Baseball camps

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IMG Academy's baseball camps provide access to some of the world's best coaches and many advanced training methods, both of which will help you reach your full potential and continue to do so long after your time at our baseball camps has ended.

Amongst the many features offered by an IMG baseball camp are its high-quality training, world-class coaching, challenging competition and professional facilities. All of that is in addition to its climate, which is conducive to playing baseball year-round, and the impressive accolades that its alumni have achieved during and after their time here.

As a result, attending an IMG baseball camp is an easy decision for most.

While here, you will receive instruction from a quality coaching staff that has brought years of experience working in college baseball as well as at the minor and major league levels. They will help you learn more about baseball and about yourself, and you will utilize this long after you leave here.

Our elite baseball camps not only focus on helping you improve your physical game but also your mental game – helping you become a more polished player. Also note that the mental aspects not only include things such as knowing what decisions to make during plays but also how to emotionally handle challenging situations.

Our unique training is essential to reaching your potential as a baseball player and includes leadership training, vision training and baseball nutrition. Our world-class facilities include multiple game fields, practice mounds, batting cages and HitTrax simulators. Also available for use is our EON augmented reality simulator.

One of the learning experiences that you will have at a baseball camp hosted by IMG is experiencing top-level competition as many of your fellow campers are among the best in the country and are also pushing themselves.

A major benefit of IMG's location is that we offer players attending our baseball camps weather conditions that provide for top-quality offseason amps for baseball. Even in the middle of winter, the average high temperature at an IMG baseball camp is 72 degrees.

In fact, that is a significant reason why our baseball camps are popular throughout the year and why many of our campers fly here from long distances.

IMG’s summer baseball camps are the biggest and most popular while spring camps are the second most popular time as numerous students want to improve their game then as well. Overall, our IMG youth baseball camps and holiday camps are amongst the best in the country.

One of the top indicators of IMG Academy's quality is its high school baseball team claiming the USA Today Super High School national baseball championship in 2019. Six members of that squad were drafted, and more than 20 students and alumni in total have been drafted since that season. That includes Elijah Green, who was selected fifth overall in the 2022 draft, by the Washington Nationals. We also just had four more players drafted and one was fifth overall pick.

Baseball camp with top resources

Once at a baseball camp here, you will get to take advantage of our stunning facilities. Included are 16 batting cages, 16 practice mounds, a physical gym, a mind gym to ensure that your mental game is enhanced as well, six full baseball fields and three half fields.

Some other important aspects of becoming a top baseball player that are taught at an IMG baseball camp include leadership training, nutritional education and injury prevention while access to NCSA college recruiting resources is included as well.

Also, our baseball camps feature the latest in technology and testing, such as batting cages that incorporate tech tracking followed by assessment and virtual reality simulation that can provide our coaches and you with a significant amount of essential information.

Another reason why so many players are interested in participating in a baseball camp here is the quality of the coaching that is on hand. Overseeing our coaches is Dan Simonds, our director of baseball. Prior to arriving in Bradenton to run our baseball camps, he served as head coach at Xavier and Miami Universities.

Helping him prepare you for success with your future baseball experiences are numerous coaches who also possess years of high-level college, minor league and major league experience. Multiple IMG coaches have played in the MiLB and MLB.

One example of a player who has benefited from all of these resources is Elijah Green, who Baseball Factory ranked as the top prospect of the current class and who played for IMG Academy’s varsity team.

Baseball camps by season

One of the best features that IMG Academy offers is baseball camps throughout the year. You have an option of a summer baseball camp, a fall baseball camp, a winter baseball camp and a spring baseball camp. Also make sure to consider our special holiday baseball camps, which many do in lieu of a regular winter baseball camp.

Perhaps you have been searching for “summer baseball camps near me” and discovered IMG baseball camps, whether our location fits the description of a summer baseball camp near you or not. Regardless of our proximity to you, one of the reasons why a summer baseball camp in Bradenton is popular is because it’s timing generally corresponds with school vacations.

June-August is an especially busy time for our baseball camps, resulting in a summer baseball camp here being great for the competition, training and facilities.

Meanwhile, a fall baseball camp might fit your needs better. This is because fall baseball camps can help prepare you for the fall season or be done after it is over as you turn your focus to winter training.

Winter baseball camps are offseason baseball camps that provide you with the ability to enjoy year-round training. Of course, winter baseball camps, our most popular offseason baseball camps, are particularly inviting for players from colder climates, but many of our winter baseball camp attendees are also from Florida and other warm states.

In fact, December-March are amongst the busiest months of the year for our IMG baseball camps.

Also, several of our holiday baseball camps take place in the winter. Examples of popular holiday baseball camps that we hold are three-day ones that occur before and after Christmas. Holiday baseball camps often focus specifically on pitching, catching or hitting.

Of course, spring baseball camps are held at the time of the year that this sport is especially synonymous with although this time is also not as popular as some others for our baseball camps because so many are playing high school and similar forms of competitive baseball then.

With that said, IMG’s spring baseball camps provide you with the same level of specialized coaching while access to our tremendous facilities and training methods will, of course, be a part of your spring baseball camp experience.

Note that whether you would like to, for example, take advantage of a summer baseball camp or a spring baseball camp or perhaps one of our holiday camps, they can be overnight youth baseball camps, or you can also handle your housing elsewhere and not have boarding included.

Baseball camps by age groups

Every baseball camp that we offer is tailored to the age group of those in attendance. Examples include youth baseball camps, high school baseball camps, college baseball camps and pro baseball camps.

Youth baseball camps, otherwise known as kids’ baseball camps, help younger players prepare for high school and travel ball and any baseball opportunities that may follow. Our youth baseball camps are specifically designed with this age group in mind.

With that said, do note that our youth baseball camps are limited to those 8 years of age and older during the summer, and our kids baseball camps are only accessible to those at least 10 years of age throughout the rest of the year.

Youth baseball camps provide more of a focus on the fundamentals of the sport that older players will have most likely mastered. For these young players, youth baseball camps can result in success in Little League, Babe Ruth and similar types of ball.

High school baseball camps offer a great opportunity to take your game to the next level as you continue your high school career and help determine if you will get to enjoy any post-high school baseball opportunities.

In fact, much of the information that you will learn at this type of baseball camp will be applied throughout your baseball career, regardless of its duration.

Meanwhile, a college baseball camp will provide more advanced training, partially because the game is played at a higher level there, plus you may have professional playing ambitions that a college baseball camp could help you realize.

Our college baseball camps generally involve specialized drills and focuses that will help you reach your potential sooner than would otherwise be possible.

Although exceptions obviously exist, underclassmen taking part in a college baseball camp at IMG Academy are often looking to secure starting places on their teams while upperclassmen at these college baseball camps often want to solidify their spots in the lineup and be amongst the best in their conferences.

We also feature pro baseball camps for those who are already professional and either want to reach the major leagues or are already there and looking for more success at that level. In particular, former Pittsburgh Pirates players Andrew McCutchen and Neil Walker both experienced eye and reaction-time improvement following vision training here. The same technology applied to our pro training is delivered to our baseball camps.

Whether you are looking to take advantage of our junior baseball camps, our pro baseball camps or one in between those ages and skill levels, you will be assured of receiving coaching from instructors who have proven experience with all age groups. At any IMG camp, whatever your baseball skills are, you will receive unique training to your age and goals.

Baseball boarding program

IMG Academy also provides a baseball boarding school option for those looking to take advantage of hitting training, pitching training, educational offerings and other aspects of being here that go beyond our top baseball camps.

Our academic offerings are amongst the nation’s best, and our culture also teaches character development and social responsibility. We want all of our baseball players to be ready for what follows in life, on and off the diamond.

Students in our IMG baseball boarding school also get to experience different cultures without leaving the campus as our student body is comprised of individuals from dozens of other countries as well as from throughout the United States. That helps everyone grow more than is possible in many other educational and athletic settings.

IMG Academy boarding school is available to Grades 6-12 and Post-Graduates looking to gain a competitive edge. Student-athletes prepare for collegiate athletics with schedules mirroring those of some of the nation’s top sport programs. Our college prep curriculum includes both AP and Honors courses. Specialized tutoring is also available if a student-athlete is engaged in sport-related travel across the country. IMG Academy boarding school balances academics with athletics in a supportive, engaging environment. Our student body is represented by over 60 countries including: China, England, Brazil, Japan, and Mexico. Our student-athletes are committed to the highest level of success both on and off the field.