Stanford Camp

My son received the email invite a few weeks ago and the hard copy letter in the mail Wednesday.

Do you think it's worth sending them an email to ask or is the timing of the invites pretty deliberate (i.e. they've identified their priority invites already)?

I would wait a few days, they probably send out a thousand of these invites.

My son's invite came in the mail Friday.

So son emailed Stanford guy and he replied saying it was just taking some time to send the thousands of invites out and to not worry bc camp admission isn't first-come first-serve.

Finally got application in mail! I guess we are pretty low on the list

I am a 2013 out of Illinois... Would this camp still be worth going to considering most of the schools at the camp are from the west coast? Any personal experiences?

It's actually not true that most of the schools at the camp are from the west. Lots of higher-academic eastern schools, including Ivy's and D3's are there.

Son sent in the registration and received an email from Coach Stotz confirming it had been received but that selection was random by NCAA rule and wouldn't occur until mid March.
Does anyone know if this is how it has always been done or at this point what the chances of being randomly selected are?
Thanks.

Traveler,

The random or lottery selection process is what Stanford uses. The chance of selection all depends on the number applications they receive above their maximum capacity. The application recommends that parents don't book travel arrangements in case your son is not selected.

Early application doesn't help your chance of selection directly but it may encourage the school to offer a larger camp based on demand.

Is there a camp anything comparable to Stanford's on the east coast?

I got my official acceptance e-mail today! Who am I going to be seeing there?

Congratulations 7 steps! Maybe see you there!

My son will be there too

Can anyone tell me about the futures camp? I am considering attending this camp this sumemr, however, most of the info on here seems to be about the All Star camp. All info is appreciated. Also what were some of the colleges that attended the futures camp last year and would you recommend it?

Statedynasty..If you back track to page 9..there will be some info I posted regarding the Futures camp..Hope it helps in your decision making.

Was not able to do any school visits last year but hoping to see some. Will be there 1 day early and planning to look into Northern Cal Schools ie USF, Santa Clara, Menlo. Any other suggestions? Thanks

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Originally posted by Ryanrod23:
Was not able to do any school visits last year but hoping to see some. Will be there 1 day early and planning to look into Northern Cal Schools ie USF, Santa Clara, Menlo. Any other suggestions? Thanks

Others to consider:

San Jose State, St. Mary's, UC Davis, Chico State.

Lefty...

Thank goodness you can go to Cal and check out their program also!

I was told the futures camp notices would be any day now. Has anyone received a notice?

My son got his early this morning

Nothing yet. I wonder if that means we are out.

We also recieved the confirmation email this morning.

Got my comfirmation this morning as well.

Finally got the e-mail that he did not get in. Does anyone have an idea how many apply? Is the junior/senior camp done by lottery as well?

Is it a good idea to do the CA headfirst camp prior to stanford?

Seems like many of the same coaches?


Advice please.

When my son did the Stanford Camp, we discussed doing it. At that time it was after the SC. If your son is a pitcher there may be some problems with the amount of rest required. The other issue to take into account is fatigue. I know my son did not pitch until the end of the Stanford camp and he was very tired (he is a two way) by the time he got to his pitching rotation, and was graded lower because of this.

The only other issue is the cost. We decided to pass becuase of fatigue concerns as well as the cost. (both out of pocket for the event as well as travel, hotel, away from work, etc.)

You can request pitching early in the HF, and late in the SC if you are a pitcher and can make it work this way also.

We met kids who did both FWIW.

Hi All,
Son is excited about camp starting this Thursday.
Curious as to how the games work. Are they played by regular baseball rules or are there any special rules regarding walks, HBP, etc. If any veterans could shed some light would love the insight.
Also any advice for my camper would be appreciated. He will be on his own as an overnighter.
Thanks in advance for the comments.

The games follow standard baseball rules except all batters start with a 1 ball, 1 strike count. If the batter walks, the 1st base coach goes into run and the batter stays up with a new 1 ball, 1 strike count. His "2nd AB" the pitcher is limited to fastballs only. If he walks again he then takes his base.

This helps move games along.

My single biggest piece of advice is to not make this into something so big and critically important that your sons forget to have fun, meet new people and learn something.

I believe too many look at this as a make or break camp. It is not that.

Good luck and enjoy!

Thanks for the info.
And I don't think having fun is going to be a problem.

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Originally posted by justbaseball:
My single biggest piece of advice is to not make this into something so big and critically important that your sons forget to have fun, meet new people and learn something.

I believe too many look at this as a make or break camp. It is not that.

Good luck and enjoy!

I echo justbaseball's advise. Just relax and have fun playing the game with your team. Same advise the speakers of the camp gave.

Traveler, How is camp going so far for your son? What team is he on? Good luck rest of way!

Son had a great time. He played on the Michigan team, really liked the coach. Found the camp very inspirational in the sense that now he knows what he's working toward and how hard he needs to work. In my opinion that alone is worth the price of admission.

Traveler,

Small World...We were on the same team. My son was #11. What number is your son? We could have hanged out more. Our coach was very positive and the boys responded well to him. Son really had a good time.

He liked the part that he could speak to college coaches who has shown interest. He said it's better to talk to them personally than calling them since you can actually see how they respond. I didn't realize that until he told me.



Enjoy rest of Summer!
RR23

Does anyone know roughly how long it takes to get evaluations back from Stanford all star camp?

My son also had a great experience. The meet and greet night was good. My son was on team #6 Arkansas with coach Downing.

Jkruse,

It would take 6-8 weeks. 3 seperate reports.

1)Overall evaluation by your coach.
2)Position specific evaluation ie pithers,IF,OF,Catchers
3) Hitting evaluation.

I think our temas played that last game against each other @ MEnlo College.

Best of Luck in your recruitnig trail.

My son was a pitcher.
1st game was at Canada College where he pitched 4 innings w/ 9 KO's, no runs, allowed 1 hit.
2nd game was at Sunken Diamond but he helped coaches chart pitches.
3rd game was asked to switch teams to team Army and played at Gunn HS. He pitched 2innings there. I don't recall his stats there though...

Can't wait to get evaluations!

Ryanrod,

My sons catcher from HS was also on team #6 so you may have seen him. Last name was TATUM.

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Originally posted by BOF:
When my son did the Stanford Camp, we discussed doing it. At that time it was after the SC. If your son is a pitcher there may be some problems with the amount of rest required. The other issue to take into account is fatigue. I know my son did not pitch until the end of the Stanford camp and he was very tired (he is a two way) by the time he got to his pitching rotation, and was graded lower because of this.

The only other issue is the cost. We decided to pass becuase of fatigue concerns as well as the cost. (both out of pocket for the event as well as travel, hotel, away from work, etc.)

You can request pitching early in the HF, and late in the SC if you are a pitcher and can make it work this way also.

We met kids who did both FWIW.

Just wanted to follow up on this post for anyone considering doing this next year...son did both and it was a great experience. Each camp had its own special "WOW" moments; Headfirst for the unbelievable access to coaches from phenomenal schools and Stanford for the combo of meeting coaches and the very high level of baseball. Son also enjoyed meeting ballplayers from all over the country at each camp (I think this was his favorite part). He was not too tired (he is 2-way too) bc he pitched early at Headfirst and late at Stanford. His only complaint was that the dorm they stayed in was a "billion miles away" and his legs got tired from all the walking I would recommend this combo to ANY high academic kid who wants to connect with college baseball coaches...it (+ WWBA 17U afterwards) has made a HUGE difference in how much attention he is getting now. Thanks to all the websters who encouraged us to sign up for these camps!