Dan Duquette Sports Academy

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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The Dan Duquette Sports Academy is a sports training center overnight and day camp with one- and two-week sessions for boys and girls ages 8 to 18. The academy features camps for baseball, softball, basketball, soccer and football. The Sports Academy also sponsors weekend tournaments for youth baseball teams ranging in age from 19U to 10U. New in 2010 is a Lo Ropes course available daily to groups which includes leadership training seminars. Coaches at the camp have high school, college and professional coaching experience.

There are three different sized baseball fields, four basketball courts, volleyball court, horseshoe pits, a 2-acre (8,100 m2) campsite on a spring fed fresh water lake for canoeing and kayaking and 80 acres (320,000 m2) of hiking trails. The camp uses latest technology, including digital teaching devices, enhances the training experience.

The academy was founded by Baltimore Orioles General Manager Dan Duquette, and is based in Hinsdale, Massachusetts. The baseball field at the Sports Academy also served as the temporary home of the Berkshire Dukes of the New England Collegiate Baseball League in 2004 prior to the team moving to its permanent home at Pittsfield, Massachusetts' Wahconah Park.

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