Showball Head Coach Academic Camps

Showball Head Coach Academic Camps offers baseball activities that include workouts, instructional work, coaching during the entire camp, positional showcase stations, and games. Campers take part in measurable activities such as the 60 yard dash, hitting exit velocity measurement, and arm velocity measurement for position players and pitchers.

• Ages: 14–18 years old
• Schedule: Two-day camp on June 16–17, 2025 (Tuesday and Wednesday)

Showball Head Coach Academic Camps was founded in 2007 by former professional players John Novak and Derek Ottevaere of the Texas Rangers Organization, with leadership transitioning in 2024 to Bruce Larkins. Showball states that its academic and showcase camps offer high school athletes the opportunity to learn from and be seen by head coaches and top assistants from prestigious academic and athletic schools in the country. The Head Coach Academic Camp in Chicago, IL includes all 8 Ivy League head coaches in attendance and multiple coaches from 40 programs, and Showball describes this as the nation’s only academic head coach camp and the nation’s largest showcase camp with 40 attending coaches at its Super Mega Showcase Camp. The program reports maintaining a near 2:1 coach-to-player ratio at every event, with all head coaches and recruiting coaches providing feedback, workouts, instructional work, and coaching for the entire camp, and states that all ballplayers are guaranteed to be seen personally by all head coaches or decision-making coaches during games and each positional showcase station. Showball notes that almost every coach who attends a Showcase camp represents the school’s head coach at their Head Coach Academic Camps, that all coaches listed on their site have fully committed to attend their events, and that it is one of the only camps in the country that provides ballplayers access to 30+ head coaches from top academic colleges in one location. Camps are open to any and all participants, limited only by position and participant capacity.

Parent and coach testimonials describe the camp as well run, professional, informative, and timely, with specific mention of extensive baseball activity and interaction with many head coaches. A Yale head coach, a Trinity University head coach, and several parents, including one identified as a federal judge, report positive experiences with the camp and its organization.

Last updated May 25, 2026.