I really miss the good old days back in BSC with the boys. I went to college here in Spain and graduated last year with a Double Degree in Business and Law. I had the opportunity to attend one semester at Tulane University, in New Orleans, to study Finance and it was great. I even ran into a fellow camper from the old days, Eli Tsakiris.

I think of BSC as a real home, and now that time has passed, I am able to appreciate the great opportunity and the fun we had back then. Not only it was a huge opportunity for me to improve my English, which I think I did, but also to make great lifelong friends while I improved considerably in both basketball and my overall fitness. Thanks to BSC, I continued playing basketball to the point that after graduating high school I became the starter shooting guard in my college´s basketball team during my freshman year. During college I also decided to pick up Muay Thai, which is pretty similar to kickboxing, and it has been really fun, I even competed and won tournaments. Now that I have graduated from college, I am currently studying for a huge law exam, similar to the BAR in the US.

I still wear all my BSC shirts every now and then, being the CIT shirt the one I like the most. I also keep with great pride my BSC banner with all the pins I earned during the years on my bed´s wall. I keep hanging out every week with Joaquin and Pablo, and Max Izotof came to visit us three years ago and we had crazy fun.

I really hope that BSC will do great in the future, and even though coronavirus is being a real pain, BSC´s 11th year will be as good as the first one.

BSC Forever,
Miguel

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I had the privilege of experiencing Bridgton Sports Camp as both a camper and a counselor. The lessons I learned as a camp counselor are ones that I have carried with me through my undergraduate career and into my future as an aspiring physician. I am currently in the midst of a gap year between my graduation from Tulane University in May of 2020, and my entrance into medical school in the fall of 2021. I am working as a medical assistant at a dermatology clinic in Massachusetts during the medical school application process. In such isolated times as these, I look back fondly on my time at Bridgton Sports Camp.

As a camp counselor, I gained valuable experience navigating conflict and compromise while ensuring that all campers of different interests enjoyed their time at camp. My campers taught me how to use different modes of communication to work with all types of personalities. The amount of responsibility given to camp counselors cannot be understated and learning how to handle such a position allowed me to become more adept at managing multiple commitments in college, such as academics and extracurriculars. As a counselor, my critical thinking was constantly tested, forcing me to find creative ways to engage a diverse group during in-between times, transitions, and changes in plans. The skills learned as a camp counselor can be translated effectively into any field imaginable as the improvement of one’s character, communication ability, and time management skills are powerful traits found within any successful individuals. In such an interpersonally focused field as medicine, my formative experience as a camp counselor has embedded a strong background in building relationships as an authority. As our world becomes increasingly virtual, summer camp remains a pure release from the noise of technology, social media, and politics. In addition to being some of the most fun months of my childhood, Bridgton Sports Camp helped me mature into a successful adult transitioning into the working world.

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