Are you counting down the days until summer? Wondering how to keep your kids healthy and active while school’s out? Our 2025 Ottawa Summer Sports CAMPS Guide will give you some great ideas on how to make that happen.
The capital owns a rich selection of sports camps from the all-fun variety to high-performance athletic training. Here, we highlight some of the best opportunities available with leading local sports groups, who are all partners of the Ottawa Sports Pages’ Connecting Athletes of All Means to Paths in Sport Project (which provides free sports programming to children and youth from Ottawa Community Housing neighbourhoods).
You can find out about each of them and compare dates, prices and camp locations to find the best fit for your family at OttawaSportsCAMPS.ca.
And on OttawaSportsPages.ca, we tell you all about what makes each camp special (you can click on the links below to read full columns about them). Let’s get started!
TMSI Camps
It’s the kids’ camps that double as summer vacation for parents.
Lunches, snacks, pre- and post-camp care are all included with registration at TMSI Camps, and here’s one more extra bonus: campers spend all day expending energy while playing a pile of sports.
“We’ve made it very accommodating for families,” notes Abby McCorriston, Executive Director of TMSI Camps.
Ottawa Lions Track-and-Field Club
Ottawa Lions summer camp – where your coach is an Olympian!
The Ottawa Lions Track-and-Field Club’s summer camps are led by two-time Olympic shot putter Tim Nedow, who’s taken on the club’s youth program manager role with the same zest that launched him to Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020 and Pan Am and Commonwealth Games medals.
Nedow now wants to share the same type of fun experiences with the next generation that made him fall in love with track-and-field when he was around the summer campers’ age.
Lions camps take place in a beautiful setting next to Mooney’s Bay, offering many activity opportunities beyond the track as well.
Ottawa TFC Soccer Club
Ottawa TFC camps offer a competitive and fun week with one of Canada’s top soccer clubs.
With a focus on players’ development, the camps offer a holistic approach to soccer over the course of a week. Parents and players frequently share that campers come away feeling more confident in their soccer abilities.
But the camps also serve to develop players’ leadership skills. Former Toronto FC pro player Brogan Engbers (who was also an Ottawa TFC summer camper once upon a time) is at the helm of the camps, while the rest of the staff is also composed entirely of current and former Ottawa TFC players.
Participants are able to see first-hand what leading by example means, directly from their older peers.
Kanata Rhythmic Gymnastics Club
Breanna Rich has been doing gymnastics all her life – she even went to the renowned École nationale de cirque to study aerial hoop and contortion – but some of her fondest memories stem from being a kid at summer camp.
That was when she got a fresh and exciting start to her rhythmic gymnastics journey, which has now led her back to coaching at her home Kanata Rhythmic Gymnastics Club.
Summer camp can spark a lifelong love of sport, not to mention lasting friendships, Rich recalls.
Kanata Rhythmic’s recreational summer camp is back this summer for three week-long sessions to provide an introduction to all that rhythmic gymnastics can offer.
Ottawa South United Soccer Club
George Nelms Sports Park is Ottawa’s premiere soccer facility and home to Ottawa’s premiere soccer club, so it’s no coincidence that it’s also the site of Ottawa’s premiere summer soccer camps – both for recreational and high-performance players.
OSU’s recreational camp for U5 to U12 players is focused on providing kids with the best possible camp and soccer experience. At camp, participants will learn physical literacy and how to play soccer in a fun and exciting environment.
The half-day camp runs for week-long sessions. Kids will get an OSU t-shirt and will be coached by experienced and trained coaches.
Learn more at OttawaSportsCAMPS.ca
From canoe, to lacrosse, to boxing and soccer, there are plenty more sports camps options available in town no matter your sports enthusiast’s preference. Take a look at OttawaSportsCAMPS.ca and you can discover many more great opportunities. Each camp listing has a description of activities, ages, dates/times, fees and locations, so you can find the right fit for your sports-hungry camper.
CAMPS Project gives free sports registrations to kids from low-income communities
The organizations featured in the Ottawa Summer Sports CAMPS Guide are partners of the Ottawa Sports Pages’ Connecting Athletes of All Means to Paths in Sport Project. Our CAMPS Project provides free sports opportunities to youth living in Ottawa Community Housing neighbourhoods.
The groups we’ve highlighted not only provide exceptional sports experiences, developmental opportunities and loads of fun, they are also committed to giving back to their communities as CAMPS Project partners.
Our partner sports groups receive free or discounted advertising in return for providing positions in their summer camps or seasonal programs at no cost to children/youth from low-income families.
In partnership with the Ottawa Community Housing Foundation’s recLINK program, worthy participants are identified from OCH communities across the city to take part in the opportunities. We also provide transportation for our kids to and from their sports activities when needed.
Learn a bit more about the CAMPS Project in this video: