I wanted to give my thoughts on HeadFirst. We traveled to Long Island last week from Southern California. As many have commented on these boards before, the camp was outstanding. My son kept commenting that it was fast-paced, the between game "seminars" were great, etc. Of the 250 or so players, I believe 10 were from CA. Some of my impressions:
There were a lot of kids who could really swing the bat.
There were a lot of "athletes", big kids with speed.
The coaches were extremely engaged, very active and pro-active in the recruiting process. They were there to find and engage players, hunting players down to talk after seeing them perform.
The baseball Heaven facility is very nice.
For a pitcher (my son attended as a pitcher only) the event afforded tremendous exposure, and the layout of the diamonds and advanced posting of game schedules/pitching rotations seemed to make it extremely easy for a large amount of coaches to rotate among fields and see every pitcher they wanted to.
I cannot stress how highly I would recommend a HeadFirst event for any solid HS player who meets their niche target market: Solidly-skilled players (do not need to be a superstar), who are high achieving academically, who are targeting mainly D3 opportunities.
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