Choose from the country's top college baseball camps

Looking into the best college baseball camps can seem a bit overwhelming at times.

However, choosing the best camp for your child just takes a little research and planning.

Generally, there are two options:

Day camps

In this scenario the parent usually drops the player off around 9:00am and picks them up around 3:00 or 4:00 in the afternoon.

Day camps often require the player to provide their lunch and or snack. Larger camps will either provide a lunch for the players or at least open the concession stand.

It is always best to bring a drink bottle. However, camps do provide drink stations for players.

Other items to bring to the day camp include: bat, glove, helmet, protective cup and remember to wear baseball pants a hat and cleats. If you do not already have batting gloves it probably is a good idea to get some for a camp due to the number of swings a player takes in a day.

Overnight camps

Obviously as the name implies at an overnight camp you drop them off on Monday morning and pick them up Friday afternoon.

The camp is responsible for your kids all of the time. This is great fun for young baseball players because it is often assistant coaches or collegiate players that are chaperoning the players in the evening.

This can also be a bad thing because it is often assistant coaches or collegiate players that are chaperoning the players in the evening.

Once you have determined if you will be spending the night or not there will be other considerations in your decision.

1. Instructors-Will the coaching staff run the camp or will it be conducted by players, local instructors and high school coaches?

2. Ratio of players to instructors-What is the player:instructor ratio. A 10:1 ratio is standard. If it is less than 10:1 students receive more attention and if it is greater than 10:1 it may be unsafe.

3. Ages of participants-Make sure that the camp is age appropriate. Even if the camp is for ages 9-16 and your kid is 15 double check to verify that there will be a good number of participants at that age. The last thing you want for your 15 year old is to show up to a camp that is predominantly 9 and 10 year old players.

4. Food and drinks-Verify if you need to send a lunch and drink with your player. Some camps provide a lunch while others make the concession stand available to purchase snacks and drinks.

Now that you have some guidelines in choosing a camp, here are links to some of the best college baseball camps in the country.

I can speak from experience that GA Tech runs a great camp. I instructed several of their sessions and it is very well run.

I only know the other college baseball camps by their reputation and what I have heard from other instructors and clients.