Overview
Our Leadership Sports Camp Concept is "built for the big kids"! Incoming 6th-8th graders don't want to be at the little kids camp any more. They are longing for more choices, more responsibility, more flexibility, deeper interactions and exciting opportunities to take charge of their day. They want to learn leadership skills through experiences, not lectures. They still enjoy playing camp games, but are transitioning from "recess games" to engaging in challenging, intense, well organized and competitive game activities. Our non-traditional Sports Camp games are the perfect fit as they include and motivate the "not-so-athletic" but also challenge the gifted athlete!
Bald Eagle couples our unique games with a hands-on curriculum of leadership experiences and choices that the pre-teen is starving for. We are confident that "leadership through a sports experience" is a powerful tool to prepare children for adulthood. With a different leadership theme each week that instigates new discussions and obstacles, incoming 6th-8th graders can get a refreshed experience even if they attend every session or come for multiple summers.
The Leadership Sports Camp is also a lead-in experience for those campers looking to transition to becoming a coach at Bald Eagle once they've aged out of our camp (entering 9th grade). For youth entering 9th & 10th grade, we offer the premier leadership volunteer experience in the Bay Area called the Coach In Training Program (CIT).
Daily Programming
More than ever before preteens need a compass, a guideline, a clear picture of what it means to be a successful teenager and adult. They can get that picture here at Bald Eagle Camps, framing a clear target on how they can be their best in every area of their life.
This sports & leadership camp is designed to be highly active and fun, not a lecture based venue. Campers are given choices about what they want to do throughout the day. They are given responsibilities to manage with their fellow JumpOUT campers and offered opportunities to lead different events across the camp day to enhance their leadership skills and social development.
The program varies a bit from LARGE SITE Program (Los Altos) to our SMALL SITE Program (currently Los Gatos, SJ & Fremont). Both offer different perks but the same programming. Large site as you might assume has more teams, so more varied social interactions and game variations. Small site has a tighter knit group and has more flexiblity with project and game choices, and get more peer interactions with coaches. Both programs are loved by the campers bc they are treated like young adults, not little kids.
Incoming 6th-8th graders need something more than the traditional options that are out there for their age group, like sport specific or academically focused camp choices. The reality is they are aging-out of a lot of things, but that makes the transition that much more important so Bald Eagle is addressing that need. Pre-Teens thrive when allowed more freedom, opportunity, choice & inclusion with the coaching staff. We offer all of this value and depth of programming wrapped in a fun summer camp sports experience.
It's hard to fathom sometimes, frightening in fact, that our incoming 6th-8th grader is on the "cliff of adulthood". Countless life-threatening situations that mandate sound decision making skills are just around the corner. Is your child ready? Sadly, at the time when they need to listen the most, part of their transition to adulthood involves them not being as "attuned" to the voice of mom & dad. It's in this pre-teen period where parents need to associate their child with quality peer mentors or mentors who are worth looking up to, and Bald Eagle provides the best role-models around.
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Coaches
Coach Bob is the Founder & CEO of Bald Eagle Sports Camps. He has taught Special Ed and PE since 1995, currently at Los Altos HS. Coach Bob has over 25 years coaching experience from youth to collegiate, is a Certified Positive Coaching Alliance Trainer and holds two Credentials along with a Masters in Special Education. In his 4 years as the Head Varsity Boys Basketball Coach at Los Altos High School he led the Eagles to 2 SCVAL titles ('13,'14) and the schools first ever Central Coast Section Championship (2015). Recently named by PCA as a Development Zone Leadership Fellow, Coach Bob believes children should have a place to feel encouraged, included, cared for, safe from bullying, free from negativity and expected to have as much fun as possible. At the same time, children need direction on how to be their best person in every given moment.
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Highlights
- Every member of the Bald Eagle staff is a PCA Certified Double Goal Coach
- Leadership Campers get to decide their own games schedule, lead younger campers and design segments of camp.
- Leadership Campers get a whistle and lanyard included, so they can officiate the Coaches Games!
- Free healthy & fresh lunch & morning snack!
- Movement Training AND FunFIT workout each week.
- Talks by guest speakers, including college/pro coaches & athletes.
- Value that goes beyond a week of camp – 12 months of PCA parenting resources
- Campers learn "sticky" life application tools that help them maintain a positive outlook in any environment, on or off the court.
- Unique GO ZONEFree Choice Period: We’ve found that kids love getting out of the gym for short pockets of time to participate in cross-sport movement training activities, go swimming, play our patented “ultimate” games, do arts/crafts, other traditional sports, play in the Activity Arcade, etc. Because we run several camps on one location, we can give them what their hearts desire, great choices! Our GO ZONE offers them the choice of several different stations across the campus for a period of the afternoons.
- See BENEFITS list on this page for more!