- 2+ seasons of college and/or professional baseball playing and/or coaching experience highly preferred but not mandatory
- High baseball IQ and understanding of the game
- Experience giving private lessons preferred
- Passionate about teaching the game and always working to improve your baseball knowledge and ability to effectively communicate
- Public speaking skills (you may coach with us at baseball camps or classes with larger groups)
- Ability to work with players of different ages, abilities, and attention spans
- Care about your clients and go above and beyond to help them develop on their path
- Patient, kind, light-hearted, and gentle personality with a love for teaching and working with kids, especially kids age 5-13
- An innate ability to teach discipline and accountability in a fun and motivating way
- Detail oriented, self-motivated, and able to work independently
- Ability to throw and catch safely and often (sometimes up to six lessons in a day)
- Ability to catch bullpens for baseball pitching lessons as necessary (not always required)
- Ability to throw decent batting practice when field space and conditions permit, if and/or when you deem valuable and/or necessary for the lesson (not always required)
Availability & Scheduling
- Strong ability to maintain a calendar and personal schedule professionally and promptly
- Must be available for at least 10 hours per week
- Available from 2pm-8pm, dependent on the time of year. Summer time and holidays are our busiest times
- Ability to consistently maintain your availability and block out times you are unavailable
*This is a top priority and must be done on your own, weekly and sometimes daily dependent on how your schedule changes
Communication & Professionalism:
- Ability to respond to texts, calls, and/or emails promptly and consistently (1-12 hours maximum)
- Present yourself professionally at all times, and maintain a high-level of personal accountability in all areas of life
- Ability to communicate professionally with parents as well as children, of all ages, sizes, ability levels, and goals sets for baseball
- Ability to always be on-time. *15 minutes early*
*Setting up your coaching station takes ~10-15 minutes
- Ability to write grammatically correct, professionally crafted, and timely texts and emails and be conscious of how you present yourself on all points of contact
- Ability to be professional at all times and in all ways
- Help reschedule lessons directly with clients if and when needed
Personal Wellness:
- A mindset of daily self improvement, take good care of yourself, your health, and your fitness
- Look the part
- Patient, positive-minded person who sees the good in all situations
All coaches must have:
- Transportation to get to and from field and to transport/store your baseball training gear
- A smart phone
- Adequate baseball training coaching aids and gear
List of REQUIRED Coaching Gear:
*You do not need to have these specific brands, but something comparable.
✔️ First Aid Kit (~$15)
✔️ Baseball Glove (you should already own this)
✔️ Fungo or adequate bat to hit grounders and/or pop-ups (you should already own this)
✔️ Bownet (~$70-$100)
✔️ Tee (~$30-$90)
✔️ Throw down bases (~$40)
✔️ Speed ladder (~$15)
✔️ Bucket of 2-4 dozen baseballs (~$50-$100)
✔️ Soft Baseballs, 6 count – for beginners (~$16)
✔️ Collapsable wagon, not required but very help$ful to transport gear from car to field (~$85-$100)
Total cost for required gear is approximately $220-$360 depending on what you already own.
List of RECOMMENDED Coaching Gear:
*These training aids are items that will benefit in performing great private lessons as you as you continue your coaching journey.
✔️ Collapsable wagon
✔️ Tennis balls
✔️ Tennis racket
✔️ Anywhere balls
✔️ Wiffle balls (normal and/or mini)
✔️ Weighted balls
✔️ Skinny bat (light version)
✔️ Skinny bat (heavy version)
✔️ Bat weight/donut
✔️ L-screen
✔️ SKLZ Lightning bolt pitching machine
✔️ Portable pitcher’s mound
✔️ Youth bat and glove (incase client doesn’t have one)
✔️ Cones
✔️ Pancake glove
✔️ Arm bands
✔️ Hitting Stick (stick with a ball on the end of it, similar effect to tee-work)
See our Amazon lists as a helpful reference:
REQUIRED list of coaching gear
RECOMMENDED list of coaching gear