Posted April 11, 2016 in Sports
If you play baseball at camp, you’ll know Ron Blomberg. Ron has partnered with NJY Camps for 10 years in their baseball camp and brings with him a seasoned career from the NY Yankees in the MLB and a temperament that makes him so suited to camp life. He’s fun, he’s encouraging and everyone is… (more)
Posted January 12, 2016 in Sports, Uncategorized
Herb Brown, as our specialty basketball camp coach, is a legend in the game. With a career spanning decades with the NBA, Herb was instrumental as an assistant coach with a number of franchise teams including the Portland Trail Blazers, Houston Rockets, Indiana Pacers, Phoenix Suns and Atlanta Hawks. He also had a spur as the head coach… (more)
Posted December 23, 2015 in Sports, Uncategorized
When it comes to learning chess at camp, you can’t beat hands on instruction from an international Grandmaster! Gregory Kaidanov, who grew up in Russia, now resides in Lexington, Kentucky, perhaps not the most expected of places to find a Jewish chess Grandmaster! So we caught up with the great Gregory to hear his story… (more)
Posted December 10, 2015 in Sports, Uncategorized
If you’ve been in Max Seibald’s lacrosse camp, it would be a safe bet to assume that Max is the kind of athlete who things have always come easy to. You would probably think that growing up, Max could have had his pick at which sport he focused on becoming a professional athlete in. After all, the accolades… (more)
Posted November 25, 2015 in Sports, Uncategorized
Since 2006, Lenny Krayzelburg has partnered with the NJY Camps in running the Lenny Krayzelburg Specialty Swim Camp. It was after retiring from competitive swimming that Lenny started his own learn-to-swim program which has now been adopted by 14 different JCCs across the country. Still, NJY Camps’ Specialty Swim Camp is the only program that features Lenny… (more)
Posted November 18, 2015 in Sports, Uncategorized
Campers and staff at the NJY Camps in Milford and specifically in our STEM Camp will know Adit Ganot for her famous smile. And for those who wake up early enough, they might see her jogging around camp. Jogging is probably an understatement – Adit runs through camp, and at quite a pace too! That would… (more)
Posted November 5, 2015 in Sports, Uncategorized
Before Shlomo Glickstein, there were no other Israelis that had made it in the world of Tennis and it was his career that paved the way for others who came after him. Since 2012, the NJY Camps has partnered with Shlomo Glickstein, who is the current president of the Israeli Tennis Association. Each summer since,… (more)