North Orange County Sports Camps

Mater Dei High School, Contact: Burt Call, 1202 W Edinger Ave. Santa Ana, 92707 (714) 850-9580. Camps are designed for players in grades 2-9. A freshman Development League is also available to incoming freshmen. Camps are usually held in June and July at the Rod Dedeaux Baseball Complex at Mater Dei High School. All the Mater Dei coaches are involved in coaching and evaluation. There may be a camp during the Christmas winter break. Call for details.

Lifeletics Baseball Academy (Serving all of Orange County) Dan Keller, (714) 875-5294. Lifeletics offers a unique format blending benefits of individual instructional lessons with those of traditional station-to-station camps. Additional emphasis placed on mental strength, and application of skills to other areas of young lives! High quality: 6:1 athlete to instructor ratio. Instructor and director, Dan Keller has authored an instructional manual. It includes: pitch selection and theory, the motion broken down into teachable sections, and then provides an executable plan that parents/coaches can follow to teach beginning pitchers. View the manual: "Coaching The Beginning Pitcher."Contact us for more information on our Summer/Winter 2008 academies in South Orange County, Anaheim Hills and Huntington Beach.

Cal State Fullerton Baseball, Director: Rick Vanderhook, (714) 278-3789. Available camps: Christmas Winter Camp for ages 7 to 12th grade, Four summer sessions include Youth Camp, usually in June & July for ages 7-12, Junior Camp, in July for ages 13-15, High School Camp, usually begins in late July for ages 16-18 and provides an overnight Residential or commuter option. Call for more details.

Clyde Wright Pitching School Clyde Wright, 711 S. Beach Blvd., Anaheim 92804, (714) 828-5860. Year-round personal pitching instruction by former major league baseball pitcher. Pitched a no-hitter in 1970 with the California Angels.

Personal Instruction by Nelson Straley Nelson Straley, (714) 667-1986. Personal instruction for ages 10 to adult. Specializes in hitting, pitching and catching. Former professional player. For girls and boys.

Mark Cresse School of Baseball, Contact: Jeff Pressman (714) 892-6145. Locations: Huntington Beach, Costa Mesa, Villa Park, Irvine and Aliso Viejo. Intensive fundamental training taught by local high school and college coaches to meet each individuals needs. Team games are non-competitive and instructional.

Charger Summer Baseball Camp, (714) 821-7870. 9200 Valley View, Cypress 90630. Held at Cypress college for boys and girls, ages 5-15. Three sessions available in June & July. College coaches instruct all the necessary fundamentals with emphasis on hitting.

Sluggers Professional Baseball Instruction Darren Nelson 18101 Redondo, Unit P, Huntington Beach 92647, (714) 375-1775. Instructor, Darren Nelson was an NCAA All-American at Chapman University and played four years with the Angels and Cardinals organizations. A well lighted indoor hitting facility for group, team or individual lessons on a year round basis. Pro shop featuring Mizuno equipment.

Basketball

Eagle Basketball Camp at Concordia University, (Irvine) Email Ken Ammann, or phone (949) 854-8002 ext 1416. Our camps provide the best environment anywhere for skill improvement. All of our day camps offer a solid foundation for all fundamentals of the game, motivation and positive self-esteem. Our teaching progression takes into account age and skill differences. Coaches work with their teams all week to maximize individual and team development. The goal of Eagle Basketball Camp is for all campers to work hard and feel good about themselves in a disciplined, highly-structured, motivated, fun environment. We place the child and his/her personal development ahead of the game. Positive encouragement and measured improvement in the fundamental skills are trademarks of our camps, as well as players learning to work together in a team setting.

THE 22nd ANNUAL TOM MARUMOTO SHOOTING AND OFFENSIVE SKILLS BASKETBALL CAMPS, (Santa Ana and Newport Beach) Contact: Tom Marumoto, (949) 644-5026. Our camps are for GIRLS and BOYS, grades 4-8th, July 19-23, 9am-1pm, to be held at Sage Hill High School, Newport Beach; grades 9-12th, August 2-6, 9am-4pm, Godinez High School, Santa Ana. Tom and his coaching staff are dedicated to help athletes properly develop and improve their Shooting and Offensive Individual Fundamental Skills and their application into team play. Much emphasis will be on footwork/body balance, ball handling, dribbling, passing, especially shooting, individual and team concepts, decision making and conditioning. Other priniciples will be instilled including attitude, values, learning principles, team work, hard work and fun. For further information, call Tom (949) 644 5026 or email: marumotobasketball@yahoo.com or visit our website: www.marumotobasketball.com.

MARUMOTO BASKETBALL ACADEMY, (Newport Beach) Contact: Tom Marumoto, (949) 644-5026. Tom Marumoto is a renown Shooting and Offensive Skills Coach. Today's athletes are bigger, stronger, faster, jump higher and quicker, but it is important to know that the basic fundamental offensive skills are the foundation of the game of basketball and are essential to be an excellent player. MARUMOTO BASKETBALL ACADEMY helps the athlete by teaching, developing and improving their individual offensive skills which include: shooting, footwork/body balance, ball handling, dribblling, passing, moves without ball, moves with ball, screening, rebounding, etc. The OFF-SEASON TRAINING is a critial time period where players should continue to work and distance themselves on their competitors. In addition, to individual offensive skills and technique development, we assist you with a daily workout training program, help you further develop team play, strength, conditioning, competitiveness, and mental game. For further questions, call Tom Marumoto, (949) 644-5026.

Mater Dei Summer Basketball, Gary McKnight (714) 850-9578. 1202 W. Edinger Ave., Santa Ana 92707. Experience the tradition that our camp offers. Three sessions usually held in June. Sessions # 1 & 2, for 7th-9th grade. Session # 3 for 3rd-6th grades.

Shoreline Summer Sizzle Camp (714) 962-6886. Shoreline Baptist Church in Fountain Valley offers camps in June for youths in grades 6th-8th and grades 2nd-5th. Gymnasium on site.

Tustin Basketball Summer Camp (714) 730-7446. 1171 El Camino Real, Tustin 92780. Usually held in July/August for boys and girls in grades 3rd-8th at Tustin High School. Five days of personal coaching to improve individual and team skills. Guest speakers.

Football

Football Skills Development Camps Contact: Leroy Irvin, 714-749-2819. We are beginning registration for our FOOTBALL SKILLS DEVELOPMENT CAMPS 2009, DATES: SATURDAYS from Feb-June. TIME 9am-11AM LIMTED TO FIRST 50 PLAYERS Ages 7-13 COST: $40 PER DAY Hands on instruction in each Offensive and Defensive position and the techniques required to excel at that position. We will work on agility drills, form running, speed and resistance training. Camp instructors are former NFL players. Vince Ferragamo (LA Rams)---Quarterbacks LeRoy Irvin (LA Rams)---Defensive Backs Ron Brown (Rams/Raiders) Receivers/Speed Training Cephus Weatherspoon (Saints) Receivers David Hill (Lions/Rams) Tight ends Lucious Smith (Rams/Chiefs/Chargers) Linebackers/Lou's Training Regiie Doss (Rams) Defensive line Jackie Slater (Rams) Offensive line Dennis Harrah (Rams) Offensive line Duval love (Rams/Steelers/Cardinals Offensive line AJ Jones (Rams) Running Backs Just to name a few of our instructors.

West Football Camp Rod Gatlin (800) 500-2109. Staff includes former and current professional football players as well as college players. Both boys and girls starting at age 8 up to 18. Camps start in late June and go through July. Training in all positions except punting and kicking.

Golf

Orange County Junior Golf Academy Lynn Stone, 1051 N. Meads, Orange 92689 (714) 538-5030. For 6 to 17 year old boys and girls. Featuring former PGA pro Lynn Stone and other former PGA tour players as instructors. Usually begins the latter part of June and operates through August. Twelve camps are offered.

Hockey

Rocky Mountain Hockey Schools, (Yorba Linda) Contact: Mike Gempeler, (800) 898-8099 or (303) 455-6659. Conducting our Power Skating & Stick Handling camp at Yorba Linda Ice Palace. RMHS offers offense, defense, scoring, conditioning, specialty, powerskating and stickhandling camps year round. Our staff includes professional, European, collegiate, junior, USA Hockey and prep school coaches. Along with 3 hours on-ice daily, our summer programs include a 90 minute, intensive dryland training session, where we continue our plyometric and overspeed training off-ice through the use of bungie cords, speed chutes, power straps and agility ladders. Age groupings: "Mites & Squirts and PeeWees-Midget."

Junior Hockey Pros Geoff Wilson Fountain Valley, (714) 235-0426. We provide instruction for all skill levels. We currently have 25 teams in three divisions of play from Kindergarten to eighth grade. Call for the JH Pro rink nearest you.

Multi Sports

Tactix Training Center, Contact: William Holland, 562-592-1168. Located in Huntington Beach. Speed, Agility, Explosiveness, Balance, Flexibility, Stamina, Timing, Vision, Tactics & Mental Toughness. Group & Private Sessions. Sport Specific Weight Training, Martial Arts Cross Traiining.

Soccer

Orange County Women's Soccer League, Fountain Valley (714) 518-4877. For females 18 years and older. Camps are normally held in July and January. The summer camp is coached by college players and other coaches from OCWSL. The winter camp has been ran by UK Soccer Camps. The OCWSL runs both leagues and tournaments. The summer league is six per side. Home site is Mile Square Park.

Sports-Performance

"Athlete Builders," Athlete Development/Weightlifting. Director: John Fox, (949) 271-9535, 17595 Harvard, Suite C-563, Orange. The first long-term athlete development program in Orange County. Joe Carbone is well-known as the first exclusive trainer to Kobe Bryant for nearly a decade. Currently the Los Angeles Lakers Strength & Conditioning Coach, he co-founded Athlete Builders with John Fox. The program is backed by sport-science research around the globe, yet is new to U.S. athletes. Joe Carbone's 5 Point training philosophy: Foundation Training, Fundamental Movement Training, ABC Training, Performance Training and Collateral Aptitude Training. The inaugural academy in September welcomes athletes of all ages, from all sports Star Academy (Boys & Girls, ages 5-8), All-Star Academy (Boys & Girls, ages 9-12), Junior Varsity Academy (Boys & Girls, ages 13-15), Varsity Academy (Boys & Girls, ages 16-18), Elite Academy (Men & Women, age 19+), Weekend Warrior Academy (Men & Women, all ages). Additional academies are being scheduled in the immediate future. Early registration is encouraged. Visit: www.AthleteBuilders.com" for camp dates, details, and location.

Surfing

Corky Carroll's Surf School, Rick Walker, (714) 841-0253. Operated by world renowned Surfing Champion, Corky Carrrol. Instructors are all certified Lifeguards. The age of instruction begins at about age five and up to adults. Held in or near Huntington Beach. Offers a surf camp in Costa Rica. For both boys and girls.

California Junior Lifeguard Program - "Super Surf Camps" Contact: Program Director, Jim Balok (714) 901-9030. Swimmers, surfers and body boarders of all skill and ability levels, ages 8 through adult are eligible to attend. Must have ocean/surf swimming experience. Includes first-aid/CPR orientation. Surfers receive t-shirt, surf magazine, loaner board and use of a wet suit. Two surf camps held during Easter break and weekly during the summer starting the 2nd week of June until September, 9:00 am till 3:00 pm. South County - Doheny County Lot, Harbor Drive/Puerto Place. North County - Sunset Beach Park, PCH/Warner.

Tennis

Tennis For Everybody, Email Cici Louie, or phone (714) 839-0931. For all players 12-18 years, looking to improve their tournament results and/or move up on their high school team, the Sunny Hills High Summer Competition camp is for you. We highlight MATCH PLAY (league format vs other HS teams and clubs). Drills, stategy, instruction, conditioning, on non-match days. Signs ups are now being accepted. Please call for application. Camp is conducted in June/July(2 sessions). For those looking for more individual attention, PRIVATE LESSONS are available year round all levels and ages( tots thru adults). Signs ups are also being taken for Placentia, Yorba Linda, and Anaheim city programs. Tennis For Everybody recommends a new children's book by Coach John Wooden, Steve Jamison and Peanut Louie Harper. Based upon Coach John Wooden�s Pyramid of Success, Inch and Miles: The Journey to Success" delivers an essential message about success and striving for one�s personal best. Order from Amazon.com or call Perfection Learning (800) 831-4190.

Orange County Tennis Academy at Ridgeline Country Club Mike Nelson, 1051 Meads Ave., Orange 92869 (714) 771-2410. For boys and girls from ages 4 to 18. One week camps are held during the summer months. During the fall, winter and spring there are monthly camps, clinics and classes. Five professioanl instructors on staff provide private instruction.

Volleyball

Junior Varsity Clinics/Program, (Fountain Valley) Contact: e-mail TCA Volleyball or phone: 949-706-6963. Join our weekly Junior Varsity program and learn all aspects of our successful volleyball system with our coaches. For ages 12-15 and held on Friday and Sunday evenings at Los Caballeros Sports Club. Play higher level volleyball for your middle school and before entering high school, without making a club commitment. Also perfect for continuing indoor volleyball during the summer months. Program is based on the successful TCA system, which has lead to 3 Open Jr. National Championships in the last 5 years.

VolleyTots & Wannabeez Volleyball Programs, (Fountain Valley) Contact: e-mail TCA-Vtots or TCA-Wannabz. Phone 949-706-6963. Enjoy our popular weekly Volleytots and Wannabeez programs where you learn the simple fundaments of how to really play volleyball! Our Volleytots, ages 3-7, and Wannabeez, ages 7-12, programs are held Sunday evenings. Learn and play with our special volleyballs and individual and team drills that the TCA Volleyball Club coaches will use to make the game fun and stimulating to play. It becomes more fun when your friends are playing, so include them in the program too.

VBClinics.com, (Laguna Beach) Contact: Pat Powers, Phone: 760 635-3994. THE NUMBER ONE VOLLEYBALL CAMP IN THE NATION IS COMING TO YOU!!!! On August 15-16, 2009 Olympic Gold Medalist, Pat Powers will conduct a two-day volleyball clinic at Laguna Beach High School. The clinic is for junior and adult players. Coach Powers� states: "Unlike other camps, this clinic is very technique oriented. I have develop a curriculum that OVER-CORRECTS flaws and weaknesses in your game. I don't teach you how to play volleyball, I teach you how to teach yourself to play the game. I have spent nineteen years playing at the highest level and the last six coaching. I have developed a program that enables both the junior and advanced player to learn in a comfortable non-intimidating environment."

Yoga/Pilates

Yoga and Pilates, (Orange County & Long Beach areas). E-mail: Lori Davis. Private or small group instruction in yoga and pilates. AFAA Certified (American Fitness Association of America) and trained yoga and pilates teacher for 24 hour fitness for 2+ years. CPR certified. Please Contact through email for more information.