Jeremy Tecktiel spoke with Josh Oltmans and Elliott Engle, the Head Coach and Assistant Coach, respectively, at Doane University. The NAIA program from Crete, Nebraska, started implementing TRAQ in July and has seen great results already. Prior to using TRAQ, the coaching staff at Doane, much like...
Sunday Morning, Rain is Falling Sundays are for rest and “family time”, which consists of me Facetiming with my wife and three boys. Throughout the week I am lucky enough to receive Marco Polos from them, as they like to show me they can hit a baseball or not hit a baseball, ride a bike down a hill,...
In our first non-school-related blog in the TRAQ series, we wanted to highlight Force Baseball. Force Baseball is a training academy for youth teams located in Ohio. They have done some awesome things with TRAQ that we have not seen from schools or many other facilities. They also had us come out to...
For this week’s TRAQ Series blog, Jeremy Tecktiel, TRAQ Project Manager, talked to a couple of members of the baseball coaching staff at Northwestern University: Associate Head Coach Josh Reynolds and Assistant Coach Dusty Napoleon. They started using TRAQ this fall and are ready to roll it out in a...
This article was written by former Driveline trainer and current Lake Erie Head Coach Cam Castro. Cam details on how to on-board both coaches and pitchers with Driveline’s programming and equipment at the college level (Twitter: @Castro_Turf) In the spirit of Jason Ochart’s recent post, Implem...
We have been using the motusBASEBALL Sensor to great success over the last year, and it has been able to bring biomechanics measurement from the lab to the amatuer coach and player. Because of our success using the motusBASEBALL Sensor, we felt it would be helpful to provide some more information on...
In the first piece of this three-part series we discussed the overall importance of in-season training for the high school baseball player, and how it fits, philosophically, within the context of the spring baseball season. Part two covered the considerations that should be taken when planning out t...
In part one of this three-part series we discussed some initial considerations to account for when developing an in-season training program for the high school baseball team. In summary, Part I established the overall purpose of strength-training and performance training in-season, and the importanc...
The competitive high school baseball season is nearly upon us. As 2017 has finally arrived, many southern states are merely a handful of weeks away from tryouts, leaving very little time left for planning. Even the northern states who observe a true winter will see their first pitches thrown sooner...
As we move into the the final weeks of the calendar year, it isn’t just the holidays that are fast approaching. High school baseball season, too, is almost here. Many high schools in the south will begin holding tryouts in the middle of January, and those in the north tend to start their seasons lat...
