Slippery Rock University Nike Field Hockey Camp Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania
Nike Field Hockey Camps is proud to offer a great location in Pennsylvania, Slippery Rock University.
This camp is designed to help players, ages 10-18, develop athletically. Mastering fundamental skills, experiencing lots of game competition, making new friends, and falling in love with field hockey.
Upon arrival at camp, all campers are evaluated by the Director and Staff and placed into the program that best suits them for an experience that's effective and fun.
Highlights Include
- Minimum of six hours of instruction daily
- Instruction from prominent college and high school coaches as well as former or current collegiate athletes
- Partner Camp and sanctioned to make referrals to the US Field Hockey Futures program
- 10:1 Camper to Staff ratio
- Special goalkeeping instruction
- Personal evaluations from your coach
- Reversible jersey, STX water bottle and STX ball
- STX sticks are awarded as prizes
Co-Director
Julie Swiney
Julie Swiney will begin her second season as the Head Field Hockey Coach at Slippery Rock University in 2011. Zoolkoski Swiney led the field hockey team to success that the program had not seen in more than a decade in her first season at Slippery Rock.
Swiney inherited a Rock program that won seven games in four seasons under former head coach Stacey Hart. In her first season with The Rock in 2010, Zoolkoski Swiney led Slippery Rock to a 6-14 season. The six wins were the most for Slippery Rock since 1998.
Under Swiney’s guidance, the Green and White defeated three teams that were ranked in the NFHCA Top-10 and scored 33 goals, the sixth highest total in the program’s history. Seven of SRU’s losses were just one-goal defeats.
Read Full BioIn addition to coaching two All-Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference-Western Division selections in 2010 (Gabrielle Malishchak and Erin Moran), Swiney also oversaw a team that led all of Division II with a collective 3.55 grade point average.
Swiney joined The Rock staff after serving four seasons as American International College’s first field hockey coach. She led the Yellow Jackets to two wins in each of their first two seasons before increasing the win total to five games in 2008 and six games in 2009. Included in the 2008 win total was a 3-2 victory over No. 6 St. Michaels, the Yellow Jackets’ first-ever win over a nationally ranked opponent.
She also served as Assistant Compliance Coordinator at American International and was a member of the NCAA Division II North Region advisory committee from 2008-10, the National Field Hockey Coaches Association’s All-American Committee and the North/South All Star Committee.
Prior to being named in May 2006 as head coach at AIC, Swiney served one season as an assistant coach under former Rock student-athlete and head coach Jenny Dumas at Washington & Jefferson College and two seasons as an assistant at Amherst College.
Swiney was also the director of the Revolution Field Hockey Camp in Pomfret, Conn., from 2008-10; head coach of U-14 Action Sports in Greenfield, Mass., from 2006-09 and head coach for the USA Field Hockey Futures Program, Great Lakes Region, in the spring of 2005. She has worked at numerous field hockey summer camps, including camps at Amherst, Stanford and William and Mary.
A 2003 graduate of The College of William and Mary, Swiney was a three-year starter in field hockey for the Tribe. She led the Tribe to a Top-20 national ranking in each of her three seasons and a pair of appearances in the NCAA Division I Tournament. As a senior, Zoolkoski Swiney was named to the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) All-Tournament Team and received the CAA Commissioners' Academic Award in 2002.
Swiney earned her B.S.B.A. in marketing from William & Mary in 2003 and her master's in education at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2005.
Co-Director
Maribeth Brozena
Maribeth Brozena joined the Slippery Rock field hockey staff in July of 2011 as an assistant coach.
Brozena comes to Slippery Rock after serving as head coach of the Wyoming Area High School field hockey team for the past two seasons. Brozena compiled an overall record of 18-15-1 while at WAHS. Her 18 victories were the most wins in a two-year span in school history. The Warriors earned berths into the Wyoming Valley Conference playoffs in both seasons under Brozena.
Along with her experience coaching at the high school level, Brozena has also been an assistant coach with the Pennsylvania section of the United States Field Hockey Association’s Futures program (2005-10) and the KaPow Field Hockey Klub (2009-10).
Read Full BioPrior to earning a bachelor’s degree in exercise science from Bloomsburg University, Brozena completed an internship as a member of the University of North Carolina’s strength and conditioning staff during the fall semester of 2007.
As a player, Brozena starred at Bloomsburg from 2003-06. In addition to earning All-Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference honors three times, Brozena was also a two-time National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFCA) first team All-America selection, earning the honor in both her junior and senior seasons.
Brozena was a three-year starter for the Huskies and a member of three national championship teams. She started 70 of 78 games played and totaled 49 points on 16 goals and 17 assists. Off the field, she was a two-time Bloomsburg University Scholar-Athlete.
After completing her undergraduate degree in 2007, Brozena went on to earn a master’s degree in elementary education from Bloomsburg in 2009.
Brozena holds a USA Level I field hockey coaching accreditation and is a member of the NFCA, the Pennsylvania State Field Hockey Coaches Association and the United States Field Hockey Association.
*Please note, this information is subject to change.
SESSION INFORMATION
Check-in: At Watson Hall on Sunday, July 29 between 12:00-1:00pm
No Lunch will be served on the first day. Campers should come ready to play
Check-out: Graduation is at 11:30am on Wednsday, August 1 at N. Kerr Thompson Stadium
Final games will take place 9:30-11:30am. Parents are invited to attend!
Check-out immediately follows
INSTRUCTION
Ratio: 1:10
Players Grouped by: skill, age, years of experience
Evaluation: Written by coaching staff
Equipment Needed: hockey stick, water bottle, mouth guard, shin guards, court and turf shoes and goalies must bring full goalie protective equipment
Facility: Campers train on grass and turf fields. If it rains, there are indoor courts available
HOUSING
Campers Per Room: 2
Roommates: guaranteed if requested 14 days prior to camp
Bathrooms: On each Floor
Linens: Not provided. Please bring own linens or sleeping bag, pillow, pillowcase and a towel
Air Conditioning: YES
Key Deposit: None
Spending Money: $40
Medical Facility: 2 athletic trainers are on-site and a Hospital nearby
Sample Daily Schedule
- 7:00 Breakfast
- 8:45 Stretching, warm-up
- 9:00 Training session- Skills/small game tactics
- 11:30 Rest/individual help
- 12:30 Lunch
- 1:45 Warm-up
- 2:00 Training session- Skills session
- 4:30 Rest
- 5:00 Dinner
- 6:00 Training session- Scrimmages
- 8:30 Evening activities
- 10:30 Lights out
Why You’ll Love NIKE Field Hockey Camps
America’s best coaches!
NIKE Field Hockey Camps work with the most respected and accomplished group of instructors and coaches in the country. Our NIKE Camp Directors are talented athletes themselves; they share your passion for field hockey and have made a career of sharing their knowledge and experience with hundreds of young athletes. They, and their carefully chosen staffs, never lose sight of the fact that great players are created one at a time. At NIKE Field Hockey Camps, expect personal, individualized instruction – and with it - RESULTS!
Make new friends!
Who says getting better can’t be fun too? At NIKE Field Hockey Camps, you’ll meet other young athletes who share your love of this sport. On or off the field, you’ll share an experience you will remember forever.
Get better!
A NIKE Field Hockey Camp immerses you in the sport, giving you the kind of focused, intensive training essential to improvement. Over the course of each camp, your self-confidence will grow along with your skills.
Round-the-clock supervision
Campers are supervised 24 hours a day. Staff members reside in campers’ quarters and participate in all evening activities. Drugs, alcohol and smoking are strictly forbidden and constitute, along with general misconduct, grounds for immediate dismissal from camp without refund.
Protective Equipment
Mouthguards and shinguards are required for all players. Goalkeepers must supply their own helmets, leg guards, kickers, chest protectors and gloves.
Teams Welcome!
Get better together this summer! Teams are welcome and encouraged at all locations. Camp is a great way for teams to improve their skills individually as well as enhance their overall team unity. Register together as a team to ensure group placement on and off the field. Please call for details!
Read camper reviewsExcited to Return Again
“The Nike field hockey camp at Slippery Rock University helped my daughter strive to be a stronger player and to renew her love of the game. She left with an overwhelming confidence and an excitement to return next year! Thank you!”
Parent of a Slippery Rock University Camper
One on One Assistance
“My daughter was very happy that she received one on one assistance since she is a beginner. She felt the coaches and staff were very attentive and helpful. This was also her first camp trip ever so the positive experience made me very happy.”