Realize peak scholastic and athletic performance through combined college level academic study and world class sports training.

The College Bound Summer Intensive is a six week study and sports immersion designed to maximize the complementary benefits of simultaneous intellectual development and athletic achievement. Featuring an exceptionally focused, individualized mentoring approach, the combined program is conducted exclusively by its two directors, university faculty member and award winning learning specialist, Hal Hirshon, and former Russian Olympic and World Champion Pentathlon Coach, Alex Primilsky.

The program objectives are at once motivational, inspirational, and professionally strategical:

To cultivate soaring confidence in academic and athletic skills through markedly and consistently improved scholastic and sports performance.

To condition a lasting belief in the surpassability of scholastic and sports performance thresholds.

To develop lifetime learning and athletic training skills as well as propensities for learning autonomy and competitive athletic excellence.

To practice and master the academic and athletic skills necessary to compete successfully in elite colleges and top N.C.A.A. programs.

Several students who have completed Hal's academic immersion tutorials have earned top 5% class standing (two ranking or graduating first in class) in both undergraduate and professional graduate schools. A substantial majority have achieved Dean's List or top 20% class rankings.

Many elite professionals who have trained in Alex’s athletic programs are well represented among the ranks of Olympic, World, and National Champions. Two of the world’s top triathletes regularly train in Alex’s Masters Swim

Program, and no less than five national and world champion pentathletes have benefitted from his training while he was head coach of Russia’s top Olympic School. A recent nationals qualifier (swimming) heads a list of junior competitors currently training in Alex’s one-to-one swim immersion.

In 1996, the two training approaches were combined to realize the synergistic benefits of concurrent, integrated training and coactive, focus skills development. Boston area high school students currently enrolled in this training have demonstrated heightened intellectual focus and analytical aptitude with comparable gains in sports technique and overall competitive performance. The 1997 College Bound Summer Intensive will offer four, highly driven scholar-athletes the opportunity to complete a university level course while mastering highly effective academic skills and sports training protocols in an innovative, one-to-one mentoring environment.

The six week College Bound Summer Intensive provides 36 hours of highly interactive, performance based, one-to-one academic skills tutorial, 48 hours of university coursework seminar instruction (limited to four students), and 36 hours of one-to-one, world-class athletic training and coaching in either cross-country running, swimming, or fencing.

After completing a one week pre-evaluation to assess drive, motivation, and aptitude, qualifying applicants attend the team orientation scheduled Monday, June 30th. Here, candidates begin to foster camaraderie with other scholar/athletes, confirm individual training schedules and logistics, and review core training strategies and objectives.

The six week program training begins Monday, July 7th. Monday through Thursday, each student will undertake five hours of daily training – two 90-minute one-to-one intensives and the two hour university course seminar. The seminar is attended by all four program candidates and is held from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.