Eurotech® Soccer Academy is excited to enter it’s 1st year of operating soccer camps in the state of Maryland! The Eurotech® mid-atlantic camp tradition started in 1999 at several locations in Virginia and North Carolina and the programs have now expanded to nationwide locations spanning from Maryland to California. This 116-acre incredibly well-groomed campus is conveniently located in Owings Mills, centrally located in Baltimore and easily accessed from all major metro area interstates. Our local Regional Director is Daryl Ferguson, a former Barbados National Team member and current professional player with Real Maryland FC of the USL and we are very excited to have Daryl join the Eurotech® Team! Garrison Forest School is a safe, secure campus known for fantastic summer camp programs and offers Eurotech® campers incredible athletic facilities featuring both modern turf and natural grass fields. Both Eurotech® and GFS are known for their great programs and are excited to be hosted by the school this summer.
Athletic Facilities
Garrison Forest School features incredible athletic facilities with acres of soccer fields (2 manicured natural grass and 2 modern turf fields!) as well as a full size indoor air-conditioned fieldhouse (The Elizabeth E. Searle Athletic Center) featuring three full-size basketball courts, training room, elevated two-lane running track, state of the art fitness center and locker rooms to be used in case of inclement weather (pending availability). Campers are encouraged to bring indoor training soccer shoes in case of inclement weather and for possible indoor SAQ training sessions. The soccer fields are a short walk to everything on campus.
Dormitories/Rooming
Garrison Forest School offers three main dormitory buildings where campers are housed. Meadowwood Hall, Shriver Hall and Senior House are separate dorms and within a very short walking distance to the school dining center. connected and the Dining Center is on the first floor of the same building! The non-air-conditioned dorms are a very short walk to the fields and Eurotech® campers are housed in double rooms and in some cases, pending total enrollment, triple rooms. Each floor has a shower room and separate bathroom and some rooms have en-suite bathrooms. Common areas and lounges are featured in each dorm with TV’s and some have kitchenettes. Each dorm houses a modern laundry room that is convenient to campers, guests and staff. A very short walk separates the dorms from a camp favorite game room, snack bar and TV lounges. Roommate requests are typically honored and attending teams and groups of players will always be roomed in adjacent rooms on the same floor whenever possible.
Campus Dining
The modern and air-conditioned GFS Dining Hall is a favorite gathering place for Eurotech® campers and staff and is where campers will eat all their meals during their stay. The Dining Center features buffet style meals with several entrees daily, full salad/fruit bar, dessert bar, drink bars and a good variety of health conscious as well as camper friendly foods like pizza, burgers and more throughout the week. There are also drink vending machines in the dormitories and throughout campus. Eurotech® will offer the optional nightly Pizza Party for those residential campers who have pre-ordered the package for $35 per person during registration.
Camp Enrollment
Enrollment at the Maryland camp session will be limited to the first 100 campers in 2011. Teams and individual players from all over Northern Virginia and Maryland will be invited to attend in 2011. A majority of camp attendees will travel from Owings Mills, Cockeysville, Reisterstown, Garrison, Randallstown, Millford Mill, Pikesville, Lutherville-Timonium, Woodlawn and many more local communities in the metro Baltimore region. Enrollment will be on a first come, first serve basis and be set-up to guarantee the correct ratio of goalkeepers to field players.
Campus Security
24-hour campus security is also featured and experienced Eurotech® Coaching Staff, Medical Staff, and Counselors live in the dorms and monitor camper activity daily. The school also has a nurse on call and the hospital is a short drive away from campus.
About Garrison Forest School
Garrison Forest School (GFS) is a college preparatory school, in Owings Mills, Maryland, near Baltimore, with a nationally distinctive educational model. The school offers a day school for girls, pre-first through grade 12, as well as a coed program from ages two through kindergarten. The regional, national, and international residential program is for girls in grades 8–12. For fall 2009, total enrollment is 683 students across three divisions: the Lower Division (preschool and elementary grades), Middle School, and Upper School. The school averages about 60 residential students per year.
Garrison Forest School was founded in 1910 by Mary Moncrieffe Livingston. Montcrieffe adopted the motto Esse Quam Videri—To Be Rather Than To Seem for her then-fledgling school. Nearly 100 years later, those words encourage students to be who they are, not who they think others want them to be. G. Peter O’Neill, Jr. has been the Head of Garrison Forest School since 1994, and has been serving as a head of independent schools for 24 years. A nationally respected educational leader and advocate for girls’ education, Mr. O’Neill was recognized as one of the country’s most outstanding school heads in 2006 by the Klingenstein Center at Columbia University.
Located on 116 acres (0.47 km) outside of Baltimore, the school’s park-like campus offers collegiate-quality academic, athletic, arts, residential, and student facilities. Garrison Forest School is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools and the Association of Independent Maryland Schools.
Please visit the Garrison Forest School website at www.gfs.org to learn more about the campus and location.
