No Doubt Showcase will feature batting, fielding and pitching workouts when it begins on June 27 at Comerica Park.
By: Jonathan Szczepaniak | Metro | Published June 3, 2023
METRO DETROIT — Calling all high school baseball players.
No Doubt Showcase will host their third annual Stadium Series High School Showcase Camp at Comerica Park on June 27 for any interested high school baseball players looking to take their recruiting and networking to the next level.
The all-day camp, which costs $200 per player, will begin at Comerica Park at 9:30 a.m. where players will take part in hitting, fielding and pitching drills in front of scouts from more than 40 regional colleges including the University of Michigan, Central Michigan University and University of Dayton.
The high school showcase will finish off on June 28 with a two-hour event at Auburn Hills Avondale High School, while No Doubt’s Stadium Series Youth Camp, for kids 10-14, will begin on June 27 with a one-hour camp at Comerica Park before finishing with a two-hour camp at Avondale.
Founded in 2020 by Josh Simonis, Gregg Sadowski, and Matt Fenech, who all played baseball collegiately at Rochester University, No Doubt Showcase prides itself on providing something ball players in the past weren’t able to access.
“Myself, Matt and Gregg, all three of us didn’t really know how to get recruited,” Simonis said. “We wanted to play at the next level. I would say to an extent all three of us got lucky in a way to play baseball collegiately, and we want to be the resource to help educate and connect people in a way that allows them to make the best decision for their future when it comes to playing college sports.”
Sadowski currently serves as the varsity head baseball coach at Clinton Township Chippewa Valley High School, Simonis coached at Wayne State University in 2019 and 2020, and Fenech has coached at the high school, NAIA, and Division 1 levels.
Launching the company in 2020 brought its own challenges, but what the three men had that few possessed was an extensive network of coaches to get the company off the ground running.
Since holding their first event at Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett in 2020, No Doubt has become a nationwide showcase company, holding baseball showcases in California and North Carolina this year.
“The advantage that we had going in was we had built relationships with other college coaches just because being in that world and working camps, we had built a network of people we really liked and (who) trusted us,” Simonis said. “It really came down to just getting the word out to more high school players. We were blessed to have great relationships with travel ball organizations and high school coaches in the area, and that was really essential to getting everything going.”
Aside from on-the-field drills at the showcase, No Doubt offers each attendee their own personal profile for No Doubt’s player database.
Players who do not attend the showcase can create a database, but only players who attend the event will have a profile picture, video from the event, and their stats such as pitching velocity, hitting exit velocity, catcher pop time and 60-yard dash time as well.
“We have a great website that college coaches log into all over the country and look at the players on there, and it’s just a great resource for players,” Simonis said. “We feel like we want you to be able to come to our camp to learn something, to walk out with some video to follow up with the college coaches who were there and maybe they didn’t see you and want to take a second look, they can look at your stats and your video. If you’re interested in a school somewhere else and they weren’t there that day, they can look at your video and stats and trust that those numbers are accurate.”
Interested players can sign up at nodoubtshowcase.com and click on the events tab to locate the Comerica Park showcase. Attendees will also receive a No Doubt t-shirt and hat as well.