Camp Cobbossee is honored to announce that our very own Head of Basketball and Czar of Traditions, Mike “Griff” Griffin has been named the Coach of the Year for the Liberty League.  Griff is the men’s basketball head coach for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute(RPI).  RPI Basketball plays in the Division III Liberty League.  This year, Griff’s team was picked to finish 6th in the league, but with a great team effort and coaching, they finished in first place.

Griff lead the RPI Engineers to a 17-7 record which included losses to Division III Powerhouses Williams College and Middlebury.  You can read more about Griff’s recent honor by clicking on the link below:

http://www.rpiathletics.com/news/2011/2/24/MBB_0224115145.aspx

Please join us in giving Griff and his RPI Engineers a big Cobbossee congratulations!  We are proud to have Griff as part of the Cobbossee family.

By now you should have received the Fall Newsletter.  We have received a ton of emails with suggestions for the name of the new bunk.  To help collect the suggestions, we have included a form below where you can send them to us.  We will narrow down the list of selections before we send it out to our Cobbossee family to vote on the name!

CONSTRUCTION UPDATE: The tennis courts and basketball court are almost finished.  Keep checking back for pictures, video and more.

Let us know your ideas for the name of the NEW BUNK:

The Camp Cobbossee crew recently returned from the American Camp Association’s Tri-State Camp Conference. This conference is a 4-day event held at the Atlantic City Conference Center. Over 3000 attendees from camps coast to coast and around the world attend the event in addition to exhibitors from many different industries.

The conference included over 100 sessions specific to camp, children, staff and parents. As attendees, we had the opportunity to hear from many speakers and seasoned veterans in the camp industry. In addition, we also enjoyed the keynote speakers, Shawn Anchor and Henry Winkler (aka the Fonz or for the younger generations, the coach from Waterboy).

The conference was very educational and productive. We brought back many new ideas and suggestions on how to continue to make camp even better.

While at Tri-State, we also had the chance to go to the Annual SCOPE dinner. SCOPE, Summer Camp Opportunities Provides an Edge, is a foundation that helps underprivileged children go to camp. Camp Cobbossee is a proud supporter of SCOPE. Keep an eye out in our next newsletter as we will be talking more about how Camp Cobbossee and our camp community can help give back SCOPE and many other charities.