When David Hansburg left his job as director of football operations at Colorado in 2006, he planned to move back to his roots on the East Coast and provide the same summer camp experience he grew up on at Lake Winnipesaukee in New York to the kids of today.

The plan was modified along the way and Hansburg is bringing his roots west instead of moving east.

With the help of current and former CU student-athletes, Hansburg and his wife, Holly, started Rocky Mountain Day Camp. It is a five-day-a-week summer camp for girls and boys ages 5-12, featuring a wide-range of activities to pry kids up off the sofa and out into the warm Colorado sunshine throughout the summer.

Thousands of Boulder County parents will be searching for activities to keep their children busy this summer as the school year winds down over the coming weeks. This camp offers parents, who can get bogged down in myriad choices at this time of year, one-stop shopping for all their kids regardless of age, gender or interests.

Hansburg attended similar camps throughout his childhood and when his son, Paxton, was old enough, he began searching for similar options in Boulder County and around Colorado. The Hansburgs, both of whom have master's degrees in education, found most of their choices were limited or focused on one sport or activity.

Camp done the Hansburg way offers everything from arts and crafts to archery, baseball and water slides. It runs all day and includes after-care for parents who work a traditional 9-to-5 schedule and can't pick up their children at 3:30 in the afternoon.

A series of two and three-week sessions are available from June 2 to Aug. 1 at Eldorado K-8 in Superior.

"It's really a traditional all-around camp," Hansburg said. "It's so unique because you can't really do that anywhere here. They're all over the place on the East Coast. The camps here are very much specialized, like nature camp or football camp.

"We're like that sleep-away camp that is really a day camp."

Hansburg said the camp has attracted a wide-range of kids from all backgrounds from around Boulder County. Eight different towns and 24 different schools are represented and the Hansburgs have donated two scholarships to a handful of elementary schools and local charities to be given to children whose parents are not able to afford the cost of the camp.

"What I like about that is you really make camp friends," Hansburg said. "It's not like it's all kids from Superior."

Hansburg grew up playing various sports and always loved football. He played collegiately at Amherst College and chose to stick with the sport as a coach and administrator after graduating. He spent 13 years in college football and helped organize and operate camps every summer at Colorado and Northwestern.

"I haven't really had a summer in my whole life where I wasn't involved in some kind of camp," he said.

Current CU student-athletes such as tight end Patrick Devenny will spend their summers working as camp counselors and kids are likely to receive instruction in certain activities from periodic special guests to the camp.

Former quarterback Joel Klatt, who holds most major CU passing records, plans to teach basic football skills at the camp. Klatt, who spent the summers of his childhood immersed in youth baseball, said it allows him to give back to a community that gave him so much.

"It's a great concept," Klatt said. "It allows kids to get outside and move around and actually be active rather than just sitting around and playing video games all summer."

Hansburg and Klatt are also working together on the first year of the Joel Klatt Football School, a camp for children that will be offered during winter break in the week between Christmas and New Year's Day.

If all goes according to plan, it will be held inside the multi-purpose practice bubble at CU and feature area high school coaches and former CU football players giving instruction to campers during a time of year when it is difficult for parents to get their kids out of the house and active.

"I've always wanted to do something like that," Klatt said. "I think it would be so much fun to have kids out there and give them some good skills that will carry with them through youth football until they get into high school."

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