GENERAL INFORMATION

Typical Daily Schedule:

- - - -7:00-8:30 Breakfast
- - - -9:30-12:15 Morning workout session
- - - -12:15-1:45 Lunch & optional swimming
- - - -3:00-6:00 Afternoon workout session
- - - -6:00-6:45 Dinner
- - - -8:00- Evening Activity

Evening activities include: Track Trivia, Raft & Swim Relays, Talent Show, and an Oldies Dance.

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Day campers should arrive at the field house each morning at 9:45. Lunch is included in the day camper tuition, but they do not get breakfast or dinner. Day campers should be picked up each evening at the field house between 5:15 and 5:45. They are encouraged to attend the evening activities.

Transportation:
Bowdoin College is 35 miles from Portland , 140 miles northeast of Boston , and 360 miles from New York City . Limousine service is available from the Portland Airport to the Bowdoin College campus.

What to bring:

Training Shoes
Spikes (with 1/8 inch spikes)
Shorts (4)
T-Shirts (6)
Long Sleeved Shirt
Sweatshirt
Sweatpants
Socks (6)
Swim Suit
Towels (2)
Toothbrush & toothpaste
Floss

Optional:

Musical Instrument for Talent Show
Room fan
Sunglasses
Hat
Sunscreen
Water bottle

Discouraged:

- IPods
- DVD's, videos, etc.
- All rooms can be locked, but it is better if you do not bring anything very valuable or expensive to camp.  Expensive electronic devices become targets for theft.
- Electronic devices and video games get in the way of your camp experience.  It's better to be part of the camaraderie of camp without the distraction of electronic devices.

The track camp provides pillows, sheets, and blankets.

Bowdoin College provides all major facilities and equipment for track camp, but field event campers should bring implements for the shot put, discus, javelin, hammer, and pole vault. Vaulters must bring and wear helmets.

DIRECTIONS TO TRACK CAMP REGISTRATION:
4 College Street or 7 South Street, Brunswick, ME 04011

Registration will be held in our dorm, Chamberlain Hall. Chamberlain Hall does not exactly have a street address, but you can do a MapQuest search using 7 South Street OR 4 College Street in Brunswick, Maine. Both those directions will bring you into parking lots right next to our dorm. Such directions are printed below:

FROM THE SOUTH & WEST:

295 North to Exit 28 - Coastal Route 1 Brunswick/Bath

Drive along the exit ramp which will merge with US Route 1 after a mile.

Drive through two traffic lights a little more than a mile.

After the second light you will pass a Shell gasoline station. You want to be in the right lane after the Shell station.

When you reach the third light and the Sunshine Laundromat, take a right turn. This is Stanwood Street.

Stay on this street across the railroad tracks.

Stay on Stanwood Street a half mile up to some tennis courts until you come to a stop sign at a "T" intersection.

Take a left turn at the stop sign onto McKeen Street.

Drive straight on McKeen for a half mile through one stop sign until you get to second stop sign at another "T" intersection. You will see the college straight ahead. This is Maine Street. Take a right turn on Maine Street.

Drive south on Maine Street 300 meters past one left turn to South Street which will be the second left turn.

Chamberlain Hall will be the first brick dorm on the left side of the South Street.


FROM THE NORTH & EAST

295 south to exit 31A Topsham and route 196, or otherwise be on route 196 in Topsham.

Travel on route 196 for one mile past Interstate 295, and then turn right on Route 201. Follow signs to Brunswick's Maine Street.

Drive down the hill over a mile to the bridge leading into Brunswick. Continue on Maine Street another mile through downtown Brunswick up past a large cream-colored church. This church and a statue of Joshua Chamberlain on your left are on the corner of the Bowdoin College campus.

Stay straight on Maine street after the church. The college will be on your left. You will pass 5 brick college buildings (one of which is under construction). Take the next left turn onto College Street. There should be some special event signs on the corner of Maine Street and College Street.

Right after you turn onto College Street, you can take either your first or second right turn to the Admissions Office parking lot. Our dorm is adjacent to the admissions office parking lot.