Questions parents ask.

Registration opens county by county as clinic dates are confirmed. Join the list on the registration page with your sport, your athlete's age band, and your city, and we'll email you as soon as a clinic that fits opens near you.

Pricing is posted with each event, along with its refund and transfer terms. A clinic is a contained, short commitment — two or three days — rather than a season of fees, travel, and uniforms.

No. Each clinic stands on its own. Some families come once before a tryout; others come back each season for a different sport or the next age band.

To join the list we only ask for a parent's contact details, the sport, the age band, and your city. At registration we collect what we need to run a safe clinic — your athlete's name and age, emergency contacts, authorized pick-up adults, and any medical notes you choose to share. See our privacy policy for details.

Athletic clothes, the right shoes for the surface, a full water bottle, a snack, and sunscreen for outdoor sports. Each sport page lists sport-specific gear such as kneepads, shin guards, or a glove. Bring your own equipment if you have it.

Yes. Parents are welcome to watch from the designated spectator area. We ask that coaching come from the coaches during the session, so athletes hear one consistent message.

A parent or guardian checks the athlete in with a staff member. At the end of the day, athletes are released only to a parent, guardian, or an adult you have listed as an authorized pick-up.

Session length depends on age band — shorter for our youngest athletes, longer for older ones. The age groups page lists the typical length for each band, and each event lists its exact times.

Ages 5 to 18, in four age bands: Foundations (5–8), Builders (9–11), Pre-Tryout (12–14), and Varsity Prep (15–18). Athletes train with their age band.

Yes. Many of our athletes have only played rec ball or have never played the sport at all. Clinics start with fundamentals, and coaches group athletes by experience within an age band when numbers allow.

It can be. Club athletes come to clinics to work on a specific skill, to learn a second sport, or to get focused technical work before a school tryout. A clinic complements a club season; it doesn't replace one.

No program can promise that, and we won't. What a clinic does is help an athlete arrive at tryouts prepared: cleaner fundamentals, a sense of what to expect, and confidence. The decision belongs to the school's coaches.

Ideally a few weeks before, so there's time to practice what they learned before the tryout itself. Our tryout calendar shows typical tryout windows for each sport, and tryout intensives are scheduled in the weeks before them. Always confirm exact dates with your school's athletic department.

No. Elevate doesn't field teams. The third day of a tryout intensive simulates the drills athletes are likely to see at a school tryout, but nobody is being selected for anything — it's practice.

Yes. Every coach and staff member completes a background check, mandated-reporter training, CPR / First Aid / AED certification, and concussion-recognition training before working a clinic.

Our on-site safety lead and certified staff provide first aid and contact you right away. For a suspected head injury, the athlete sits out for the rest of the day and needs written clearance from a licensed health care provider before returning to an Elevate clinic.

We add water breaks, move work into shade or indoors where possible, lower the intensity, and schedule summer sessions earlier in the day at inland sites. Coaches are trained to recognize the signs of heat illness.