Hi-Five Sports - Naperville, IL

Hi-Five Sports - Naperville, IL offers School Break Camps, a Summer Camp, Hi-Five Flag Football, a Hi-Five Hoops Clinic, the Hi-Five Team Sports Skill Academy, sports leagues, and birthday parties. These eight-week sports extravaganzas are described as the highlight of kids’ summers. The program welcomes campers of all abilities and immerses them in multiple sports, games, and healthy activities, with multi-sport offerings in leagues, camps, and parties.

• Schedule: Eight-week sessions

Hi-Five Sports - Naperville, IL is part of a larger organization that began in 1990 with Hi-Five Sports Camp in Northfield, Illinois, added a second location in Chicago in 2000, expanded to year-round sports programming in 2006, launched in Scottsdale, Arizona and Menlo Park, California in 2011, opened its first Hi-Five Sports Zone brick and mortar location in San Francisco in 2014, launched its franchise system in 2015, marked its 30th anniversary in 2020, and reported 15 locations in 7 states in 2022. Its unique SPORT ZONES are designed specifically for children from preschool to 8th grade, with field sizes, hoop heights, and a mascot named Hi-Five Murphy tailored to kids. The program states that it provides high quality youth sports experiences in a safe, well-equipped, and positive environment and believes in giving kids a break from technology and social media.

The organization’s mission is to use sports as a tool to promote positive character in youth through coaching, to coach behavior first with clear expectations, and to use positive reinforcement while helping children understand the “why” when playing sports. It describes itself as a low pressure sports environment without yelling and screaming, using sports for kids’ entertainment and keeping kids active, moving, involved, and engaged. Its personal growth principles include teamwork, respect, leadership, sportsmanship, friendship, loyalty, and family, and it emphasizes inclusive training, games, teamwork, and entertainment that create lifelong memories.

Camps and all programs are led by experienced professionals who love working with kids. In a testimonial, a parent describes the director, Ian Thomas, as wonderful and says he goes out of his way to make sure the kids are happy, safe, and have fun. Another parent says the skills their children have learned on and off the court are things they could never teach them and calls Hi-Five an integral part of the community. A third parent reports being blown away by the camps and every staff member they have seen and met, describing everyone as extremely friendly, organized, and energetic, and says their kids love coming and will continue to do so for many years. Hi-Five has been named “The Nation’s #1 Youth Sports Entertainment Franchise.”

Last updated May 27, 2026.