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Softball summer camps

CAMDEN - The Rutgers University-Camden Annual Summer Softball Camp, for youths ages 8-18, will be held in two sessions this summer at Rutgers-Camden Community Park.

A Skills Camp will be held July 10-12, 2006 from 9 a.m. to noon. A Pitching Camp will be held August 7-9, 2006 from 9 a.m. to noon.

The camp staff will include Rutgers-Camden Head Coach Carl Taylor, his assistant coaches Megan Johnston and Brian Wolverton and selected players.

The cost of the camp is $100 per session or $160 for both sessions. Registration is accepted on a first-come/first-served basis. For more information contact Taylor at 609-410-6977 or by email at Carl Taylor

Summer baseball camp

CAMDEN - Rutgers University-Camden Head Coach Keith Williams will conduct the annual Summer Instructional Baseball Camp at Rutgers University-Camden Community Park and Campbell's Field in Camden. The camp will run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. daily from Monday, July 17 to Friday, July 21, 2006.

Registration is on a first-come/first-served basis. The cost is $165 per camper with discounts offered for alumni, faculty, early registration, or multiple family members. In addition, the registration fee includes a ticket to a Camden Riversharks game on Thursday, July 20.

For more information or a registration form:

Baseball camp

Strength and Conditioning Camp

CAMDEN - The Raptor Strength and Conditioning Camp, under the direction of Rutgers University-Camden Director of Performance Enhancement Graig White, holds weekly sessions on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at the Rutgers-Camden gym. The camp is geared toward helping athletes get the most from their abilities by improving performance, decreasing the risk of injury and imparting knowledge of what it takes to get to, and stay at, the next level.

Speed and agility are skills that can be learned. Each session will focus on drills that will enhance numerous attributes such as first-step quickness, linear acceleration and deceleration, vertical jumping and landing. The Raptor Strength and Conditioning Camp will show students how to create and exert power and strength on many different planes and body angles.

The camp also will focus on strength training. Students will start by learning proper techniques and then move to more specific strength training moves that have been utilized for years by athletes all over the world.

"All of our protocols are exact and really challenging," White said. "When implemented correctly they will prove to be very rewarding. Every protocol places a premium on education, learning the psychology of why we are doing everything that we are doing and its benefit. When an athlete leaves our training facility they will know exactly what it is they need to do to get where they want to be."

Registration is on-going, with the request that each athlete makes a four-week commitment to the camp. That commitment includes two sessions each week. Space is limited to 10 campers on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information or to register, call White at 856-225-2743.