The Notre Dame Fall All-Star Baseball Camp is one of the Midwest's premier baseball experiences for a high school student who aspires to play Division I college baseball. The camp is run under the direction of Head Coach David Schrage and Assistant Coach Graham Sikes who is the camp coordinator. Attendance at this camp requires the submission of ACT/SAT test scores, GPA, and high school transcripts. A focal point of this camp is an emphasis on Notre Dames requirement that its student athletes be on a successful path toward obtaining their college degree. Nothing less is deemed acceptable and Head Coach Dave Schrage made this point very clear to the players and parents who were in attendance for his Opening Welcome remarks on Saturday morning.
Coach Schrage has impressive credentials. He is a graduate of Creighton University in 1983, where he was an all-conference outfielder. He also earned a Master's Degree in Sports Administration from St. Thomas University (also known as Biscayne College) in Florida and steadily climbed the coaching ranks before becoming the Varsity Head Baseball Coach for the Irish. Schrage replaced Paul Mainieri, in 2006 who moved to take the LSU baseball head coaching position.
Prior to coming to Notre Dame he shaped Evansville into a power in the perennially tough Missouri Valley Conference; in his last season the Purple Aces won the regular-season and tournament championships and advanced to the NCAA regional title round for the first time. Schrage also brought respectability to baseball programs at Northern Illinois University and the University of Northern Iowa.
The Notre Dame Fall All-Star camp was held on Saturday September 8 and Sunday September 9, 2007. This national camp attracted student athletes from across the country. This particular camp had players from as far away as Texas, California and New York who were in attendance. The camp was also well attended by many Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio baseball players.
The Notre Dame All Star Camp has a reputation of a large number of the student athletes who attend eventually receiving Division I scholarships. The September 8-9 camp was Session I of the fall camp and had sufficient players to field four competitive teams which played games against each other. Each of the teams was coached by college coaches. Evaluations of hitting, defense and pitching are also a part of the camp program.
Frank Eck Stadium
The location of the baseball camp is Frank Eck Stadium, which is one of the finest college baseball facilities in the nation. The stadium opened in 1994 and seats 2,500 fans in the grandstand area and is nestled in among several of Notre Dame's athletic facilities. The stadium is illuminated for night games with state of the art lighting.
Also integral to the All Star baseball camp are the indoor and outdoor hitting and batting cage facilities which are used for both instruction and before each of the games by the camp participants. Eck Stadium is truly a first class place to play and to participate in a baseball camp.
Several players from the Chicago area were in attendance at this camp. Elk Grove High School, Nequa Valley High School, Loyola Academy, Whitney Young and St. Ignatius were some of the schools represented.
Jason Ormond 6' 2" ~ at First Base Jason Ormond
In attendance from Whitney Young High School in Chicago, Jason Ormond 6' 2" and 185 lbs. (Class of 2009) was one of the Notre Dame All Star Camp participants.
Whitney Young Magnet High School is one of the most academically rigorous high schools in the state of Illinois. Jason is a National Honors Student and a National Society of High School Scholars member with a cumulative Grade Point Average of 4.38 on a 5.0 scale.
At the Notre Dame Camp Jason pitched 3 innings in a simulated game situation, facing 13 batters. He allowed no earned runs; 2 Hits, 3 K’s and one Base on Balls. Jason is a precision control pitcher with a wide variety of pitches that are low in the strike zone. His pitching repertoire includes a fastball that is currently at 77 mph., a mid sixties curve and a change that is in the low seventies. He rarely allows a walk.
Jason's pitching coach is Jones College Prep Varsity Baseball Head Coach, Dave Rosene (since age 12); he is working with Jason in a graduated weight program and anticipates that Jason will be throwing in the 85 mph range by the summer of 2008. When Jason plays first base he provides leadership to the infield and has the ability to make the right play and can throw a strike across the field to nail an advancing runner.
Coach Graham Sikes ~ Camp Director All Star Camp Champs
The Notre Dame All Star Camp Champs were the participants who were playing on Team 2. This team had players from Texas and California as well as from Elk Grove High School, St Ignatius College Prep and Whitney Young, just to name a few.
Team 2 was undefeated and won all four of its games which were played against Teams, 1, 3 and 4.
Notre Dame ~ The Big East Conference
The Big East Conference is a collegiate conference consisting of seventeen universities in the northeast, southeast and midwest. The conference's 17 members (16 full-time and 1 associate member) participate in 23 NCAA sports.
The Big East was founded in 1979 when Providence, St. John's, Georgetown and Syracuse invited Seton Hall, Connecticut, and Boston College to form a conference primarily focused on basketball. Villanova joined a year later in 1980 and Pittsburgh joined in 1982. The Big East regents rejected Penn States application for admission into the Big East in 1982, since the conference at that time was only focused on basketball.
Almost a decade later the Big East became serious about becoming a major football conference and added five more schools, including four time champion Miami, Temple, Virginia Tech and Rutgers. West Virginia and Rutgers were football-only members until 1995, Virginia Tech was a football-only member until 2001, with Temple remaining a football-only member until consistently failing to attract enough fan support and vacating its membership in 2004. Notre Dame was offered a non-football membership to the Big East Conference as of 1995.
Camp Champs ~ Team #2 ~ Went 4 Wins - No Losses More To Come
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