Reading's Super Sports Boasts Long History

Reading's Recreation department has run its Super Sports program for so many years that students that once attended the program now help run it. Josh Dockser, an international relations major at Tufts University, said he joined Super Sports when he moved to Reading in the second grade. During the following years, he formed some of his best childhood memories at the week-long recess sports program. Now, he works as one of the program's councilors, teaching a new crop of kids to play the same games he learned a decade ago.

Super Sports runs three week-long sessions each summer, with days running from 9:00 a.m. until Noon. Registration has closed for the year, but families can register next year through the Recreation Department. This year, registration cost $120 per child per session. While the program has moved in the past, director Mike McSweeney said it has recently been held at the Wood End Elementary School.