England Lacrosse COVID-Secure Summer Camps a Success!

The England Lacrosse girls’ summer camp programme for 2020 finished last week, with over 450 girls attending some 22 day camps across four weeks throughout July and August.

In mid June, we announced that we’d been working since the prevalence of the coronavirus outbreak to plan a summer camp programme which could be delivered with the Government COVID-19 restrictions. 

We decided that, with social distancing restrictions in place and in order to maintain a fun and engaging curriculum, camps would run on a 2-day programme schedule with no form of residential camp.

We gained approval to follow the Department for Education’s (DfE) guidelines that detail protective measures for out-of-school holiday camps and ensured all protocols were in place to keep our girls and coaches as safe as possible.

Upon arrival, girls were directed to our dedicated summer camps team who checked and noted everyone’s temperature.

As per the Government guidelines, the camps operated a ‘pod’ system with campers being allocated a ‘pod’ based on age, ability and friendship requests.

Campers remained in these ‘pods’ in their allocated pitch space for the two days and were overseen by their own pod-specific coach.

Time spent doing activities inside was kept to a minimum to further reduce the risk of possibly transmitting the virus.

One camp host, Charterhouse School, said they were delighted with the way the summer camps went ahead this year.

“Despite the inevitable concerns arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, we were very impressed with the comprehensive measures put in place and the professionalism displayed by the team on the ground delivering the course.  

“There were plenty of coaches on hand to welcome the players and explain to them exactly what was expected of them from a social distancing and hygiene perspective, and as ever, the overall organisation was smooth and professional”.

England Lacrosse are extremely pleased that so many girls were able to get back onto the lacrosse field after such a long time away and delighted the guidelines in place were adhered to and kept everyone safe while at the camps!

Triple Arrow Easter Camp Programme Postponed

In light of the current COVID-19 situation and following government advice, England Lacrosse has taken the decision to suspend its nationally run lacrosse activity until further notice. 

The suspension includes all our competitions and domestic events, player pathway activity and youth programmes.

This suspension also applies to the Triple Arrow Lacrosse Camp Programme.

England Lacrosse have been communicating with the host venues for this Easter’s Camp programme and we are continuing to ensure all camps will be rearranged for summer 2020. 

As soon as dates are confirmed we will communicate these on the Triple Arrow and England Lacrosse websites as well as on social media.

Anybody who already had a place on an Easter Camp will be offered a transfer to any one of the summer camps for 2020; alternatively, full refunds will be provided if a camper has already booked their summer 2020 position. 

 We appreciate your cooperation and patience during this time and we aim to confirm dates for rearranged camps as soon as possible and commence plans for transfers and refunds. 

For the full England Lacrosse statement regarding COVID-19, please visit www.englandlacrosse.co.uk.

If you require any further information please contact Kerrie Lawler directly on k.lawler@englandlacrosse.co.uk or 07811336823.

Triple Arrow Camps Enter 25th Year

A lot can happen in a quarter of a century but one thing you can be sure of is that you’ll be able to attend a Triple Arrow Camp in the summer.

And as of 2019, you now have the option to attend a Triple Arrow Camp during the Easter holidays too!

The only set of official England Lacrosse holiday camps, Triple Arrow has reached its 25th birthday and to celebrate we’re hosting more camps than ever before and we want more girls from around the country to take part.

In those 25 years, lacrosse has grown exponentially with over 40 thousand people now playing lacrosse on a regular basis and over half of that number made up of school players.

Athletes who attended Tripe Arrow Camps when they were younger made appearances at the 2001, 2005, 2009, 2013, and 2017 World Lacrosse Championships, meaning the England national set-up has undoubtedly benefitted from the long-running camps.

The camps are led by some of the best coaches in England and sometimes they’re even visited by overseas players/coaches such as Team USA/STX player and all-round legend of the game, Michelle Tumolo, who imbibed her knowledge at the St. Swithun’s camp last summer.

None of the successes of the camps would be possible without the huge amount of young athletes who attend every year and England Lacrosse want to thank every single girl who has been to a Triple Arrow Camp over the past 25 years!

Happy birthday Triple Arrow; here’s to another 25!

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