Brad Peterson Baseball Academy

This is my first and only comment on Unilocal.I’m taking the time to share what experience our son had with Brad Peterson and his son Troy. This program is strictly a money making business. They do know baseball and the fundamentals, but that’s about it. They do not offer any batting cage time as they don’t have a regular facility that offers any indoor training, especially during the rain seasons. They start a winter training camp at an inside facilities called FM Sports in Redmond. After the winter camp ends at the end of February, then all practices are held outside at a local baseball fields, at that point it is up to you to pay for batting cage time at one of the east side facilities, I.e. Stodds in Newport Hills or the Old Ballyard on 140^th & Northup way. If it’s raining out on a scheduled practice night, then practice is cancelled, with no make up days due to a limited amount of fields available in the Bellevue area. The practices are held during the week and held outside, keep in mind that Troy was the only coach for this team, so you can imagine what sort of practices he ran being the only coach. There were a total of 14 kids on this team, that left 5 kids on the bench at any given time. At $ 2,500 per kid, that net them $ 35,000 for one team! Out of the 5 kids sitting on the bench, there were several games where some kids didn’t play at all. Troy who is Brads son, coached this team. Although his resume indicates he played college baseball at Green River College, he did not complete his first year and never played again. Troy did not set very good examples for the kids at all, in fact he was tossed out of a game for yelling and arguing with the umpires. So before you spend $ 2,500 on this program, look around, there are several more Eastside select programs with full indoor/​outdoor facilities, two to three coaches per team for the same cost. The kids didn’t even get to keep their jerseys or warm-​up coats. The kids are issued used jerseys, used coats and used batt bags at the beginning of the season. Oh, and they don’t tell you this until after the season is over and they require you to turn everything in. One would think for $ 2,500, you would get a uniform with the kids name on it that they can keep and wear with pride, just like they did in Little League There is a reason why Brad Peterson applied and did not get the head baseball coaching job over at Interlake HS this last year when the position was open, just saying.

I am SO glad I didn’t go by the Unilocal reviews for Brad Peterson’s camp but instead listened to another mom whose son had attended the camp last year. She said her son really liked it and learned a lot so we decided to go for it.
I’m a busy working mom of 3 little kids and this is only my 3^rd Unilocal review in 6 years but I felt like the other reviews were so different from the great experience we had, that I needed to take the time to write about it.
My 6 year old son had a blast! He loves baseball and this week was so much fun for him. Half of our Little League team signed up and they were the youngest of the group. The consensus at the end of the week was that every single one of them loved it.
At first I was wondering if Brad’s name was just on the camp but we would hardly see him. That wasn’t the case at all. I saw Brad there every day and he and his son Troy really got to know all the kids and seemed to genuinely care. Troy was in charge and was not only experienced in baseball (I learned he played college level) but he was also definitely very experienced in working with kids.
My son learned a lot and came home every day telling me things they taught him. It seemed like they covered everything had good tips. They filled the 6 hours really well. He loved baseball cards, the games, and scrimmages, and just being a fun baseball environment.

After reading Brad’s baseball camp description on his website we thought it would be a great camp for our son to better his skills in baseball. We were SO wrong! Brad was present only the first day of camp and only long enough to take role and read the rules. He had two college boys run the camp the rest of the time. On his website he stated the camps were for kids from ages 6 – 12 which he did not make clear that they would all be in the same camp and drills. How can an older experienced baseball player improve skills and get «advanced» training when they are working with 6 yr olds that had never played baseball and in fact were playing in the dirt. They can’t! We contacted Brad several times by email to which he replied once that the enrollment for this camp was «unusual» and he guaranteed our older boys would still get great advanced training. They continued to play little kid games throughout the week and skills that were promised on his website were never touched. Brad has yet to reply to 4 more emails from different parents nor has he offered any kind of refund of any kind. Bottom line, if you’re looking for a baseball camp that runs like a daycare and doesn’t teach baseball skills, this is it. If you want skilled training and for your child to actually get something out of a camp, there are plenty of camps out there that stand by the description of their camp and don’t cheat people of $ 225!

Brad is a great instructor and my son loves his camps and playing on his 9U team.
He has exactly the right approach: positive, consistent and thoughtful. Demonstrating a winning attitude while focusing on holistic development.
We have been sending out son to his camps and practices for almost a year, and it has been a great experience. I regularly recomend him to other little league parents.