met & MACS Coach of the Year

“My daughter enjoyed your camp tremendously. She received superb coaching and had a good time. This is by far the best soccer camp that she has ever attended.”
Poolesville HS Parent

“The camp overall was a great learning experience. Even the dorms and food were great.”
Severna Park HS Player

Full 5-Day Camp Program and Specifics:

Our Cost:
$475 per camper - for 5 days from dinner on Sunday to Dinner on Thursday (3-Day Mini-Camps are also offered at a reduced rate)
The fee includes accommodations, meals, a camp shirt, and all materials associated with the college-prep workshops.

Registration:

The Easiest Registration Process You’ll Ever Experience!

After your team has been accepted, we'll set up a meeting for your players and their parents at or near your school and we’ll do the rest. You don’t have to make phone calls, collect checks, or arrange rooms. We’ll work directly with your players and families to do paper or on-line registration. Since the coach can attend for free, they just show up, eat, sleep, watch the sessions, and work with our staff to target your team’s training needs throughout the week. If you’re busy this week, feel free to send an assistant or a parent at our expense.

Our Location and Facility:
Frostburg State University is located in Frostburg, MD midway between Pittsburgh and the Baltimore/Washington area in the Allegheny Mountains of Western Maryland. It is conveniently located just off I-68 a little more than 2 hours from either metro area. Because of its location, the climate is much closer to that of Pittsburgh than the D.C. area. The soccer fields at FSU are all irrigated and kept in beautiful condition all summer. The residence halls are air-conditioned, have modern furniture, microwave/refrigerator units, cable TV, and are just steps from the Dining Hall. Teams will be housed in the same "quads" or 4-room halls that share a large bathroom. The Aramark-catered Dining Hall has a variety of hot entrees, a massive salad and soup bar, a cold-cut station, and fruit and sport drinks at every meal.

Our Curriculum and Daily Schedule:

7:45 - Breakfast

9:00- Speed and Agility Training

10:00-12:00 - Functional Field Sessions

12:00 - Lunch

2:00-3:30 - Tactical Team Field Sessions

4:30 - Dinner

6:00 - Evening Matches

9:00 - Lecture-Discussion/Seminars/Team Activities

11:30 - Lights Out

Functional field sessions include position-specific exercises and games designed to meet the demands of each unit of your team: forwards, midfielders, defenders, and your goalkeeper. Tactical team topics are different for each team and are chosen with the team coach and/or based on the team's evaluation at camp. Topics are certainly not limited to but may include:

-team shape and patterns of play	-playing with a "sweeper/keeper"
-playing high vs. low-pressure	-playing a direct or indirect style
-midfield possession	-flank play/crossing and heading
-playing with a 3-front	-zonal defending (w/ 3 vs 4 backs)

Our College-Prep Workshop addresses the following topics:

-what's important in choosing a college

-how to evaluate a college soccer program

-how to contact and what to ask a college coach

-differences in NCAA Divisions

-Resume and letter writing

Feel free to contact the camp Director with any questions or concerns:
Brian Parker, Office: 301-687-4356, or director@frostburgsoccercamps.com