GameBreaker Lacrosse camp focuses on fun and skills

The GameBreaker lacrosse camp in Rehoboth Beach July 24-27 added a girls’ camp this year and recruited Division I Temple players and sisters Anna and Lizzie Frederick to serve as coaches. Both Anna, a graduated senior, and Lizzie, a rising sophomore, were stars at Cape, both playing on four straight state championship teams.

The campers, both boys and girls, are mostly startup young guns who require lots of individual instruction, and a variety of skills and drills to keep their attention.

“The kids are just so precious,” said Anna Frederick, who will student teach a kindergarten class this fall on the rim of downtown Chinatown in Philadelphia. “A couple showed up with little sticks and nerf balls. A couple of others had sticks from their older brothers. I’m taking the youngest ones, I think; I have more patience than Lizzie,” who sneered sideways at her older sister.

Camp Director Mark Duncan played at Lehigh and is head coach of the Shipley School on the Philadelphia Main Line. Duncan has a master’s degree from Whittier College in California - the Poets - Cape’s Corey Schab played there.

Mike McDonald, a face-off specialist at Michigan from Middlebury Academy in Centreville, Va., was the chief instructor for the boys’ camp. Mike is an earth and environmental science major who works four to five camps in the summer. His parents have a place at the beach.

“Teach fundamentals and keep it fun,” McDonald said. “We want all these kids to have a great experience.”   

The stars of summer camps are always the kids, and keeping it fun is right in their wheelhouse. Best to listen when they talk.

“I’m going into first grade,” said Kyle Morgan. When asked where, he said, “I don’t know,” but two minutes later he blurted, “I just remembered, Rehoboth, right over there!”