Athletes Keep Campus Busy During Summer

July 1 2007

Classes for the 2006-07 school year concluded June 7, but Portland Lutheran School doesn’t shut its doors for summer. Instead, young athletes keep the campus invigorated well into August, followed by orientation sessions for international, elementary and high school students.

Ascension Lutheran Church hosted a free soccer clinic at Portland Lutheran June 25-29 for kids in the local community. During the same week, the Eastside Basketball Academy held its four-day camp at PLS for 12- to16-year-old boys and girls. The academy’s second session will take place July 9-12, also at PLS, for 7- to 11-year-old boys and girls.

Rip City Hoop Camp will bring boys and girls from 7 to 16 to Portland Lutheran July 30-Aug. 3 for the camp’s 17th season. Directed by Brad Barbarick, basketball coach for Concordia University and former elementary and middle school physical education teacher, the camp will feature at least one full court game per day.

Portland Lutheran will resume its fall high school sports practices in August with pre-season warm-ups, according to Chad Rush, athletic director and assistant high school principal. Conditioning camps get underway Aug. 13 for soccer, volleyball and girls’ and boys’ cross country. “Daily doubles” officially begin Aug. 20 for all fall sports.

Also in August, elementary and middle school teachers will visit student homes during the three weeks before school starts. The teachers schedule appointments to get acquainted with each child and family enrolled in their classes for fall.

About 25 students from Asia, Europe and Latin America will arrive at Portland Lutheran Aug. 22 for a three-day orientation prior to fall term.

Summer vacation will see its final hours Aug. 27 when high school orientation brings students back to campus for orientation, including locker assignment. Elementary and middle school students and their parents will gather at the school that same evening to meet their classmates and receive their orientation, including classroom assignments, desks and books. School, from early childhood through high school, will resume Aug. 29 for the 2007-08 school year.