Prepping for Helping with the UVA Camp

I believe I've mentioned this in the past, but aside from being a police officer I am also an assistant baseball coach at a local high school.  It is this love of baseball that has actually lead me to doing my mentorship for the University of Virginia baseball program.  So, I recently was asked if I could help with their annual camps.  I was very excited because UVA has an elite program.  However, it dawned on me the other day that I may have been asked because of my mentorship and not because of my baseball knowledge.  This created a little bit of hesitation on my behalf because I didn't want to look ridiculous to my mentor or the other coaches by thinking I was being asked to do anything on-field.  I started to think that perhaps they just needed me for logistics or administrative things.   Well, I obviously couldn't not ask, so I did.  To my delight, I have been asked to be an on-field instructor as well.  Know, I am also helping with the preparation for the camp; equipment set-up, paperwork, etc.  This is very exciting to me because I will be able to offer something to younger athletes while still learning about the business side of the program.  As with so many larger programs, as I am learning, there is an unpaid volunteer coach.  In UVA's case, this is Coach Kirby.  Coach Kirby runs the camps and the money that comes in is filtered through the program, but ultimately is what pays Coach Kirby's salary.  So, the success of the camps has a direct correlation to how much the Volunteer Coach makes as well as continues to build the lore of the baseball program.  The first camp, July 15 - 18, will be for elementary and middle school kids, so we probably won't be looking for any recruits.  However, the camp at the end of the month, July 28 - 30 is for high school students and this is where student-athletes that have an inkling of wanting to play for UVA come to camp hoping to impress the coaches enough to warrant them [coaches] paying attention to their high school career.  More on that experience after that camp.