Summer 2025: the best year yet here at Signature Sports Camps. To recap, Summer 2025 brought new locations, exponential growth, and lots of happy campers. Between launching the New England location, growing over 30%, and working with over 75 coaches across our four locations… we sure did stay busy! Additionally, dozens of Resident Coaches (and Professional Headlining Athletes alike) came together to deliver focused programming on the field and positive mentorship off the field. As always, these special people made the difference in each camper’s time with us at Signature. So today, we are here to recap the year and share why athletes walk away from these overnight sports camps and comment on how “that was the best week of my summer”.
A Top-Rated Summer Camp Experience
Okay we aren’t here to just brag without bringing out the receipts. We care so much about the experience each athlete has at Signature Sports Camps, we beg our camp parents for feedback. After each session our Camp Executive Director sends out a survey – we always believe we can get better and always want to lean into what’s working. We ask about campers’ favorite coaches, we want to know if parents felt like they were ‘in the know’ when it came to communication, and we want to make sure each family felt their children were in the best of hands when it came to the safety and security of the program. The most important question we ask: “On a scale of 1-10, would you recommend this camp to a friend?”. Anyone in services knows what we are doing: we are getting our ‘Net Promotor Score’. We always shoot for over +8/10 with this rating and our Camp Locational Directors are accountable to that score. The 2025 results are in… we scored over +9/10 across our four locations with a +20% response rate. All’s to say… parents are happy, campers are coming back from camp stronger on the field, more fired up about their sport than ever, and overall a more confident individual. The data and testimonials show that the proof is indeed in the pudding.
Experienced & Caring Coaching Staff
At a sports camp, the coaches are (just about) everything. They can make or break the experience. If a coach is fully locked in, he or she can make camp exciting, fun, and impactful. Comparatively, you could get the coaches that are just there for a paycheck, and you see on their face that they are just looking forward to ‘lights out’. We all know the type.
How do we ensure that the Signature Sports Camp coaches truly are the best? A few ways:
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- We recruit: we don’t just wait for coaches to apply. We spend our ‘off season’ looking for the area’s best club, high school, and college coaches. We put these coaches through two sets of interviews, reference check, and of course background check.
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- We’re upfront: every coach knows they’re expected to be fully involved from day one. On the field we don’t just throw out a ball and have kids scrimmage. We expect coaches to demonstrate, jump into drills to push the pace, and proactively tweak mistakes. Each athlete is coming to camp to get better – our coaches don’t let the small things go by uncoached.
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- We train: at Signature, staff training is one part of our ‘secret sauce’. Coaches are trained in how we run on-field programming and come together to intentionally practice plan within our Player Development Model. Since Signature is accredited by the American Camp Association (ACA), we have over +275 standards in place for safety, wellness, supervision, and programming. Which means our staff has quite a lot of safety and supervision training to sit through (don’t worry, we do a lot of role playing and scenario-based training… it’s not too terrible).
… and all of that is just for the Resident Coaches. We also brought in over 15 Professional Athletes to headline sessions, creating a special day where athletes are learning from the best in their sport. Our Pro Headliners spend dedicated time with each camper in small group drills, live demonstrations, Q&A sessions, and of course we have time set aside for autographs and pictures.
Outdoor Adventures & Classic Summer Fun
At Signature Sports Camps, we combine the traditional sleepaway camp experience with focused sports training. Parents always comment how thrilled they are that they don’t have to enroll their child in two camps (a sleepaway camp AND a sports camp) to give their children these pivotal childhood experiences. In fact, we choose our Camp Locations with this exact thing in mind, “what can we do at this campus that gives our campers a taste of adventure?”. Here’s a glimpse into what camp excursions we pulled off in Summer 2025:
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- Florida Overnight Sports Camp: We love our Florida Location because we don’t have to go off campus to get the full Florida experience… the beach and Gulf of Mexico is right on the other side of our main sports training field. In 2025, Florida campers paddle boarded through the mangroves and ended their session with a dance party on the beach with a professional DJ and everything.
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- Tennessee Overnight Sports Camp: Our Tennessee Locations are right on the Chamberlin Plateau in the southern tail of the Appalachian Mountains… which means waterfalls, hiking, and lookouts are stunning. Each year we load up the buses and take our campers to Foster Falls: a half a mile trail that leads to a huge waterfall that campers can jump right in and swim in. This year, we took our older campers that were signed up for the Crossover Weekend on the Fiery Gizzard Trail – a longer trail that took us to two waterfalls and gave the older campers a great opportunity to jump into the deep pools and cool off on a perfect summer afternoon in southern Tennessee. Safe to say… the Falls are ALWAYS a huge highlight.
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- The New York Overnight Location: Buses and Waterfalls make an appearance in at the 2025 New York Camp too! We took our campers about 45 mins north of our location on Keuka Lake to the Watkins Glen State Park. We are always so thrilled with the park staff on this excursion: they dedicate their best tour guide, Josh Teeter, to our group. Tour Guide Josh gives our kids the history of the hundreds of waterfalls and gorges within the park as we hike through the falls. After about an hour of hiking, campers cool off in the park pool – which has the best set of diving boards in the state!
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- And finally, New England Overnight: We were THRILLED to surprise our campers with one of the best excursions of the summer… tubing around the lake! Boat rides, paddleboarding, and kayaking were already on the camp schedule. But when the campers were begging us to add tubing to the program, we had to make it happen for them. And what a highlight it was!
…now do you believe us when we say it’s been the best (and busiest) summer yet? We are on a journey to build the best experience a sports camp can offer a developing athlete, which we believe happens both on and off the field. Our Resident Coaches, the Schedule, and our hand-picked Locations made that possible in Summer 2025.
And we are just getting started: Summer 2026 will bring more sports tracks, more sessions to choose from, and more of these amazing coaches we love to brag about. Check out the Summer 2026 programming and don’t forget: 2026 Enrollment launches October 1st for New Campers (September 26th for Returning Campers!).
