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[quote=Anonymous]Thinking of signing up my 3rd grader this year, but the description gives me pause:

1) Coaches are not athletes and are not teachers... that may prove a challenge with an athletic 8-year old with a strike for clowning around. Can they teach her the art of running properly? Stretching? Warming up? Can they manage her straight-out-of-the-bed behavior?
2) There is a lot of talking in the session, and I worry that my attention-challenged girl will get tired really fast of the being talked to before school even starts (am program in our school)
3) Could not find any curicullum / list of actual topics. That again may backfire.

Could someone enlighten me?

What I was hoping to find was an athletic program with great guidance on exercising right, on planning ahead, on setting goals and meeting them. Toss in a few girl-affirming cheers, and an attitude adjustment for heading into school. My worry is that the energy-burning + goal setting/planning side are diluted with a lot of talk on topics my 8-year old will find boring, or that I would find inappropriate for the age. Not looking for yet another situation in which a girl has to sit and listen before heading into school for a sit and listen day.

My kid is athletic and a bit of a clown -- and she *hates* sitting around and listening. This would be her first athletic / running experience. She swims competitively, and works better in fast-moving programs rather than on the "gentler" kind.

Is this a good match?[/quote]

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