Mountaineer High Altitude Training camps offer the most unique training experience in the country.
2022 Swim Camp Dates:
- June 17-21
- June 24-28
Western Colorado University is located in Gunnison, Colorado at an elevation of 7,723 feet in the Rocky Mountains. Facilities include the highest collegiate pool in the country, a state-of-the-art weight room, and private locker rooms.
The university is situated in a high alpine valley which makes it ideal for high altitude training. Each athlete will receive a High Altitude Training T-shirt and cap. Additionally, meals will be provided & athletes will be lodged in the college dorm rooms. All attendees will get to meet and work with collegiate athletes.
Camp Activities:
- Challenging in-water training
- Four hours a day with head coach Vickie Fellows, WCU coaching staff, and current collegiate swimmers
- Underwater filming and technique analysis
- Low camper to staff ratio
- Day hikes in the beautiful mountains surrounding the Gunnison Valley
- Dryland and weight room sessions
- Guest Speakers
- White water rafting trip (additional fee of $49 paid to the rafting company)
Camps will focus on teaching, refining, and reinforcing elite swimming techniques as well as aerobic-based training at high elevation. Swimmers will walk away with a deeper understanding of their strokes as well as their starts, turns, and finishes. Camps are open to swimmers ages 11-18 who want to take their performance to the next level.
Camp Cost:
- Day camper: $600
- Overnight camper: $675
Head coach, Vickie Fellows
Photo Courtesy: Western Colorado
Coach Fellows begins her first season as the Western Colorado head women’s swimming and diving coach in 2021-22.
Fellows comes to Gunnison after living in Albuquerque, New Mexico where she owned, managed and coached the Vipers of Albuquerque Swim Team since 2009. She coaches over 150 athletes in a complex range of strokes and abilities. Ninety-eight percent of her graduates went on and swam at the collegiate level spanning every division all across the country.
On top of owning, managing and coaching the Vipers of Albuquerque Swim Team, she was also the head coach of the Cibola High School swim team form 2018-21. Vickie also owns multiple businesses in Albuquerque and Taos Ski Valley.
She is a ASCA Certified Level 3 USA Swim Coach who is dedicated to her athletes, hardworking, motivating,
eager to be challenged, and committed to the success of her swimmers.
Camp Contact Information:
1 Western Way
Gunnison, CO 81231
Camp Phone: 970-943-2310
Camp Email: vfellows@western.edu
Camp Website: www.gomountaineers.com/sports/