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Are you in the Book Podcast

Eric Wubbena - Presidentwww.baseballbluebook.com
Join me in talking with collegiate coaches at every level. Listen to their own baseball journey to coaching, discuss what it takes to become a college baseball player, and what you can do to become ready to play at the next level. Are you in the Book? Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/baseballbluebook/support
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Episodes

Coaches Journey - Head Coach Scott DeLoach, Holmes Community College

BioMadison native Scott DeLoach is in his second season as head baseball coach at Holmes Community College. DeLoach, who was an All-State selection and state champion at Madison Central, was a standout catcher for the Mississippi State University Bulldogs and the Itawamba Community College Indians. He will bring nine years of coaching experience to a history-rich baseball program at Holmes Community College. He got into coaching in June 2011 as a volunteer coach at Millsaps College. He remained ...

May 02, 202317 min

Coaches Journey - Dillon Sudduth, Head Coach - Meridian Community College

Entering his 10th season at the helm of the Meridian Community College baseball program, Dillon Sudduth has continued the proud tradition of Eagle baseball. MCC has remained one of the MACCC’s premier programs, earning postseason berths and consistently finishing at the top of MACCC standings with an overall MACCC winning percentage of 74% as head coach. The 2021 season saw the Eagles finish as MACCC runner up and finishing ranked number 5 nationally in the country. With 254 wins over the course...

Apr 25, 202317 min

High School Coaches Journey - Coach Yokum, Head Coach - North Hunterdon High School, Clinton, NJ

Head Coach Yokum discusses his journey to becoming names the Head Baseball Coach at North Hunterdon. We also discuss the benefits of High School sports as well as the importance of academics and playing multiple sports. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/baseballbluebook/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 15, 202324 min

Why you should check out Penn State, Brandywine - Coach Gallo, Part 2

What makes Penn State Brandywine a school to check out. Coach Gallo talks about the benefits of the school, the program and the quality of baseball. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/baseballbluebook/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 13, 202313 min

Coaches Journey - Vinny Gallo, Head Coach - Penn State, Brandywine

Vinny Gallo enters his seventh season as head baseball coach at his alma mater in 2022-23. Gallo led Brandywine back to the PSUAC Tournament for the fifth-straight year, while winning 19 games in 2022. The Lions, who finished third in the conference tournament, featured four USCAA All-Americans. Brandywine reached new heights during the 2021 season, earning a USCAA Small College World Series bid for the first time. The Lions defeated Wright State-Lake in the national tournament and placed in a t...

Mar 09, 202320 min

Players Journey - Haden Erbe, Draft pick - Tampa Bay Rays

Haden shares his journey through multiple college programs, injuries and taking personal time off from the game to finally reach his goal of being drafted by a MLB club. The ups and downs never discouraged Haden, rather the adversity strengthened his resolve. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/baseballbluebook/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 08, 202314 min

What can a player do to get noticed by NNU? - Coach Hollod - Part 2

Coach Hollod talks about emails, videos, showcases and college camps. What can a player do to get noticed? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/baseballbluebook/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 02, 202313 min

Coaches Journey - Matt Hollod, Assoc. Head Coach - Northwest Nazarene University

Coach Matt Hollod coaching journey began at the U of Portland, after his collegiate baseball career. He landed his first head coach position at Wilkes College in Pennsylvania and over the past 20 years has been on the coaching staff for D1, D2 and D3 programs across the country. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/baseballbluebook/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 01, 202319 min

What makes Hinds Community College so special? - Coach Rives - Part 2

Coach Rives talks about the program and what players can do to get noticed. Rives gives a preview of where they find players and what challenges lie ahead. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/baseballbluebook/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 28, 202314 min

Coaches Journey - Dan Rives - Hinds Community College

Dan Rives was hired as the head baseball coach at Hinds Community College on April 19, 2021. He succeeds Sam Temple, who spent 16 seasons as the head man at Hinds, with Rives assisting Temple from 2006-2016. Rives was fresh off a one-year stint as athletic director and sports information director at Mississippi Delta Community College and a four-year role as the head baseball coach for the Trojans from 2017-2020. While in Moorhead, Rives and his staff helped over 40 Trojans move on to the four-y...

Feb 27, 202317 min

What does it take to play at Coahoma Community College - Coach Austin Biggs - Part 2

Coach Biggs talks about the program, his process and what type of players he is looking for. We also discuss what players can do, how they can contact Coach Biggs and whats most important in their development. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/baseballbluebook/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 23, 202318 min

Coaches Journey - Austin Biggs - Coahoma Community College

Hired in August of 2022, Coach Biggs is ready to take over the Coahoma CC baseball program. Listen to the journey he took to land a head coaching position. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/baseballbluebook/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 22, 202324 min

Coaches Journey - Michael Avalon - Pearl River Community College

Michael Avalon is entering his seventh season as head baseball coach at Pearl River Community College in 2023. Avalon and his Wildcats had an unbelievable 2022 campaign, capturing the baseball program's first NJCAA Division II National Championship. Pearl River also captured a second straight MACCC Championship along with the Region 23 Title. The Wildcats finished the year with a 45-11 record. After the year was complete, Avalon was named MACCC, Region 23, and NJCAA Coach of the Year. --- Suppor...

Feb 20, 202314 min

Coaches Journey - Chris Morris - Husson University

Chris Morris has served as the head coach of the Husson baseball program since August 2019 and has led the eagles to back-to-back North Atlantic Conference East Division and tournament championships along with back-to-back NCAA regional appearances. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/baseballbluebook/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 17, 202318 min

Neiman Family of coaches

With over 30 years of coaching experience, Coach Tim Neiman has instilled the same convictions and passion into his 2 sons. Both are currently head coaches. We discuss what makes a great program, coach and recruit. The legacy that Tim has established is obvious with their commitment to bringing great baseball to the programs they head. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/baseballbluebook/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 14, 202345 min

What it takes to play for the Nighhawks - Tom Cantrell - Head Coach, North Georgia University - Part 2

Tom Cantrell is returning for his 24th season at the helm of the University of North Georgia baseball program. Since relaunching the baseball program from the ground up in 2000, Cantrell has had much success sporting a record of 793-472 (.626). In his 24 seasons at North Georgia, Cantrell’s clubs have won at least 30 games an impressive 19 times, including each of the last seven complete seasons, and amassed 40 or more wins six times, including a program best 57 wins in 2005. In that span, North...

Feb 13, 202321 min

Coaches Journey - Tom Cantrell - North Georgia University

Tom Cantrell is returning for his 24th season at the helm of the University of North Georgia baseball program. Since relaunching the baseball program from the ground up in 2000, Cantrell has had much success sporting a record of 793-472 (.626). In his 24 seasons at North Georgia, Cantrell’s clubs have won at least 30 games an impressive 19 times, including each of the last seven complete seasons, and amassed 40 or more wins six times, including a program best 57 wins in 2005. In that span, North...

Feb 13, 202326 min

Edwin Thompson - Head Coach, Georgetown University

Thompson guided the Hoyas into a historic 2022 season that featured the program's first BIG EAST Baseball Championship appearance since 2018, the first BIG EAST Freshman of the Year Owen Carapellotti and the first BIG EAST Coaching Staff of the year following a six-win campaign in 2021. Three Hoyas earned all-conference recognition with Nolan McCarthy earning a unanimous selection to the league's first team while Ethan Stern and Jake Hyde also picked up ABCA / Rawlings All-East Region Team honor...

Feb 07, 202333 min

Jacob Tobin - Assistant Coach, BMCC (Borough of Manhattan Community College)

Tobin was born and raised in the Greenwich Village Section of New York City. Tobin has served in many roles in scholastic and collegiate sports. He began his coaching career in the Hamptons League as a volunteer assistant for the Sag Harbor Whalers. Since then, he has served as an assistant coach for St. Joseph's College Brooklyn, University of Connecticut Avery Point and Saint Peter's College. Currently Tobin is the head coach of the Sag Harbor Whalers of the Hamptons League. During his first y...

Feb 06, 202334 min

Nicholaus Strong - Head Coach, Florida National University

Nick Strong comes to Florida National from Wiley College where he was instrumental in bringing in the largest recruiting class in program history. Through the recruiting trail, Strong helped bring in over 45 student-athletes to the Wildcat program. For the fall season, he was the Pitching Coach & Recruiting Coordinator. During the summer, Coach Strong coached in the Nationally Ranked Summer program Houston Banditos organization. Before Wiley College, he was the head coach of the University o...

Feb 03, 202336 min

David Wood - Head Coach, University of St. Thomas - Houston

In the Summer of 2021, the University of St. Thomas Athletic Department named David Wood as the new Head Baseball Coach. Wood will lead the Celts into their second full season since being reintroduced in 2020 after a 51-year hiatus Wood, who was the Assistant Coach and Recruiting Coordinator at St. Edward's University for 10 years, provides a wealth of knowledge and experience for the UST Baseball program. While at St. Edward's, he played an integral role in the Hilltoppers' success, which featu...

Feb 01, 202341 min

Brooks Repking - Head Coach, Crown College

Brooks Repking will begin his first year as Head Coach after one season of being Associate Head Coach with the Polars in 2021-2022. This will mark his fourth year on the coaching staff. In Repking's year as Associate Head Coach, the Polars broke 42 school records including the programs first ever UMAC Conference Championship. They all also finished with the best record in school history as well as the best conference finish in school history. Repking has served as the baseball recruiting coordin...

Jan 30, 202341 min

Brian August - Head Coach, Wilmington University

Brian August begins his 18th year as head coach of the Wildcats in 2022. A graduate of the University of Delaware, where he was a standout baseball player, August was the assistant baseball coach, assistant athletic director, and building and grounds supervisor at Cecil County Community College prior to coming to Wilmington University. In 2019, he led a resurgent Wilmington team to a 40-18 overall record, their most wins since the 2013 season. They won the CACC Tournament for the second year in ...

Jan 23, 202337 min

Evan Brandt - Head Coach, Presentation College

Brandt comes to Presentation from Finlandia University, where he led the Lions for five seasons. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/baseballbluebook/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 20, 202341 min

Aaron Graves Sr. - Head Coach, Riverdale Baptist High School

Doctors told him he wouldn't live one month past emergency brain surgery as a teenager. But here he is. The baseball coach's survival story is nothing short of a miracle. Coach Graves is focused on developing players at the highest level. Not only in the classroom but on the field. Many of his former players are playing at the highest level of college baseball. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/baseballbluebook/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megap...

Jan 20, 202340 min

Tom Calliari - Head Coach, Penn State - Dubois

Calliari has coached at every collegiate level, after playing college baseball at DII Lock Haven University. He started his coaching career in 1996 as an assistant at DI Penn State University where his responsibilities included hitters/infielders and gameday promotions. Penn State went on to win it's first and only BIG Ten Championship that year. In his first 4 years with the baseball program, PSD Baseball won 4 regular season titles, 2 Conference tournament titles, and back-to-back USCAA Nation...

Jan 13, 202341 minSeason 2Ep. 4
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