Youth sports clinics for St. Louis schools.
Multi-week basketball, flag football and baseball clinics run in your gym or on your field. Real coaching for St. Louis students, at no cost to your school.
Parent looking to register in St. Louis?
Find St. Louis programsMost kids never get real coaching.
Students in Kirkwood, Webster Groves, Ladue, Chesterfield love sports, but many never get structured coaching before middle school teams. PE time is short, and volunteer-run leagues vary widely.
Schools want to offer sports after school, but staffing a coach, buying equipment and handling sign-ups is a lot to take on.
- No coaches available after school
- No budget for equipment
- Kids cut from teams with no path to improve
- Liability and staffing worries
We run it. You get the credit.
Our coaches run 4–6 week skill clinics in your facility. Drills look like the real game, groups are split by age, and every session is mixed-level friendly.
$0 cost to your school
Families register and pay us directly. Your office never handles forms, money or refunds.
Everything brought in
Coaches, equipment, curriculum and supplies arrive with us and leave with us.
Vetted, trained staff
FBI fingerprinting, background checks and CPR/First Aid certification for every coach.
1:14 target ratio
Small groups, grouped by age, so kids are coached instead of just supervised.
Built around your bell
Scheduled around your building and the St. Louis City and St. Louis County district calendars.
One point of contact
A local lead your principal can actually call — no ticket queue.
Vetted by the people who know what to look for.
Three steps. That's it.
Tell us about your building
Share your space, dates and bell schedule in a short partner inquiry.
We build the program
We plan the schedule, staff it and send you ready-to-share family flyers.
Kids show up. We handle the rest.
Registration, payments, waivers, coaching and parent questions — all on us.
Coaching that looks like the game.
Real photos from programs we run inside partner schools and rec centers.
Two ways this goes.
Without a partner
- Families keep asking and the answer stays "not this year"
- Staff stretched thin covering extra duties
- Empty gym after the bell
- Front office stuck handling sign-ups and money
With The Recreation Academy
- A program families brag about to other families
- Zero added work or cost for your staff
- Vetted coaches running a real curriculum
- A partner your principal can call directly
Sports we bring.
Basketball
Dribbling, passing, shooting and scrimmage in every session.
Flag Football
Routes, hand-offs, defense — full game IQ in a no-contact format.
Backyard Baseball
Hitting, fielding, base-running drills, plus pickup games.
Multi-Sport
A new sport every week so kids find what they love.
Youth sports clinics for St. Louis schools
St. Louis clinics run once or twice a week for 4–6 weeks. Each session starts with fundamentals, moves into game-speed drills and ends with play — and kids take home drills to practice.
We bring all equipment and staff, so a clinic can start in any gym, field or blacktop.
Communities we serve
- Kirkwood
- Webster Groves
- Ladue
- Chesterfield
- Clayton
- Brentwood
- Maplewood
- Glendale
- Town & Country
- Des Peres
- Creve Coeur
- Sunset Hills
- Crestwood
- Affton
More for St. Louis schools
Got questions? We've got answers.
Don't see your question? Email info@therecreationacademy.com.
Ready when your school is.
Tell us about your building and schedule. We'll follow up with a simple, no-cost proposal.