World Champion to Lead Wakeboard & Waterski Academy

We are proud to announce that 6 time World Wakeboard Champion Dean Lavelle will lead Robin Hood’s Wakeboard & Waterski Academy, August 7-August 14. With over 21 years of coaching experience, Dean has coached all over the world and now owns and runs the LTS Wakeboard/Waterski/Wakesurf School in Pompano Beach, Florida. Do not miss this once in a lifetime opportunity to receive one-on-one coaching with a world champion!

Dean’s biography: In 1990, Dean started his professional water-sports career at Sea World in Orlando, Florida. The following year he started his pro wakeboard career. He won the World Championship in 1993 and reigned as one of the world’s best into the millenium.  With his experience and knowledge of wakeboarding, he began coaching around the world and eventually started his own wakeboard and waterski school, LTS., in 2000.

Learn more.. check out his video biography!

Dean will be teaching not only wakeboarding and waterskiing, but will also offer instruction in wakesurfing– the fastest growing watersport in the world!

If you are not yet enrolled, we suggest submitting your online application as soon as possible to reserve a spot as we anticipate closing enrollment during this week very soon. If you are currently enrolled and wish to change your dates in order to work with Dean, please contact us immediately!

Happy Birthday to the following campers who celebrate their birthdays in November! (more…)

Rebecca and Stefano

We just celebrated the nuptials of former Robin Hood directors Alex Ross and Emme Roberts when we heard from another Robin Hood romance-turned-married couple this summer. And they have just relocated to the Boston area – a driving distance from camp!

Rebecca Kennedy and Stefano Lorenzini met in the summer of 2011 when she was head girls’ director and he was returning for a second season to head up the sailing department. Robin Hood, apparently, hit them both with a Cupid’s arrow, and only two years later they were married on a beach in Santa Maria, Colombia, before settling in Boulder, Colorado.

Exchanging vows in Colombia

Rebecca became a Robin Hood camper in 1995 and her gift for friendship was immediately apparent. She is one of those happy individuals who make friends with everyone – and maintains those connections over time. (One year we heard about a New York City birthday party where camp friends flew in from outside the country.) She was in her tenth season with us, rising from camper to counselor to director, when she met Stefano.

The happy couple

This beautiful pair stopped by camp this summer, looking like they could easily step right back into their roles as camp mentors. But they are now fully ensconced in careers and ambitions: Stefano, an Italian-Colombian ecologist from Bogota, is employed in the solar energy industry. Rebecca is finishing up her PhD in U.S. and Latin American History from the University of Colorado in Boulder.

We wish them the very best and expect to see much more of them in the coming summers!

At Robin Hood we talk a lot about how to encourage campers to be good citizens, appreciate their good fortunes and extend themselves to others.

Fred and Nancy Stein

Our legendary namesake tells the story of a life lived with honor. But, if we were to look closer at home, we can’t think of a better example of a couple who works to make life easier for the disadvantaged than our own Fred and Nancy Stein. (more…)