By Justin Fedich | The Selma Times-Journal

Selma University has cancelled its six-week baseball camp Monday that was scheduled to take place from Jan. 9 to Feb. 13. 

The camp, which was going to be operated by Selma University baseball coach Adrian Holloway and hosted by U.S. Baseball Academy, will no longer take place due to a lack of participation. Holloway said that after working hard to get the word out, only 12 kids had signed up to participate.

“At this point, the president of the organization said to just cancel it,” Holloway said. “There just wasn’t enough people for them to come down and put on a camp for 12 kids.”

Holloway said he put a lot of work into spreading the word, getting flyers out to schools and advertising the camp on Facebook. He said there were plenty of people asking for a baseball camp, but once registration opened, he didn’t see the same people following through and signing up.

“I really don’t know what could be done differently,” Holloway said.

“It was marketed very well, so I just don’t know.”

The camp was scheduled to take place every Saturday from Jan. 9 to Feb. 13, leading right up to baseball season. The U.S. Baseball Academy prides itself on offering a player-coach ratio of 6-to-1. With not enough players signed up, the president of the U.S. Baseball Academy decided Monday to cancel the camp.

Holloway said he will try to get baseball camps like these to Selma in the future.

“It’s good for the whole group,” Holloway said. “Everybody can benefit from it.”