I'll go first!
2017 is an outfielder, awaiting ED decision at academic D3.
Two Headfirsts (Jupiter, Jr. year; Sacramento, summer before Sr. year)
Stanford Future Stars before Jr. year
Stanford All Star 1 camp before Sr. Year
Arizona Fall Classic, Junior and Senior year, with Academic game tryouts each year (but was not selected to Academic games)
Johns Hopkins camp before Sr. Year
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2018
stanford future stars before junior year
Headfirst (Long Island) before junior year
Next?
2018 MIF
PG Showcase/Camp: Winter of Sophomore year (should've waited on this one-really wanted the professional video done to get the process rolling)
ASU Individual Camp: Winter of Sophomore year
Showball National Camp (CA): Summer after Sophomore year
UNR Individual Camp: Summer after Sophomore year
SDSU Individual Camp: Summer after Sophomore year
Rising Prospects Nat'l Camp (CA): Fall of Jr. year
NMSU & PLNU Individual Camps (upcoming): Winter of Jr. year
AZ Fall Classic's mixed in each year
Hopefully no more mega Nat'l showcases......Hoping for invites to Sun Belt, Jupiter & Area Code, etc. this upcoming summer (need a monster HS season this spring) & maybe a few more Indy's after this HS season and we'll be done? <fingers crossed>
PBR local event just after end od freshman yr. PBR future games team Il. member summer of soph. yr. Recieved an offer day before future games. accepted @ a month later.
PG Showcase Soph year just to get in their database and see where he stood relative to the competition. First event. Ranked a 7.5, which of course I thought was low at the time. 
PG National (West Coast) 2X with travel team
USA National 16U Championships. (pick up team that placed fourth beating a ton of National teams)
Arizona Fall Classic (Jr/Sr & both Academic games)
Area Code tryouts Jr/Sr years (did not make teams)
Stanford Camp Sr year.
Scout league 2x in fall (Jr/Sr yr)
Connie Mack team both summers Jr/Sr, which also entered various tournaments in the LA area.
Did two on campus events, one at UC Davis and the other at Cal Poly. Not random as both were actively following him at the time.
Ended up playing for the #1 D3 in the country (Trinity TX...go Tigers!) Had a nice journeyman career as a two way. Won his league 3x's, 4 Regionals, one CWS, and also got a great education in the process. (Eng. degree)
What would we do different? 1) Trim back summer ball a little and do more training. (Driveline/Wolforth/Cressy stuff) 2. Explore D3 programs more aggressively. (on a good day a top D3 team can beat any team in the country, which at the time I had no idea)
Must do events: 1) Area Code 2) Academic games 3) Stanford camp 4) Scout league.... however teams saw him multiple times at multiple events so he kept moving up their draft board the more they saw him.
2018 MIF
Feb - Freshman year: PBR showcase (wish we knew about having a standout measurable, would have held off till Soph year, Exit velo - 79, IF velo - 76
August - Soph year: Duke Camp & PG Showcase (we knew it was for experience, but if we did it again I'd wait until son had at least one big measurable vs just being an excellent player with avg measurables)
Feb - Soph year: PBR showcase (Exit velo 84 & IF velo 84 put him as a top 5 prospect at the event)
July - Rising Junior summer: Stanford All Star Camp (performed well, had Baylor coach confirming D1 glove, but limited conversations and chances for coaches to see him play)
Fall Junior year: club team didn't have enough pitching, so 2018 rested, refined his skills to prepare for AZ Fall Classic and HF Jupiter. Exit velo up to 89, IF velo up to 88 now.
Oct - Junior year: AZ Fall Junior Classic All Academic tryout and game ( played well, made all academic team to play at evening game, at least 40 coaches watching, but focus was on pitching, SS son stuck at 3rd with only a pop fly)
Nov - Junior year: HF Jupiter (played very well, nice conversations with coaches he's communicated with) Unfortunate error by HF put son's 60 time at 7.8 vs his actual time; runner next to him had the 7.8. HF has since corrected and notified all coaches who attended HF Jupiter, but we felt major loss of opportunity to get noticed, it seemed he moved down the list with a few coaches because they never came around to watch, but those coaches that did see him play made very nice comments on his play and son know's he's on their "boards", where, who knows.
Future plan's: IVY camp Feb, PG Indoor Showcase Feb to get his PG grade bumped up, PG Academic Showcase in June (will be his rising senior summer), HF Sacramento in June. Hopefully he'll then have traction with a few schools.
Any suggested alternative routes?
2017 Outfielder
1 camp at Pitt during Christmas break his freshman year.
1 pro workout that the rockies put on every year in Pittsburgh- invite only- summer after freshman year
1 camp after he received offer summer before his junior year at school he ended up committing to- basically just to see the school, get to know the coaches and see if it felt right to him. he committed on the drive home, so that cut short the process.
we were fortunate that he plays on a summer team that is well known and heavily scouted in the area- and he was noticed early on by the area scouts, so his name was out there in our area.
2017 catcher (who wants to play club ball at Virginia Tech or James Madison and turned down a very good D3 option)
PG WWBA, a few local PG tournaments, 2 PBR showcases with video and metrics, 2 Dynamic combines (metrics). College camps: George Mason, Mary Washington, Christopher Newport, Catholic, Shenandoah. Junior and Senior years and summers.
High/low-lights: At PG WWBA 2015, drew the ultimate winning team first game of the event, and due to localized rain, started game after 11pm (which sucked). Incredible to see so many colleges, but after the first game, nada for coaches. SO MANY TEAMS and players that unless throwing gas or serious raking, seemed impossible to get any recognition = just a numbers game.
MWU camp was a joke, and I mean that in the worst way possible. CNU was outstanding. PBR events were well run but lacking in college coaches.
What would I do differently? Generally, less summer and fall baseball and more training. Playing great but meaningless games is fun but not recruiting!
Our 2017 did very little, comparatively, but it worked out in what I think is the best way possible for him.
Trosky Camp (local Cal event) - fall of Jr. year. Got only camp invites out of it. One was very personal, but from a D2 he wasn't much interested in.
AZ Jr Fall Classic - fall of Jr. year. Went with a very well established team, also did All Academic tryout. From that tryout mostly, I believe, he got on the radar of several high academic D3's and a couple Ivy's.
NorCal World Series - right after Jr year. Got contacted by a few D1 and several D3's, including school he committed to.
Head First Sacramento - July. Serious interest from many D3 coaches, and one Ivy.
Stanford 2 - July. Lots of camp invites, and a few D3 calls, but kind of irrelevant as he was 90% decided on where he was going before the camp.
Had he not made up his mind on a D3, there were a couple of D1 camps we were considering, and I still wish a coaching snafu hadn't cost him a trip to a PG tournament during Jr. year, but overall I would not do anything differently. Whether not not he would have done anything differently is a question for another thread.
Result: waiting for E.D. at high academic D3.
2017 MIF
November 2015: Arizona Junior Fall Classic
November 2015: Rising Prospects National Camp San Bernadino
June 2016: Prospectwire East v West 17u Los Angeles
July 2016: USD Team Camp
July 2016: UCSB Individual Camp
July 2016: Showball Showcase Los Angeles
July 2016: Under Armour Southwest Championships 17u
August 2016: Baseball Northwest Senior Championships Seattle
August 2016: Pacific Northwest Regional Games Seattle
September: Local Scout Ball games
October: Arizona Senior Fall Classic
October: PG WWBA Jupiter
D1 I ended up commiting to was at Prospectwire, Showball (would not recommend though), Under Armour Southwest Championships, and Arizona Senior Fall Classic
I would highly recommend the fall classics, east v west (only 10 teams), under armour, baseball nw if you live in the nw, and Jupiter because there is no better baseball experience.
2010 SS/P
*Trosky Camp
NorCal World Series
Arizona Fall Classic
East Cobb Wood Bat Tournament
Stanford Camp
Scout Team
Area Codes
Central Coast Section HS Baseball Championship
These were the primary events son attended other than some summer tournaments his travel team participated in. And these are pretty much those involved in the recruiting process.
*. . . .except for the Trosky Camp. It was a small local event, with a few local college HCs and recruiters, at the time and son was a Sophomore and invited. We decided to go as it was for Juniors and Seniors and son wanted to see how he might stack up at a higher level.
None
2014 MIF
SelectFest showcase
Atlantic 100 showcase
PG East Cobb tournament
PG Fort Myers tournament
PG Northeast tournament
TPX96 Ohio tournament
Super 17s tournament - Diamond Nation NJ
Cary, NC tournament - can't remember the name
Was scheduled for HeadFirst but was injured
2018 RHP
2016 LHP
2017 attended two, one day catching camps at two different universities his sophomore year. Attended a PG showcase after sophomore year. Tried out for Area Code after sophomore and Jr seasons. Did not make AC team. Offered D1 after sophomore year, committed after his Jr. season, signed last month.
Although my son's list of events is short, the AC tryouts were very well attended by schools in our region and generated 90% of his recruiting interest.
On a side note, he did attend the WWBA 17U this past October. He isn't getting drafted so improving draft stock wasn't the reason for going and he was firm on his commitment. Going to that event was sort of a bucket list item for him, just wanted to experience that circus and it definitely lived up to the hype. If your son gets the opportunity to play in the WWBA....go!
Nothing as FR/SO. No travel. No showcases. No off-season pitching or training.
JR year:
- One complete game at WWBA 17U (not in the main complex)
- 20-30 pitches at a State HS showcase
- Played 2 pickup games on a showcase travel team (one was WWBA above)
He got D1 offers based on these two events plus scouts at HS games.
Probably only pitchers can get away with the light showcase schedule.
Side note: he ended up with TJ 2 years later, even after being careful with the arm. /sad
2017 LHP did the following:
Sophomore year:
Summer between Soph. and Jr years:
Summer between Jr and Sr.
** High School team participates in CCS tourney (CIF-CCS) regularly and also attend well recruited events like the Boras Classic.
2018 C/IF
Oct 2015- Sophomore Classic
Jan 2016- Baseball Factory
Jun 2016- Area Code Tryouts
Aug 2016- Prospect Camp
Oct 2016- Jr All-Academic and Fall Classic
Nov 2016- ACBTC
Jun 2017- E vs W showcase, Area Code Tryouts
Aug 2017- Prospect Camp
Sep 2017- NYY Scout Team (AZ JUCO Fall league)
Oct 2017- Sr All-Academic and Fall Classic
