Skyhawks Sports Academy

Our kids have participated in Skyhawks Youth Sports Camps for years. The coaches are great with the kids — they’re experienced, enthusiastic and encouraging. The camps have always been a great experience for our kids.

Yet another wonderful way to channel off kids’ natural «hyperactivity!»
My seven-​year-​old Wild Child is currently attending the Skyhawks half-​day baseball camp for 6 – 8 year-​old kids. It’s a program that Alameda Parks and Recreation Department coordinates with its Summer Program Aftercare at the park’s local camp. This is the third Skyhawks camp he’s attended. Last year he attended two «Minihawk» camps for 4 – 6 year olds which combine basketball, soccer, and baseball which is obviously suitable for the younger short attention spans.
My now teen MySpace cadet also took the soccer and flag football Skyhawks Sports camps when he was younger in Piedmont. My then neighbor in Oakland’s teen son, who was a Cal. Sports Camp counselor through UCB told me that the Skyhawks coaches actually trained his group and spoke very highly of them.
The Skyhawks coaches do have to creatively problem-​solve quite a bit. For example, when my MySpace cadet was in the flag football sports camp, he and one other boy were at least a foot taller then the rest of the same age group. MySpace cadet was slim, however, and the other guy was a big, well, let’s just say like «Baby Huey.» On the first day playing flag football, Baby Huey promptly fell-​tackled (yes, even though it was «flag football») on the smallest camper putting that camper out of commission for the rest of the week. The coach creatively solved the «Baby Huey» issue by having my MySpace cadet «block» Baby Huey from falling on any other campers for the rest of the week! Workin’ the offense and defense very well. It worked!
All of these camps, in my experience, have excellent coaches who place emphasis on fun, safety and sportsmanship. Could you ask for much more from a summer camp?
PS: for those Unilocalers who either are too young, stoned, enebriated and/​or too old and senile to remember what Baby Huey looked like: