USA Baseball's inaugural Women's Development Camp takes place this weekend at the USA Baseball National Training Complex in Cary.
Details for that camp and camps in other sports, plus team tryouts, league registration, instruction and tournaments can be found in the Play! Recreational Sports Calendar below, an expanded version of the calendar that appears each Tuesday in the print edition Sports section.
Academic achievements, extracurricular activities and strong essays have earned three young athletes Touchstone Energy Sports Camp scholarships to sharpen their basketball skills this summer.
Winter started barely two weeks ago, but it's already time to count down to when pitchers and catchers report.
And that means parents planning to sign up children for spring baseball and softball leagues should plan now. Some area leagues fill up fast, and registration deadlines will arrive long before warm weather does.
To find leagues in numerous sports and instruction for all ages, check the Play! Recreational Sports Calendar regularly. The online version of the calendar is updated weekly, and the print version appears each Tuesday in the Sports section.
Free stuff is good, and a baseball game ticket and a complimentary
glove from Rawlings await the first 100 registrants for a May 22 youth
baseball clinic in Cary.
Players ages 8-14 will receive instruction from some of the nation's
best college players and coaches.
Leading the camp will be Mount Olive
College coach Carl Lancaster, who guided the Trojans to the 2008 NCAA
Division II championship and was the American Baseball Coaches
Association's national coach of the year.
An Olympic gold-medalist is coming to the Triangle to share his experiences and expertise with recreational and competitive swimmers.
Peter Vanderkaay, who won gold medals on the 800 freestyle relay teams at the Athens Olympics and the Beijing Olympics, will visit Raleigh for the clinic on April 17.
He will instruct swimmers during the Speedo Olympic Swim Clinic being held 9-11 a.m. at N.C. State's Willis Casey Natatorium.
Triangle athletes have a great chance to learn from a member of wrestling's Cesari family.
Former N.C. State standout Joe Cesari, son of the iconic Pennsylvania
high school coach by the same name, offers camps and instruction
through the Capital City Wrestling Club.
The younger Joe Cesari is the program director of the Capital City
Wrestling Club and its AAU youth wrestling program. The North Raleigh
club has 68 wrestlers in kindergarten through eighth grade.
Free golf instruction and free goodies! Those are things to like.
And if you've sort of been interested in golf but never gave it a try, this is an ideal opportunity to learn about the game.
More than 20 Carolinas PGA professionals will be giving 10-minute
lessons and free clinics, and the first 500 registrants receive a free
goody bag during the Carolinas PGA Play Golf America Day on Monday at TPC Wakefield Plantation.
