Sports + Athletics | Senior Program
During extracurricular periods at the Senior Program, you can make athletics a part of your summer experience. Your athletic participation could consist of working out in the gym, playing pick-up games on the quad, getting pointers from a Yale coach in a sports clinic, or trying your hand at a sport for the first time. One thing you’ll find at the Senior Program is a love of learning with the body as well as the mind, and through athletic participation you can learn valuable teamwork and leadership skills and have a great time doing it. Whether you are a varsity athlete or a recreational player, Explo offers many options to meet your needs.
Among the exciting athletic possibilities at the Senior Program are sports clinics. Taught in Yale's premier athletic facilities, all sports clinics are coed and designed to accommodate students of varying ability levels. In addition to giving you tips and pointers about your technique, coaches can also give you advice about integrating varsity sports into your college experience.
Our crew sports clinic will introduce you to rowing in Yale’s championship-quality training tanks. Join us and learn how to simultaneously keep your oar in the oarlock, move up and down your slides, and pull together as a team to keep your boat moving through the water. You will spend the last two days of this clinic at Yale’s boathouse, putting your practice to work on a rowing barge in the Housatonic River.
The crew sports clinic meets for seven days as a special alternative mini-course, and takes the place of a regular afternoon mini-course.
Sport Clinic Cost: $175
1st Session: July 10 or 11; 2nd Session: July 31 or August 1
This clinic will help you work on every facet of your golf game by emphasizing putting, driving, pitching, and full range swings. Coach Pulaski, named the 2003 Teacher of the Year by the Connecticut PGA, and his staff will give one-on-one instruction. After a day at the putting and driving ranges, you’ll try your skills out on one of the difficult holes at the Yale Golf Course. The weekend golf sports clinic is a one-day commitment and takes the place of a regular weekend trip.
Sport Clinic Cost: $60
1st Session: July 11 - 12
2nd Session: July 31 - August 1
Come experience this two-day intensive sailing clinic for beginning sailors. Held at Yale’s recently renovated sailing center, this clinic will provide eight hours of training with two Yale Sailing Instructors who will lead you through a number of sail and rigging demonstrations as well as thorough on-the-water training. Learn basic maneuvering, capsize and rescue, and landing techniques while you brave the waters of Long Island Sound. After just two days, you will be ready to charter your own (small) craft and sail off into the wild blue yonder. The weekend sailing sports clinic is a two-day commitment and takes the place of two regular weekend trips.
Sport Clinic Cost: $220
The Cathedral of Sweat
The family of Payne Whitney, Yale class of 1898, wanted to fund a chapel in his memory. Yale already had two on-campus chapels, so the University persuaded the family to instead fund an athletic complex. Now nicknamed "The Cathedral of Sweat," the recently renovated Payne Whitney Gymnasium is the largest indoor athletic facility in the world. It features 4 air-conditioned basketball and volleyball courts, 2 indoor swimming pools, an indoor jogging track, 15 squash courts (including the only four-glass-walled squash courts in North America), badminton courts, martial arts and dance studios, and a 20,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art fitness center with free weights, weight machines, and cardio workout machines.
