Sports Camp

To learn more about payment and fees for Sports Camp, please click here.

To learn about our refund/cancellation policy, please click here.

For Baseball, Basketball, and Flag Football: we have two indoor facilities that we use and are split based on the age of the camper. The location of the indoor facility is provided in the orientation packet, it may change from year to year.

For Soccer, Tennis, and Volleyball: we have indoor facilities directly across from the 101st Soccer Field in the park. All of Tennis minus half day pm campers and all of soccer minus campers ages 10 and above will report to this indoor facility, all others will report to PS 75/ PS166, with the hopes of getting the campers on the fields for outdoor play. If it is light rain, campers will play through and take breaks under the tents.

The schedule includes one sport in morning and one in afternoon, all week long. The switch in sports happens before the campers have lunch, so that once the camper finishes lunch they go straight into their next sport. Multi-Sport campers are not grouped differently from the campers attending the sport for the whole day.

A camper is allowed to bring their own lunch even if they sign for half day. However, the camper should be picked up by 12:30pm.

For a fee of $60/week, a camper can be provided with a lunch that provides a nutritious, balanced meal catered by Ellington in the Park Café located in Riverside Park. The lunch program is not suitable for campers with food allergies, who are kosher or gluten-free.

To see our camp lunch menu for 2025, please click here.

• Check in and pick up are at 104 Street and Riverside Drive for Baseball/Basketball and any multisport that involves Baseball or Basketball first.
• Check in and pickup take place on the 101st Soccer field for programs that have Soccer, or multi-sport with Soccer as the first sport.
• Check in and pick up take place at the 102nd Street quick start tennis courts for programs that have Tennis, or multisport with Tennis option first. Check in and drop off for ½ Day Tennis pm is on the 96th Street clay courts.
• Check in and pick up take place at the 105th Hudson Beach area for programs that have Volleyball to start, or finish with Volleyball.

Yes, we offer transportation to and from camp!

Campers will be picked up and dropped off in our climate-controlled school buses. We will have a set list of stops for pick up in the morning and drop off in the afternoon. Campers will be transported directly to West 104th Street and Riverside Drive and their coaches for camp will be waiting to escort them to their sports for the day.

STOPS: We will be offering stops in the following neighborhoods:

Brooklyn:
Park Slope
Boerum Hill
Cobble Hill
Downtown Brooklyn

Manhattan:
East Village
Gramercy
Murray Hill
Midtown East
Upper East Side
Upper West Side

PICK-UP AND DROP-OFF TIMES: Pick ups will begin at approximately 7:30 AM (Brooklyn Stops) through 8:45 AM (Upper West Side stops) and drop off will go from 3:45 PM (Upper West Side) until approximately 5:00 PM (Brooklyn)

COST: Transportation is $150/week additional

REGISTRATION: Select “Transportation” at registration. Then you can select your stops through a link on your confirmation email. If you’ve already signed your camper up and would like to select our transportation option, please email sports@riversideparknyc.org.

A camper should be at camp by 9:00 am to ensure a full day of programming. With communication to the camp, we will allow youth to show before lunch at 12:00pm.

Our campers are given an evaluation Monday morning and grouped by experience level first and age second. We believe the best way to learn and improve is to play with other campers of similar ability. While we try to group friends together in the same divisions, it is not guaranteed.

Campers can change from one sport to another as long as the sport the camper wants to change into has the capacity. Changes will not be honored after Tuesday afternoon and it will cost $50 per slot changed whenever the switch occurs.

Late pick up takes place from 3:30pm to 5:30pm at a cost of $100 per week. The campers have the opportunity to get more training on whatever was learned for the day at a smaller coach to camper ratio. The coach also sets up structured sport games if there are enough campers, and for those campers who want to sit out there is that opportunity as well.

Details will be sent around Wednesday of the week before. We want to ensure enrollment has closed before sending out the details. General information about the programs is available on our website.

No, the camp is a weeklong camp, and the curriculum is based on the attendance of a week, as the program is a progression of skills culminating to games on Friday. We avoid the singular days and partial so your child can have the full camp experience.

The maximum number of campers per age group depends on the total number of campers in the camp for the week. We typically do not have more than 15-20 kids per age group to keep the group manageable and safe.

We typically have between a 1:6- 1:8 ratio depending on the age of the group.

There is no set closure date for registration, but there is a late fee incurred of $50 per registration if the registration is done after Friday the week before your camper’s start date.

• Soccer: 2 shirts and 2 shorts should be given of the same size for the week to the camper. If the camper is signed up for more than 2 weeks of camp, a second set will be given to the camper.
• Baseball: 1 hat, three shirts unless doing multiple weeks and then the parent can request additional uniforms.
• Basketball: 1 hat, 2 reversible basketball jerseys
• Tennis/Volleyball: 3 camper shirts unless doing multiple weeks and then the parent can request additional uniforms.

We offer a variety of nutritious snacks that do not contain tree nuts and are typically certified Kosher and gluten-free. Families also have the option of packing a snack to provide to their camper as well.