Meet Allan Warsaw, our Swimming Director. This will be Allan's 22nd summer at Camp Lakota making sure everyone is safe, happy and learning how to swim. Allan oversees our pool and our Red Cross staff of lifeguards. His team makes sure that everyone who comes to Camp Lakota becomes an excellent swimmer, through our scheduled swim instruction program. All of our campers are evaluated by Allan and his staff, and starting with our youngest campers, they become part of an age appropriate Red Cross swim instruction program.

Allan loves to have fun at our pools as well. He supervises our night swims under the lights, water volleyball, general swims and our swim meets. While the fun never stops, safety and instruction are always his two main goals.

Allan is a Red Cross certified WSI and has been a Physical Education Teacher and coached throughout the metropolitan area for over 30 years. Allan is currently in his 18th year of coaching the Ramapo New York High School swim team. Allan has had two Divisional Championship swim teams, has coached a NY State Public School 50 yard freestyle champion and has had one All-American swimmer in the breast stroke. Allan was Rockland County's Coach of the Year in 2002.

Allan's three children have all attended Lakota and he and his wife Brenda are looking forward to seeing everyone this summer.

Meet Oliver Grant from the United Kingdom, who will be joining our sports program as our new basketball specialist and coach. Oliver is currently the captain of his college team and at 6 foot 6 inches tall will make a towering impression at Lakota this summer. Oliver has been playing and teaching basketball for most of his life.

Oliver is planning a comprehensive training program in all the fundamentals of basketball. He has a bunch of new fun drills to bring to Lakota. His emphasis will cover both offense and defense. His offensive drills will focus on shooting, passing, ball handling and moving without the ball and defensively he will emphasize proper defensive position, team defense, and strong rebounding. Oliver is excited to coach our campers in their intercamp games and is also looking to lead our counselor team to a Sullivan County Championship.

Oliver is excited to bring his passion for basketball, experience with children and endless enthusiasm to the courts of Lakota 2011.

Meet Daniel Borch, who is joining Lakota as our new Mountain Biking specialist. Daniel is 21 years old, is from Denmark and studies at the University College in Aarhus.

Daniel also happens to be a trained firefighter and has a passion for fitness and nutrition, which he is currently studying.

He is very fun loving and always full of energy. In his spare time he loves to cook, and play all sorts of sports; from soccer to strength training and of course, biking.

In Denmark biking is a very important part of most people's lives. Many people in Denmark use their bicycles as a means of transportation. Just about every child in Denmark learns how to ride a bike, and most children take their bikes to school and use them after school for all sorts of fun including mountain biking.

Daniel can't wait to meet everyone and is looking forward to leading everyone on our mountain bike trails.