Dan Duquette Sports Academy
The Dan Duquette Sports Academy is a sports training center overnight and day camp with one- and two-week sessions for boys and girls ages 8 to 18. The academy features camps for baseball, softball, basketball, soccer and football. 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 2-acre (8,100 m2) campsite on a spring fed fresh water lake for canoeing and kayaking and 80 acres (320,000 m2) of hiking trails. The camp uses latest technology, including digital teaching devices, enhances the training experience.
The academy was founded by Baltimore Orioles General Manager Dan Duquette, and is based in Hinsdale, Massachusetts. The baseball field at the Sports Academy also served as the temporary home of the Berkshire Dukes of the New England Collegiate Baseball League in 2004 prior to the team moving to its permanent home at Pittsfield, Massachusetts' Wahconah Park.
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Coordinates: 42°25′43.89″N 73°07′36.33″W / 42.4288583°N 73.1267583°W