The Dan Duquette Sports Academy is a sports training center located in

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, in the United States. The academy was founded by

Dan Duquette Dan Duquette (born May 26, 1958) is an American baseball executive. He is the former general manager of the Montreal Expos, Boston Red Sox, and Baltimore Orioles of Major League Baseball. He is also the founder of the Dan Duquette Sports Academy ...

, the general manager of the

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Overview

The academy provides overnight and day camp with one- and two-week sessions for boys and girls ages 8 to 18. The academy features camps for

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

softball Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

and

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

. The Sports Academy also sponsors weekend tournaments for youth baseball teams ranging in age from 9U to 19U. There are three different sized baseball fields, four basketball courts, volleyball court, horseshoe pits, a campsite on a spring fed fresh water lake for canoeing and kayaking and of hiking trails. The camp uses latest technology, including digital teaching devices, enhances the training experience. The baseball field at the Sports Academy also served as the temporary home of the Berkshire Dukes of the

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in 2004 prior to the team moving to its permanent home at

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External links

Camp Website
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