Age for Headfirst Honor Roll Camp

Too early. Summer after junior year, or, if you insist on getting an early start, then you could add summer after sophomore year. Earlier than that is wasteful IMHO.

Totally 100% agree with leftyshortstop.

That $1K could be used to go to a bunch of college camps he may be interested in attending this summer. This is a great time to give him experience in front of college coaches without as much pressure.

AMEN! Don't waste big bucks on Showcases now. Best to start listing schools of interest and finding out where those coaches will be.

Better off spending the money on some lessons with a trusted teacher and a couple college day clinics this year. And play lots of ball locally, don't waste it on a travel team.

Since you are in Florida, fall of his junior year at Jupiter would be great.

Thanks for the responses. That was my gut feeling, but I didn't know if there was any advantage to getting him in early and getting him some experience.

I agrre with all the other poster's...I would like to add one thing...after my son's freshman year I took him a local showcase that was put on by a local baseball academy. It was a show case that was attend by only IVY league schools.

I did this for a couple of reasons:

1. I wanted him to get the experience of having coaches stand behind the catcher with guns pointing at him when I knew they would really not be looking at a rising soph. He did not know that so he got to feel the "pucker" effect when it really did not matter.

2. With just the ivies I know that there would not be a lot of coaches there so it was not overwhelming to him.


I think it helped him when he did start going to showcases he knew what to expect it was at least something he had been through before.

So I would recommend if you can find an inexpensive showcase in your area it might not be a bad idea to let him get one in his system before they start to count.

Our son went to HF and to an Ivy showcase (similar to the one dad43's son attended)the summer after sophomore year and got very good results from both. The coaches came to watch pretty faithfully when he played at events in the fall of junior year, probably because they had seen him before and were interested (and he had expressed his interest in them).