Not at all. While PGC was founded in basketball, the Mindset Bootcamp is specifically built for competitive athletes across every sport—soccer, hockey, volleyball, track, swimming, lacrosse, gymnastics, football, rugby, field hockey, cheer, dance, golf, badminton, tennis, karate, wrestling, baseball, and more. The mental habits taught here transfer directly to any arena.
December 21 & 22, 2026
Rockway Mennonite Collegiate • Kitchener, ON
Grades 7–12 • For Athletes of EVERY Sport
Train the Most Important Muscle in Sports: The Mind
Your athlete spends countless hours training physical skills. Yet in the biggest moments, performance rarely comes down to physical ability—it’s decided by confidence, composure, and how an athlete responds when things don’t go their way.
What Parents See From the Sidelines
Does This Sound Familiar?
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Fear of failure or playing timidly when the pressure rises
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Emotional frustration or hanging their head after a mistake
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Poor body language that drains confidence and team energy
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Lack of resilience when facing adversity or tough coaching
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Struggling to stay motivated and disciplined away from screens
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Having the physical talent to succeed, yet holding back
CORE CURRICULUM
What Your Athlete Will Develop
Across two intensive days, athletes will develop practical habits in four core pillars:
Mental Performance
Building genuine confidence, mental toughness, resilience under pressure, and a positive response to mistakes.
Performance Preparation
Including visualization, daily preparation habits, and vision-casting.
Beliefs & Identity
Developing a strong identity that isn’t tied solely to a scoreboard or outcome.
Well-Being
Practical mental health tools to navigate the pressures of competitive sports.
THE TRAINING ADVANTAGE
Why Multi-Sport Competition?
To build true mental toughness, athletes need to step outside their comfort zones. In addition to interactive and engaging classroom sessions, athletes will compete in a series of fun and competitive, fast-paced, non-traditional games that are equally challenging regardless of age, size, athleticism, or what sport they play.
When an athlete can’t rely on their primary sport’s muscle memory, mistakes happen fast and adversity is guaranteed. That is where an athlete’s real mindset emerges and new mindset habits are developed.
ACTIVE TRAINING EXPERIENCE
How It Works: Outside the Comfort Zone
The PGC Mindset Bootcamp follows our signature learning model:
1 Hear it
Interactive classroom sessions where athletes learn the frameworks of elite mental performance.
2 See It
Film breakdowns showing what a winning (and losing) mindset looks like in action.
3 Do It
High-energy, multi-sport competition where athletes implement the concepts immediately.
Logistics
Camp Details at a Glance
Dates
Monday, December 21 & Tuesday, December 22, 2026
Daily Schedule
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM (Check-in begins at 8:30 AM on Day 1)
Location
Rockway Mennonite Collegiate (110 Doon Rd, Kitchener, ON)
Who Should Attend
Competitive athletes in Grades 7–12 (all sports)
Coaches Are Invited Too
Want to learn how to instill unshakeable confidence, resilience, and championship habits in your own team? Join us as an Observing Coach alongside Mano Watsa and discover how we break down mental toughness, leadership, and composure in the classroom, during film sessions, and in high-intensity competition.
Observing Coaches from any sport are welcome to attend one or both days free of charge, gaining practical mental-performance tools you can bring straight back to your program.
Spots for Observing Coaches are strictly limited to maintain an intimate, high-accountability learning environment.
Proven Methodology
Who We Are: The PGC Standard
Known worldwide for transforming players into confident leaders with winning mindsets, PGC has been the gold standard in teaching athletes how to think the game. Now, we are bringing PGC’s proven teaching methodology beyond basketball to help serious athletes across ALL SPORTS build unshakeable mental toughness and self-belief.
35+
Years Developing Leaders
175,000+
28 years. 105,000 players and 7,500 coaches
Grades 7–12
All Sports Welcome
The information you presented was ‘sticky’, easily applicable, and easy to remember. Our players will be better for it — as athletes, but more importantly as teammates, friends and as people. We will be too!
Jeff Roth— Coach Jeff Roth | St. Mary’s High School
CAMP DIRECTOR
About Mano Watsa
Owner & CEO, PGC Basketball
Over the past two decades, Mano Watsa has led PGC Basketball into one of the most respected leadership and player-development organizations in sports, personally mentoring tens of thousands of athletes and coaches—including NBA veteran Jeremy Lin. A former University of Waterloo varsity captain, UW Athletics Hall of Fame inductee, and National TSN Award recipient for athletic and academic excellence, Mano brings PGC’s premier mental-performance curriculum to Kitchener for athletes across every sport.
Frequently Asked Questions
This camp is designed for competitive school and club/rep/travel athletes in Grades 7–12 who are coachable, care about improvement, and want to gain a mental edge.
Athletes should wear athletic clothing and clean indoor court/gym shoes, and bring a refillable water bottle, a notebook and pen for classroom sessions, and a packed lunch and snacks. (Note: This is a 2-day commuter day camp; overnight accommodations and meals are not included.)
We understand that family schedules can change unexpectedly. If you need to cancel your registration:
- 3 or more days before the start of camp: You will receive a 100% refund.
- Within 3 days of the start of camp: You will receive a 50% refund.