Episodes
Aug. 24, 2024
Jean Linscott and Ken Ruoff - What is The Goal?
Jean Linscott, Ph.D. and Kenneth Ruoff, Ph.D., are a husband-and-wife team that are veterans of the youth sports industry. Their new book What Is the Goal? The Truth About the Youth Sports Industry , demonstrates how the Yout...
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Aug. 17, 2024
Josh Ellison – USA Baseball 12U National Team
We continue our USA Baseball 12U National team conversations with Coach Josh "Jelli" Ellison from Chaparral High School in Scottsdale, Arizona. Jelli is a former professional baseball player in the Mariners and Yankees organi...
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Aug. 10, 2024
Wes Brooks - USA Baseball 12U National Team
A longtime high school baseball coach, Wes Brooks will be an assistant for Team USA for the first time in 2024. Brooks has been involved with USA Baseball in several different roles for over a decade. Coach Brooks talks about...
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Aug. 3, 2024
Jay Huggins - Pioneer Coach's Education
Jay Huggins is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Coach & Registered Physiotherapist. With a proven track record of working with athletes at all levels, Jay is passionate about sharing insights that bridge the gap between ...
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July 28, 2024
Bryan Madsen– USA Baseball 12U National Team
Bryan Madsen, affectionately known as "B Mad," is the Head Coach of the USA Baseball 12U National Team. His extensive experience and leadership are evident in his approach to coaching. Madsen emphasizes the importance of surr...
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July 20, 2024
Dave Clay - Kime Performance
Dave Clay is the owner of KIME PERFORMANCE. A premiere baseball and softball facility focused on identifying and training the athlete's unique motor preferences. Motor Preference is the cheat code for player development. They...
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June 23, 2024
Becky Beaulieu - Championship Culture Coach
Becky Beaulieu has no doubt that culture coaching was what she was meant to do. She has culture coached teams such as the University of Illinois, Long Island University, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay, The College at Bro...
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June 14, 2024
Jeff Schaefer - USA Baseball & The Schaefer Baseball Report
Jeff Schaefer is a former MLB player and a Regional Director for USA Baseball. Jeff believes in developing youth baseball players, creating opportunity and giving back to the game that has given him so much. He has earned a w...
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June 8, 2024
David Klein - Speedball & Legends Camps
David Klein is a nationally recognized, award-winning transformational coach and experience designer in the baseball and softball world. David’s transformative influence extends beyond the field. He’s profoundly impacted thou...
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June 2, 2024
Ken Carpenter - Athlete 1 Podcast
Ken Carpenter is the host of the Athlete 1 Podcast. On his show, Ken examines success, failures, and life lessons in sports. He provides valuable insight and an understanding of playing and coaching team sports. Ken is in the...
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May 25, 2024
Rich Taylor - Don't Throw Strikes
Rich Taylor is the former pitching coach at Pepperdine University and the owner of The Pitching Kingdom. He is also the author of “Don’t Throw Strikes.” Rich is passionate about nurturing young pitchers and helping them unloc...
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May 18, 2024
Don Hooton Jr. - Taylor Hooton Foundation
Don Hooton Jr is the President of The Taylor Hooton Foundation. The Taylor Hooton Foundation was founded in 2004, in memory of Don’s younger brother Taylor Hooton, a 17-year-old baseball player from Plano, Texas. Taylor took ...
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May 5, 2024
Scott Steltz - Chatham High School
Scott Steltz is not just your ordinary, run-of-the-mill baseball coach. He is the Head Coach of the Chatham High School Panthers. The Panthers have won back-to-back NYS High School Baseball Championships and Coach Steltz is t...
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April 21, 2024
Bert Gonzalez - Indyball Jobs
Bert Gonzalez is the manager of the New Jersey Jackals of the Frontier League in Independent Baseball and also the founder of Indyball Jobs. Independent Baseball provides another avenue for high level baseball players to comp...
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April 14, 2024
Justin Sherman - Justintime Baseball
Justin Sherman is the founder of Justintime Baseball, an independent baseball training, softball training, and coaching business located in Westchester, NY. They partner with little leagues, recreation programs, private group...
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March 31, 2024
Catching Up With Anthony Pla
We wrap up our recordings from the 2024 ABCA Convention by catching up with Anthony Pla. These conversations have become an annual occurrence and are just one of the many reasons that I look forward to the beginning of Januar...
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March 29, 2024
RJ Farrell & Jeremy "Sheets" Sheetinger - Meritorious Men
One of our last interviews from the 2024 ABCA convention was supposed to be with USA Baseball National Team Head Coach RJ Farrell but we wound up with an added bonus to the show by inviting Georgia Gwinnett College Head Coach...
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March 24, 2024
Paul Gallo & Pudge Gjormand - Youth Baseball Summit
There are so many great baseball minds just roaming around at the ABCA convention. Paul Gallo and Mark “Pudge” Gjormand are 2 of them that I have had the pleasure of spending some time with both in Kansas City during the Yout...
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Feb. 17, 2024
Matt Rienzi - Roger Williams University
Matt Rienzi began his tenure as the Assistant Baseball Coach at Roger Williams University during the 2023 season and is the new Head Coach of the Ocean State Waves of the New England Collegiate Baseball League. Matt sat down ...
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Feb. 10, 2024
Catching Up With Jake Lindmeier - Dallas College Brookhaven
Another one of our good friends, Jake Lindmeier, sat down with us to catch up with what was going on at the convention and just baseball in general! Jake is from Dallas College Brookhaven and always has some good advice for o...
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Feb. 1, 2024
Catching Up With Taylor Valentine - Centre College
New relationships are always being built at the the ABCA Convention but another great attribute of the convention is the ability to foster existing friendships. In this episode we spend some time catching up with our good fri...
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Jan. 28, 2024
Jim Chester - Gardner Webb University
As we continue along with our recordings from the ABCA convention we move to our next guest, Jim Chester of Gardner Webb University. Jim is going into his fifth year as the head coach of the Runnin’ Bulldogs. Coach Chester is...
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Jan. 24, 2024
Carl Nichols - The Prospect Nation
Carl Nichols is a former MLB catcher that played parts of six seasons for the Baltimore Orioles and Houston Astros but what was appealing to me was his ability to teach and develop baseball players. Carl joined me on Podcast ...
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Jan. 21, 2024
Chris Gissell - Baseball Dudes
The mission of Baseball Dudes owner, Chris Gissell, is to guide and mentor players, their families, coaches, and his social media followers to a successful life on & off the field. Develop confidence. Teach the game. Instill ...
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