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Congratulations to the Canes players and their families on their commitments!  A great accomplishment for sure.  The Canes program is highly respected and all the players moving on to the next level is quite a testament to the strength of the EvoCanes program too.

 

IMG baseball has a small but very strong group of kids coming in to play their final year or two years of high school (or do a PG year) who are initially verbally, then officially, committed to play at top D1 programs.  Schools like Stanford, Florida, Georgia Tech, Arkansas, Wake Forest, and many more have been represented in recent years. 

 

More typical are the kids in baseball, and all the other sports (e.g., golf, tennis, etc.), who are not committed anywhere but they (or maybe the parents) have a love of the game and a desire to play at the next level.  These kids will not get scholarships or discounts to go to IMG and will pay the full cost.  That cost is in excess of $75K per year for most full time, boarding, high school athletes.  Many of the top verbally committed D1 or projected as draftable players will receive some level of scholarship to attend IMG.

 

In one of my son's years, there were 3 drafted players out of 40 senior and PG year students.  Those 3, plus my son and one other player, went on to play D1 baseball.  The other 35 did not.  Most of those 35 did not play college baseball.

 

Boarding High School tuition, room, and board for the year is $68,500 at IMG.  The majority of students are not local, so they board.  Some families move to the Bradenton area with their student and rent or buy a residence.  Non-boarding annual fee is $54,300 for high school.

 

Each sport requires a "competition and training gear fee".  That fee varies by sports and ranges from $3,750 to $4,250.  So a student, with no additional a la carte purchases pays the annual fee + the sport fee ($68,500 + ~$4,000 = $72,500).

 

A student/family can upgrade above the basic accommodations and the basic meal plans.  Many, but not all, do this.  As as example, a meal plan upgrade for a Boarding student is an additional $4,350.

 

Then there are additional services that are sold a la carte.  For example:  SAT/ACT prep, speed training, physical therapy, sport specific individual instruction, tutoring, etc.  I don't have those $ unfortunately, but when we were there they were in the low four figures each...e.g., $2,500 for SAT prep.

 

Those who are not local will pay travel costs to/from Bradenton for their student and then for the parents or other family members when visiting.

 

 

 

 

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