Staff

 

 

-Former pitching instructor at All-Star Baseball Academy (Philadelphia, PA):2004-2005

 

 

-Former pitching instructor at Big League’s Baseball Academy (Newtown, PA):2005-2006 



Mark Michael
Pitching Instructor:

-1999 Senior year at Lexington Catholic - MVP of High School Baseball State Championship
-1999 Named USA Today Kentucky High School Player of the Year
-2000-2001 Pitched at University of Kentucky- Selected Freshman All-American by Collegiate Baseball
-2002-2003 Pitched at University of South Florida- Started 2nd Round Regional against #1 ranked Florida State
-2003-2005 Signed Free Agent with the Pittsburgh Pirates- Played 3 seasons minor league
-2006-2007 Spent two seasons with the Northern Independent League Fargo-Moorehead Redhawks 
-2006 Selected to the Western Division all-Star Team- Named MVP of the Northern League Championship Series
-2008-Present Currently with the Winnepeg Gold Eyes- Northern Independent League




 John Shelby

-5th Round Pick of Chicago White Sox
-First Wildcat with 35 HR's and 35 steals
-Son of Former 1st Rounder and 13 year vet/ current major league coach John
Shelby (1979)
-Cited by Baseball America as the Best Athlete in the 2006 White Sox draft class ... batted .272 (68-for-250) with eight home runs and 36 RBIs in his first professional season with Rookie-level Great Falls ... made 43 appearances at second base and 22 at shortstop ... hit his first career home run on 6/23 at Billings.



Aaron McGlone

-Mr. Baseball Kentucky: 1996
-Most Career games of any player in the history of UK baseball: 222
-Most Career games started of any player in the history of UK baseball: 212
-#2 Career Home run record holder
-Most Career Total Bases in the history of UK baseball: 444
-#2 most Career overall hits in UK baseball
-#2 most Career at-bats: 840
  
 



Jordan McPherson
Softball/Fast Pitch Instructor:

-Female Athlete of the Year (2008) University of Nevada
-First conference all team (2008) University of Nevada
-Second team all conference (2006)  
-Pitcher of the week in her conference multiple times in her career and team pitcher of the year all the years with -University of Nevada
-W.A.C. tournament MVP (2006) 
-Pitched every inning of the conference tournament (41 innings) without giving up an earned run. 
-Two NCAA appearances
-Team captain 2 years in a row
-Pre season Pitcher of the Year (2008)  
-W.A.C. tournament team

-Longwood University: Business Administration; Management 2003-2005 
-2006 Ohio Valley Conference All-Star 1B
-2006 Ohio Valley Conference Player of the Year
-Drafted in 2006 to play with Philadelphia Phillies: 2006-2009
-1B for Philadelphia Phillies 2006-2009
-Eastern Kentucky University: Business and Technology; 2005 and 2009



Greg Garrison
Sportswest Kentucky performance training

-Performance training specialist at Sportswest Kentucky who focuses on training athletes to perform to their maximum ability.
-Has trained young players and athletes such as Ryan Braun, Casey Janssen and John Meyer.
-Raised in Las Vegas, Nevada and has been in California for the past 4 years.
-Assistant coached with the Pepperdine Baseball team as 1B coach, and hitting/pitching assistant.
-Played for Metro State College from 2004-05 and earned two-time all-conference honorable mention selection.