Summer Sports Camps 101: A Guidebook for Development and Operation (Sport Management Library) - Softcover

Summer Sports Camps 101 is a comprehensive guide for creating and operating a summer sports camp. New or seasoned coaches, sports industry practitioners, and camp administrators in youth and college-level sports will benefit from author Richard Leonard s extensive experience in planning and managing successful sports camps. This guidebook streamlines the process of conceptualizing, developing, operating, and concluding the summer sports camp season for camp administrators and coaches. Key administrative, management, and marketing considerations are also provided in an easy-to-read format that includes quick camp tips, sample forms, and helpful lists."

Dr. Richard Leonard’s experience in summer camps (both recreational and athletic) is extensive. As an NCAA Division I volleyball head coach, Leonard conducted traditional day camps, specialty skill sessions, coaches’ clinics, and team camps. Additionally during his coaching career, Leonard worked as a clinician at numerous high school and college camps and coaches’ clinics. For six years at the Jewish Community Center in St. Petersburg, Florida, he was a summer camp divisional counselor, activities director and program coordinator. Leonard is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Business Administration and Accounting at Flagler College in Tallahassee, Florida. He also serves as an adjunct professor of sport management at the United States Sports Academy, teaching human resource management, marketing, and fundraising at the graduate level, as well as strategic management at the doctoral level. He currently resides in Tallahassee, Florida.

Author's three most recent books:

• Principles of Sport Administration, ISBN: 9781935412496
• Fundraising for Sport and Athletics, ISBN: 9781935412335
• Administrative Side of Coaching, 9781885693839